11.28.2024 Editorials Editorial: Giving thanks and giving back What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take...
11.24.2024 Editorials Editorial: Our first responders need more help A devastating Tuesday morning house fire in Mattituck tragically took the life of Edy Herrera, a dishwasher at a local eatery who would have celebrated his 27th birthday the...
11.17.2024 Editorials Editorial: Moving on Thankfully, it’s over. That was the likely reaction of many U.S. citizens when the polls closed last Tuesday, the final counting of votes commenced and the winners of the...
11.10.2024 Editorials Editorial: Call for 2024 People of the Year nominations With election season at long last winding down (we hope!), it’s time to turn our attention to less contentious matters and cast the spotlight on the friends, neighbors, teachers,...
11.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: ‘It’s up to you’ “Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature, and judgments that overthrow the rule...
10.13.2024 Editorials Editorial: Say a prayer — and stay prepared As the aftermath of devastation of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast and the Carolinas becomes shockingly clear, and as Floridians brace for potential (as of press time) catastrophe with...
09.29.2024 Editorials Editorial: Troubling signs It’s not news that politics has become something close to a blood sport in the United States in recent years, starting at the top with national elections, and lately...
09.08.2024 Editorials The kind of September It happens outside, in the stillness of early morning, or as the light shifts in late afternoon and lingers in the tops of trees, that we suddenly see summer...
03.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: The answer can’t always be ‘no’ Across the North Fork, as development projects are proposed and debated, the nearly universal response from most residents is an immediate, “No, that is not a good use of...
02.11.2024 Editorials Editorial: From crisis comes a greater cause Each week, we try to publish stories in our newspapers that people will take the time to read and talk about with family and friends. Some carry more emotional...