07.12.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: A little common sense can prevent another surge of COVID-19 Across Long Island this past Fourth of July weekend, the beaches were packed. Saturday was hot and sunny and the beaches were a powerful attraction for people who have...
07.04.2020 Editorials Editorial: A note from our publisher We are now in Phase 3 of the NY Forward reopening plan and more and more businesses, big and small, are trying to adapt, reinvent and find their way...
06.27.2020 Editorials Editorial: Maskless and in a crowd is a bad look for Zeldin Few observers of American and New York politics could question the statement that 1st District Congressman Lee Zeldin is an ardent supporter of President Trump and all things Trump...
06.21.2020 Editorials Editorial: Historical society takes small, but significant, step It begins. Finally. Last week, the Oysterponds Historical Society removed the plaque marking a site on Narrow River Road in Orient where slaves are believed to have been buried....
06.14.2020 Editorials Editorial: This struggle will also be waged in our town On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others were arrested in Birmingham, Ala., on charges that their peaceful demonstration against police brutality and segregation violated a...
06.06.2020 Editorials Editorial: What 8 minutes, 46 seconds have done to our country This past week has been America’s most unsettling and frightful in decades. FDR once said that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” But today, that...
05.31.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: Adhering to guidelines will be critical during multi-phase reopening Well, it’s finally here: Phase 1 of the NY Forward reopening plan has arrived, with the seven metrics required for the state’s Long Island region to move into Phase...
05.23.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: Flags should still be placed at the national cemeteries Decoration Day began in 1868 as a means of honoring Union soldiers who died in battle during the Civil War. For decades, it was believed that 612,000 soldiers on...
05.17.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: This is now the time to reimagine our hamlets We are moving, step by step, toward reopening the North Fork economy to some degree. It is not yet around the corner, but as reopening moves closer, hundreds of...
05.10.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: Density is not your friend Last weekend, as the sun came out and warmed the land around us, people left their homes and went outdoors. They went shopping, they bought ice cream, they walked...
