05.25.2014 Columns Guest Column: With Town Hall, check conflicts at the door Last year, as candidates for the Riverhead Town Board, we sounded the warning bell about public officials also serving as high political party officials. Often, in the rough-and-tumble and...
03.27.2014 Columns Guest Column: A Town Board that needs some refining When I ran for Riverhead Town Board last year, I made positive suggestions that I believe might help the board through the embarrassing bickering “Honeymooners” moment it is struggling...
11.15.2013 Opinion Guest column: Time to get to work, Town Board The road signs are gone (mostly), the ballots have been scanned, the results have been counted and it’s time for the new/old Town Board to make plans to govern....
09.12.2013 Letters Featured Letter: Next time stick to the issues To the editor: I believe the voting public is always open to support a challenger who places ideas and principles above party loyalty. However, based on the primary election...
09.10.2013 News Giglio, Dunleavy and DeVito trounce challengers Riverhead Town Democratic Committee nominee Angela DeVito beat challenger Ann Cotten-DeGrasse by 501 to 229 votes in the primary race for the Democrats’ supervisor nod Tuesday. In the at-large...
09.09.2013 News Brief bios on primary candidates for town office Voters in Riverhead Town who are registered with the Republican, Democratic or Independence parties will head to the polls on Tuesday for primary day. Below is a brief biography...
08.29.2013 Columns Equal Time: There’s no doubt Republicans are scared They’re worried. Yesterday, Councilman Jim Wooten sounded retreat and the Old Guard Republicans started circling the wagons because they are worried. They are worried it might be closing time...
08.28.2013 Columns Wooten Column: Coates’ brand of politics is wrong for Riverhead I have sat back and watched and listened to all the obvious political hand wringing and bullet points presented throughout this primary season. I will say never in my...