06.13.2013 Letters Letter: Six months after Newtown, still no progress To the editor: It’s been six months since 20 first-graders and six teachers were shot to death in Newtown, Conn. While there’s nothing we can do to guarantee a...
04.13.2013 Columns Column: More tears for Newtown massacre Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry at movies (“Shane,” “Cast Away,” etc.), I cried for two weeks straight as an 11-year-old at summer camp and I cried...
01.19.2013 Columns Guest Column: A wake-up call on crime, guns in the U.S. In the wake of the horrific Newtown, Conn., mass murders on Dec. 14, a recent but nonlethal event occurred Dec. 29 in Riverhead. A 24-year-old man and his 19-year-old...
01.18.2013 News Assemblyman Losquadro under fire after gun control vote Members of a pro-gun Long Island web forum have been bombarding state Assemblyman Dan Losquadro’s Facebook page with comments critical of his vote in favor of stricter gun control...
01.17.2013 News With new laws on the way, locals scramble for guns, ammunition As state lawmakers put the finishing touches on stricter gun laws in the wake of last month’s Connecticut school shooting, county residents were working to get their hands on...