06.15.2025 Editorials Editorial: Father’s Day 2025 In America, many families have, over several generations, seen a sea of change in how masculinity is defined. The changes in the way fathers have taken active roles in...
03.09.2025 Editorials Editorial: Checking the trolls At the height of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, the term “outside agitator” became something of a rallying cry for opponents of equal rights. It was...
02.23.2025 Editorials Editorial: Big decision on bird flu As a community newspaper, we often have to weigh the value — or perhaps resist the temptation — of reporting on larger national issues as opposed to the hyper-local...
02.09.2025 Editorials Editorial: Collective chill “February made me shiver, with every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step.” Given the unrelenting barrage of head-spinning news of late...
02.02.2025 Editorials Editorial: What’s happened to civility? “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This Golden Rule — a basic, universal principle calling for human decency — has begun to tarnish a...
01.26.2025 Editorials Editorial: Sounding the alarm The numbers are in, and the news isn’t pretty. Virtually all of the area’s volunteer fire departments reported an increase in emergency call responses in 2024, with several hitting...
12.15.2024 Opinion Editorial: Thank you for your nominations! As we do each year, we asked you, our readers, to send us nominations for our 2024 People of the Year awards and, as usual, you came through —...
07.16.2023 Opinion 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 Opinion 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...