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...
05.03.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: Tentatively, government plans for the new normal as unofficial start to summer nears During his daily briefing Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out specific circumstances under which businesses in the state will be allowed to reopen and life can begin a wary,...
04.26.2020 Editorials Editorial: COVID-19 casts a bright, if harsh, light on our society The tumultuous recent months — with America largely shut down and millions of us sheltered in our homes — has highlighted many different aspects of the society in which...
04.18.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: ‘While we have time, let us do good’ All around us, as COVID-19 cuts its way daily through our communities, our state and our country, we see examples of extraordinary selflessness in people who put their own...
04.12.2020 Editorials Editorial: During a pandemic, Holy Week arrives via internet Passover began Wednesday, April 8, with the first Seder, during which Jews tell the ancient story of the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. The second Seder was Thursday and...
