07.16.2023 Editorials Editorial: Training, teamwork and dedication saved lives In less than an hour on July 6, the lives of two teenagers floating in Long Island Sound were saved by a heroic group of first responders who worked...
07.02.2023 Editorials Editorial: Will tougher code create more year-round rentals Under current Southold Town code, homeowners who want to rent out a property can only do so for a minimum of 14 days. It was hoped that this minimum...
05.07.2023 Editorials Editorial: Two local groups are saving land and history Across the East End, the Peconic Land Trust has preserved more than 14,000 acres of fertile farmland and open space. Our farmland is the rich loam the glaciers left...
04.28.2023 Editorials Editorial: Fentanyl-related arrests hark back to local horrors In August 2021, a scourge of overdoses traced to fentanyl-laced cocaine led to six deaths in Southold Town and Shelter Island. Four of them occurred on just one day....
04.21.2023 Editorials Editorial: Senate Bill 4804 would help control local deer herd Estimates vary of the numbers of white-tailed deer in Riverhead and Southold towns, but a good guess from people who study the issue is approximately 7,000. Perhaps 3,000 of...
04.14.2023 Editorials Editorial: Some ground rules for letters and guest columns Every once in a while we want to remind our readers that we welcome your guest columns and letters to the editor. Even as we say we welcome them,...
04.07.2023 Editorials Editorial: State DEC report on minority communities is important It might not come as a surprise to many who closely follow environmental issues impacting the region, but state officials have formally designated 87 mostly minority neighborhoods in 40...
03.31.2023 Editorials Editorial: Say what you will, but let’s keep it civil It’s been a rough couple weeks for civil discourse on and around the North Fork. On Tuesday, the vice president of the Riverhead Central School District Board of Education,...
03.24.2023 Editorials Editorial: What will the new village administration do now? At the end of the movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford, who plays a non-politician who runs for the U.S. Senate in California, turns to his political consultant, played by...
03.17.2023 Editorials Editorial: Censorship won’t create the America that lives on hope So far, thankfully, schools and libraries on the East End have not been targeted by self-appointed watchdogs who take it upon themselves to tell librarians to remove “objectionable” books...
