12.26.2021 COVID-19 Editorial: As year ends, COVID-19 just won’t say goodbye As 2021 comes to an end, a new and record-breaking wave of the virus we can’t seem to get rid of sweeps over the country once more. The possibility...
12.17.2021 Columns Column: There was no one quite like Seth His name never appeared in a byline or photo credit in one of our newspapers. You wouldn’t find his name in the masthead. But for more than a decade,...
12.04.2021 Columns Column: Two minutes is all it takes in a house fire We see reminders about fire safety so often that they can become like white noise. The reminders to change batteries in smoke detectors. Or to plan an evacuation route...
11.25.2021 Editorials Editorial: Holiday is a good reminder to help people in need History will record 2020 as the year when everything changed practically overnight, when in March the nation woke up to a health crisis not seen in 100 years. And...
11.07.2021 Editorials Editorial: After Election Day, ‘what do we do now?’ At the end of the movie “The Candidate,” a newly elected senator from California, played by Robert Redford, is stunned that he has beaten a powerful incumbent. He can...
10.09.2021 COVID-19 Editorial: We failed with COVID; we can’t fail with climate change Local elections are coming around again and, among other races, town board seats are open in Riverhead and Southold and the supervisor’s seat is up for grabs in Riverhead....
10.02.2021 Columns Column: A new way to look at history on the East End “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner In a voice touched with emotion, Donnamarie Barnes stood under a canopy of pine trees on a...
09.26.2021 Editorials Editorial: For this group, walking for ‘valor’ meant everything “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead Last Saturday morning, on...
09.11.2021 Columns Column: One small way to help heal after 9/11 Posing for a photo nearly 20 years ago, the young members of Girl Scout Troop 731 proudly held up a quilt they worked together to create. The red quilt...
09.05.2021 Columns Column: UFOs are no laughing matter For the record, I have never seen what I would call a UFO. Not that I don’t want to. I would love to. Beyond that, I would love to...