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Sports
Girls Basketball: Youth movement in Riverhead
December 4, 2013
Blue Waves placed ball, and trust, in Moore’s hands
December 3, 2013
Minus two starters, Blue Waves can’t match Carey
November 29, 2013
Education
Column: It’s the parents who need to fight Common Core
December 5, 2013
Letter: A school district preserving history
December 5, 2013
Eastern Suffolk BOCES to expand offerings, launch STEM school
December 4, 2013
Business
Riverhead Chamber honors its 2013 People of the Year
December 5, 2013
Leaders throw weight behind Woolworth project
December 4, 2013
AFTEE concert raises $70,000 in proceeds
December 4, 2013
Community
Riverhead gives warm welcome home to Afghan war veteran
December 4, 2013
Upcoming concerts, events at Riverhead schools
December 3, 2013
Gift card for campers who book a stay on Cyber Monday
December 2, 2013
Obituaries
Vincent J. Bonta
December 3, 2013
Eleanor Waldheim
December 3, 2013
Jennie Lee Pierce
December 3, 2013
Real Estate
Real Estate: Preparing your yard for the deep freeze
December 1, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
November 24, 2013
Real Estate: Invasive vine may have met its match
November 24, 2013
Opinion
Column: It’s the parents who need to fight Common Core
December 5, 2013
Letter: A school district preserving history
December 5, 2013
Letter: Concerned over addiction research, rehab facility
November 30, 2013
Editorials
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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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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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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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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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Editorial: Join the dedicated few
To all the men and women who broke their backs throughout the day Monday and into the night battling wildfires that threatened to wreak havoc on Riverhead and its neighboring communities, thank you. It’s remarkable that this massive fire was contained to some 1,100 acres when a 1995 blaze that sparked...
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Editorial: Think small to think big
Supervisor Sean Walter made a hard, earnest effort to help broker a deal that would finally bring a movie theater to downtown Riverhead, specifically East Main Street. But it appears his almost two-year effort was in vain. He revealed last week that Regal Cinemas, the only interested theater company, is...
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Editorial: The lesson Temik taught us
During the tumultuous 1960s one axiom of the day was, “Never trust anyone over 30.” But if you’re looking for insight or background on one of the greatest threats ever to the North Fork’s groundwater supplies — the pesticide Temik — better advice might be, never trust anyone under 30. It’s...
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Editorial: No one saw this county financial disaster coming?
A half-billion dollars in the red? Really? According to County Executive Steve Bellone, who has been on the job for just two months, Suffolk County is facing a staggering three-year budget deficit of $530 million. In Washington that’s chump change, but here it’s huge — close to 20 percent of the...
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Editorial: What a ride it’s been for Riverhead hoops team
The road to a high school championship doesn’t necessarily start during tryouts and those grueling early season practices. For these student athletes, it starts as soon as the previous season ends and continues throughout the year with every mile logged and with every candy bar avoided. Varsity sports — boys’ or...
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Editorial: Hope springs eternal this winter
Could it be that the groundhog got it wrong? Three weeks ago Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so we’re told, which tradition has it presages six more weeks of winter. If it’s a winter like the one we’re having, so unlike last year’s parade of blizzards, bring it on. March is still...
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Editorial: Right time to call timeout on preservation
Enough! That’s what freshman Legislator Kara Hahn essentially shouted from the rooftop of the Suffolk County Legislature at its Feb. 7 meeting when she introduced legislation calling for a 90-day moratorium on open space acquisitions. With less and less money available (since November, the county is no longer able to bond...
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Editorial: Albany must deliver real tax relief, not gimmickry
State lawmakers have a big challenge ahead of them. And politically, it may not be pretty, because it will involve taking on the same unions that often help them get elected. The unions have the money, power and influence to destroy political leaders. And the pols really don’t want to...
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Editorial: When the sky is falling, how will anyone know it?
Choose your battles. The Riverhead Neighborhood Preservation Coalition founders — and its member groups — should heed this advice. From all projects recently proposed for Wading River to an expanded R&K Precision Autoworks on Sound Avenue in Northville to basically anything that ever happens at the Jamesport Manor Inn or Jedediah Hawkins...
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Editorial: More to state aid than money
The governor has proposed far worse. Regarding school aid figures, that is. About this time every year whoever holds the state’s highest elected office produces a draft budget for the next year, and of particular interest locally is the section on aid to education. In most years the percentages rise, but...
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Editorial: Find a reason to celebrate
All indications are this Christmas will be somewhere between almost springlike and fairy-tale white, and we seem to be at the height of an “in between” holiday season on many other levels as well. On the national level, we’re between the euphoria that enveloped many at Barack Obama’s historic election and...
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Editorial: Black Friday with local color
With all the hoopla about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday could get lost in the shuffle. But this year, more than ever, at a time when our community is struggling for its very survival in a persistently bad economy, it’s critical to spend as much of your holiday...
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Editorial: Why even write a town code?
Driving across Long Island is different from, say, driving through The Bronx, upstate or pretty much anywhere else in the U.S., in that large, unsightly and quite often obnoxious billboards are conspicuously absent in Suffolk and Nassau counties. We’re sure most Long Islanders would like to keep it that way. What we...
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Editorial: Bag bill raises questions
You see them blowing down the street, catching wind like small sails before snagging on tree limbs or in hedges. Many billions of plastic bags are made and used around the globe each year; many are discarded unceremoniously and wind up as fast-moving litter. Suffolk County may weigh in on...
