08.30.2018 Health Experts: opioid crisis was avoidable One company, the Sackler family’s Purdue Pharma, has played a critical role in instigating an epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States that killed 72,000 Americans last year...
11.10.2012 News Riverhead ZBA member wants legislative seat Wading River resident Frank Seabrook has declared an interest in running on the Republican line for the Suffolk County legislative seat now held by Ed Romaine, who will leave...
11.10.2012 News County Executive: We’re done dealing with LIPA “We are done dealing with LIPA Headquarters,” County Executive Steve Bellone declared Saturday, joining a chorus of state and local officials from Governor Cuomo on down who have decried...
09.15.2012 Opinion Forget chiggers, folks; those are lone star tick larvae making you itch Anecdotal evidence suggests there may be a surge in the population of lone star tick larvae in the region, including Shelter Island. People who walk through a cluster of...
06.02.2012 Business Slideshow: Antiques event in Riverhead draws good crowd despite rainy start “Antiques on the Riverfront” in downtown Riverhead featured more than 30 vendors and experts available to make free appraisals. The appraisers were Lloyd Gerard of Lloyd’s Antiques of Eastport,...
03.03.2012 Business Valero gas stations help out Riverhead lacrosse team Nick Bartolomeo, president of East End Marketing, which operates a dozen Valero gas stations within 10 miles of Riverhead, posed for a photo with the boy’s seventh- and eighth-grade...
01.28.2012 News Pesticide used in 4-poster tick-killing, deer-feeding stations now legal on Long Island After many years of debate, political wrangling and scientific investigation, New York State has joined the rest of the lower 48 in approving for widespread use the permithrin-based pesticide...
01.12.2012 Opinion Column: Hating Iowa isn’t actually journalism I happened to hear an interview on NPR last week with a journalism professor from Iowa named Stephen Bloom. I’d never heard of him and I’d been unaware of...