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Auto Racing: Hall of Fame 100 is smooth as Silk
May 21, 2012
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May 19, 2012
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Column: Dreaming of a cabin in the woods
May 19, 2012
Letters: Keep local control at EPCAL
May 17, 2012
Opinion
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Column: Dreaming of a cabin in the woods
One of the big challenges we of a certain age face as we approach our retirement years is to keep looking forward, as opposed to behind. There is a tendency, at least in this camp, to dwell on the past and the small annoyances that accompany old age — like aches...
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Editorial: Tax cap results feel good — but what happens next?
With the lowest voter turnout in recent history in both the Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River school districts, the only logical conclusion is — as was pointed out in last week’s editorial — that the state’s tax levy cap has made voting on school budgets an even less relevant exercise than...
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Letters: Keep local control at EPCAL
AQUEBOGUE Keep local control at EPCAL For years, Riverhead’s bumbling town boards have turned away some of America’s top developers who were ready, willing and able to transform EPCAL into the economic engine it was given to the town to create. The Burman giveaway of a decade ago was succeeded by the reckless...
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Monday Briefing: Riverhead photo contest winner announced
Savedowntownpolice! No, that's not the headline of an upcoming News-Review editorial, it's the winner of our first online name-that-restaurant photo contest, which launched last week on riverheadnewsreview.com. Using the DISQUS handle savedowntownpolice, this person was often one of the first to identify what was at times some tricky closeup photographs of restaurants...
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Column: We can’t ignore kids and concussions
A few weeks ago, my dad apologized for all the smoking he did in the house back when I was a kid. “We just didn’t realize,” he said as we watched the little girl on the anti-smoking commercial cough into a room thick with secondhand smoke. I’ve heard that refrain many times...
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Editorial: Spinning our wheels over school budgets, candidates
And now we have one more reason why annual school budget votes are about as relevant and useful as an instruction booklet on programming a VCR. The same is true, unfortunately, for school board elections. Perhaps it was a wise move, perhaps not, but in either case the state’s 2 percent property...
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Letters: Impressive project? Better think again
CALVERTON Enough is enough with this town I am so happy to hear Planning Board member Ed Densieski thinks the Costco deal is a pretty impressive project. Foxwood Village homeowners have been dealing with the builder and the Town Board on this for at least five years. Does anyone know that there was...
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Monday Briefing: Planning field trips to Riverhead Raceway
After calling for a NASCAR track in Calverton almost two years ago, I was reminded by longtime Riverhead Raceway owners Jim and Barbara Cromarty there already is a racetrack on Long Island, right here in Riverhead. The couple then publicly invited me to come down for a night of racing. That...
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Guest Spot: 4 deadly sins of the Riverhead Town Board, Part II
This is part two of a two-part opinion piece. The first part ran last Saturday online and in the May 3 News-Review newspaper. The reputation of a town is determined by its leaders’ behavior. Last week, we reviewed pretense and gall. POOR JUDGEMENT We now know that the “Village” applicant awarded special...
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Editorial: Cutting water quality jobs doesn’t make sense
Long Island is known for cancer clusters, which many scientists are forced to chalk up to coincidence, mainly because it’s proven impossible to explain how so many people here are getting the same types of cancers, and at the same time. From cellphones to microwaves to pesticides, food coloring, diet and...
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Letters: Don’t turn North Fork in modern Cape Cod
JAMESPORT Preserve the North Fork Letter-writer Jim Dreeben hit the nail on the head when he said we don’t need another shopping center in Jamesport. People coming to the North Fork are not looking for another shopping center. That is more than covered on Route 58 in Riverhead. What they are coming for:...
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Monday Briefing: A weekend that transcended sports
Riverhead at it's best. That's what was on display Sunday — along with the Riverhead girls basketball team — at a parade down Main Street celebrating the team as Long Island champions. It was a first L.I. championship in Riverhead High School history for the girls team. I imagine the ticker tape-type...
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Guest Column: The 4 deadly sins of Town Board members
This is part one of a two-part opinion piece. The next will be published in the May 3 News-Review. The recent special permits vote for the Village at Jamesport project afforded a good opportunity to view our Town Board members in action. Each of four principal problems that plague this administration...
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Letters: Look to Europe to see how cars, bikes can coexist
RIVERHEAD Troy is right on bikes I liked Troy Gustavson’s ideas on a bikeway. I’ve biked Europe, where cars and bikes must follow the same road rules. I was biking in Austria when a biker turned his head and indicated with a hand signal that he was turning left. The cars stayed back...
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Guest column: What I want Jamesport Village to be
This guest column is written by Julius Klein. He is a Long Island developer and Aquebogue resident. In a letter in last week’s Riverhead News-Review, Nancy Gilbert and Richard Wines called for “civil discourse” with respect to Jamesport Village, the community I have proposed for our hamlet. Change can set off...
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Editorial: Time to get tough on tossing lit cigarettes
Every smoker seems to do it. And why not? They don’t want their cars to smell that much worse by trashing cigars or cigarette butts in their on-board ashtrays, so tossing butts out the window seems like a perfect solution. It’s not trash if it’s biodegradable, right? And the cops...
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Letters to the Editor: Stop the politics, Jamesport development and the animal shelter
CUTCHOGUE A quest for truth A democracy becomes dysfunctional when the representatives reject a sincere quest for truth. America has been mired in just such a morass for around five years now. It’s time to place country above party. To do so, our representatives must embrace the truth of an argument at hand...
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Monday Briefing: What’s the #1 cause of fatal motorcycle crashes?
I've twice taken a defensive driving class, and not a day goes by that I'm not reminded of some of the tricks of driving I learned during those long days in church basements. Whether I'm on the highway, in a parking lot or approaching an intersection, I'm constantly using my defensive...
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