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05.15.2022 Editorials

Editorial: Riverhead residents should vote yes on 2022-23 school budget

In May of last year, voters in the Riverhead school district overwhelmingly approved a $154.9 million spending plan. The passage was a huge relief to the district, as it...

05.13.2022 Columns

Column: 30 years later, it’s still a labor of love

And there it is, 30 years in the books (or perhaps I should say in the papers). Thirty years is a long time, and yet it flew by in...

05.08.2022 Editorials

Editorial: If Roe v. Wade is thrown out, what else is in danger?

With the opinion written by Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that leaked to Politico Monday night showing the high court poised to throw out the 49-year-old Roe v....

05.06.2022 Columns

Column: Profound images of farm labor camp will not be forgotten

A photographer named Viorel Florescu died last weekend. His death came just days after learning cancer had been found throughout his body. I talked to him on the day...

05.01.2022 Editorials

Editorial: Securing funding to connect Manorville homes to clean water remains top priority

Both the Suffolk County Water Authority and Riverhead Town applied for a grant from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation to connect homes with contaminated private wells to...

04.24.2022 Columns

Column: Navigating a ‘post-pandemic’ life with a toddler

Nearly one year to the day after receiving my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, I tested positive for the virus that has upended so many people’s lives. More...

04.24.2022 Editorials

Editorial: North Fork Audubon’s extraordinary legacy

Over the years many local groups across the North Fork have done extraordinary work improving the environment, quality of life and wellbeing of this narrow and fertile peninsula that...

04.17.2022 Editorials

Editorial: Threat to Long Island waters must be addressed

In recent months, certainly since the onset of the pandemic and the disruption it has brought to eastern Long Island, great changes have taken place on the North Fork,...

04.10.2022 Editorials

Editorial: The need for volunteers at local fire departments is critical

Pretty much every fire department across eastern Long Island and many farther to the west are in need of volunteers. The equivalent of ‘help wanted’ signs sit on curbs...

04.08.2022 Columns

Column: Making our way back to spring training

Within hours of the news that the baseball lockout was over, my husband and I reserved two seats on an airplane bound for Tampa, determined to see if we...

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