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Education
Answers offered on SWR principal switch
June 16, 2013
Honoring over 700 years of experience in Riverhead
June 16, 2013
Business
Board games store set to open downtown
June 19, 2013
Grand opening of Joe's Crab Shack Thursday
June 17, 2013
Suffolk lawmaker unveils vision for Riverside
June 15, 2013
Community
Rain threatens local strawberry crop
June 12, 2013
Official flag rises over Flanders, designer honored
June 11, 2013
'Idol' winner leaves audience 'Breathless'
June 9, 2013
Obituaries
Jeanne St. Andre Merkel
June 18, 2013
George E. Tuthill
June 18, 2013
Kathleen A. Wells
June 18, 2013
Opinion
Kelly Column: You don't see me going crazy over corn
June 15, 2013
Equal Time: The North Fork is indeed my home
June 14, 2013
Editorial: Don’t undermine preservation efforts
June 13, 2013
Opinion
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Kelly Column: You don’t see me going crazy over corn
Did you know that strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside? Or that strawberries are a member of the rose family indigenous to every continent save Africa and Australia plus New Zealand? Or that if you took the more than one billion strawberries California produces each year and...
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Equal Time: The North Fork is indeed my home
In politics, there is an old axiom about news coverage: It doesn’t matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right. Even so, I want to set the record straight. Last week, without bothering to call me for comment prior to publication, Times/Review executive editor Grant...
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Editorial: Don’t undermine preservation efforts
Riverhead Town should not dare to scuttle Suffolk County’s plans to purchase 15 acres of farmland along Sound Avenue for preservation. The property stretches north into the Reeves Park neighborhood, and Reeves Park residents — as well as others across the North Fork and all Suffolk County — have made it...
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Featured 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 tragedy like this will not happen again, Congress decided to do nothing. In a few moments 26 died and our Congress decides...
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Column: No, sir, you are a resident of Brooklyn
The residency requirement to run for New York State Assembly is defined very briefly on the NYS Board of Elections website. In fact, the definition is only one sentence long. It says: “You must be a resident of the state for five years and a resident of the district for 12...
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Editorial: Accomplishing so much in Riverhead schools
Each year, officials release a list of the Riverhead School District’s top 15 students, determined by grade-point average. The list also includes details about the graduating class valedictorian and salutatorian and lists each of the 15 students’ college of choice. And every year, it seems, the list is more impressive. The...
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Column: A reminder of why we do what we do
As someone who grew up around newspapers, I was always fascinated by how they’d get to your doorstep each day. I can remember as a young kid watching with wonder as my father — who was a graphic artist at Newsday — would draw an ad from scratch with his hand....
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Editorial: Bellone made good on promises — we must too
The fight against placing two trailers for homeless sex offenders on the East End in 2007 was never a NIMBY protest. It was a pure and good fight. With good results. Locals here acknowledged early on that both sexual assaults and the management of convicted offenders once they are out of...
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Letter: The lights are bright enough in Riverhead
To the editor: If the new LED sign on the Suffolk Theater downtown isn’t enough to distract your strolling or driving, get ready for another on Route 25 at the new All Star bowling alley. Apparently the owners have applied for a variance to get an electronic sign installed in front...
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Column: My own version of ‘Grumpy Old Men’
Yes, it’s true. Somehow I’ve become a Grumpy Old Man and my only excuse is the inexorable acceleration of time. This grumpiness might actually have started a few years ago, but I didn’t begin noticing it as a well-ingrained personality trait until recently. Sometimes it manifests itself first thing in the...
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Editorial: Don’t scapegoat Sandy to save a buck
Our often unsung town workers have worked hard since Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the town’s bay and Long Island Sound coastlines last fall — be it through clearing debris or repairing infrastructure — to get the beaches ready for the summer season. The town also dredged and dumped sand...
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Editorial: Impressive police work during a busy night
Alarm bells rang out through Polish Town Monday night as ambulances and town and state police cars — their lights and sirens blaring — descended on several crime scenes within minutes, and just a few blocks, of one another. It was no terror scare, but it was no drill either. Police...
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Letter: Thank you, teachers
To the Editor: With graduation approaching, I cannot forget the dedication, inspiration and guidance of specific teachers and programs that tremendously benefited our son, Carlos. While I have often railed against the unsustainability of the benefits and retirement packages at the expense of the beleaguered taxpayer, as well as the general edge...
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Editorial: OK budgets, reject Riverhead propositions
The Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River 2013-14 school budget proposals that go to voters next Tuesday contain year-to-year tax levy increases that, while above 2 percent, fall below the individualized state-mandated tax increase caps for each of the districts. Officials in these districts took different approaches to staying under their respective caps. In...
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Pickersgill to zip liner: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
I read John Finnegan's column about his experience trying to site his zip line in downtown Riverhead. I thought the column was nasty and unnecessary. It reminded me of two truths learned while growing up. One, never be a cry baby. Two, as my father would say, don't let the door hit...
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Guest Spot: Zip line guy on what downtown looks like to him
I spent the weekend thinking about Urban Jungle Zip Lines, Riverhead, and how I misjudged a couple things. I thought that a clean and green, and temporary, attraction by the riverfront would be appreciated and welcome as a great way to build awareness of the Peconic River and its natural beauty. I...
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Column: Paying my dues — a tale of three unions
With the state Legislature upping the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour, and fast food workers agitating for a union, it brought to mind my own experience scuffling at low-paying jobs — and the three union cards I carried. I’ve seen unions from three distinct angles: the weird,...
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Riverhead BOE responds to bus garage concerns
To the Editor: We write in response to critics of our approach to address longstanding structural deficiencies at the bus garage. We understand the anger that some feel about the proposal; and with those concerns in mind, we want to explain our reasoning. Without a doubt, the existing bus garage will need...
