10.13.2019 Editorials Editorial: There’s no excuse for passing a stopped school bus At a recent meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature, this startling statistic was discussed: Each day in New York State, some 50,000 cars illegally pass a stopped school bus...
09.28.2019 Editorials Editorial: Nominate your Person of the Year There are few bigger thrills for us as a media organization than our annual People of the Year awards. The winners’ stories of community service, dedication and perseverance are...
09.15.2019 Editorials Editorial: The county Legislature’s action on climate change is a very good one Last week, the Suffolk County Legislature took a bold step forward in dealing with the issue of climate change and its impact on our towns, hamlets and neighborhoods.
08.30.2019 Editorials Editorial: Climate change is here and it is now A map of warming temperatures across the United States that ran this month in The Washington Post shows that all of Long Island has already approached a significant threshold...
07.07.2019 Columns Column: It’s time to test your knowledge of our country’s history It’s time to test your knowledge of our country’s history. One purpose of this quiz is to disprove the notion that Americans aren’t all that bright. The very stable...
06.29.2019 Editorials Editorial: Greenport moves forward on mitigating ferry traffic Greenport Village is taking a major step toward helping improve traffic problems on Wiggins and Third streets, both of which lead to the North Ferry terminal and the Long...
06.01.2019 Editorials Editorial: What the Tuthills truly want is to be able to stay Members of the Tuthill family arrived on the North Fork in the mid-17th century, among the very first English immigrants to begin new lives here on extraordinarily fertile land...
05.27.2019 Editorials Editorial: Honor those who gave their lives for our freedom The significance of Memorial Day faded during the relative peace that blessed America from the mid-1970s to the turn of the century.
05.05.2019 Editorials Editorial: To cull deer herd, open more land to hunting We all know there are far too many deer on the North Fork, and that efforts to sharply reduce their numbers have had limited success. The spread of tick-borne...
03.02.2019 Editorials Editorial: This is some week in America You’ll read in this edition about a dog park being established, about dredging planned in Greenport to help boaters, about a Mattituck teen who has been selected for a...