01.05.2025 Editorials Editorial: Unsung heroes In this week’s paper, we are proud to reveal our 2024 People of the Year honorees, an annual celebration of the public officials, civic leaders, educators, business owners and...
12.22.2024 Editorials Editorial: What is up with the drones? As community journalists, the most important part of our job is to do our utmost to ensure we provide accurate information — because a well-informed community is better able...
12.16.2024 Editorials Editorial: Thank you for your nominations! As we do each year, we asked you, our readers, to send us nominations for our 2024 People of the Year awards and, as usual, you came through —...
12.08.2024 Editorials Editorial: The gift of charity As the holiday season picks up steam — and the attendant barrage of party invites, festive light shows and can’t miss shopportunities accelerates — it can be easy to...
11.28.2024 Editorials Editorial: Giving thanks and giving back What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take...
11.24.2024 Editorials Editorial: Our first responders need help A devastating Tuesday morning house fire in Mattituck tragically took the life of Edy Herrera, a dishwasher at a local eatery who would have celebrated his 27th birthday the...
11.17.2024 Editorials Editorial: Moving on Thankfully, it’s over. That was the likely reaction of many U.S. citizens when the polls closed last Tuesday, the final counting of votes commenced and the winners of the...
11.10.2024 Editorials Editorial: Call for 2024 People of the Year nominations With election season at long last winding down (we hope!), it’s time to turn our attention to less contentious matters and cast the spotlight on the friends, neighbors, teachers,...
11.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: ‘It’s up to you’ “Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature, and judgments that overthrow the rule...
10.29.2024 Editorials Election 2024: Riverhead News-Review Endorsements U.S. CONGRESS: JOHN AVLON East End voters are fortunate to have two strong and qualified candidates vying to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives for the next...
10.20.2024 Editorials Editorial: Tipping the tax ‘cap’ Late last month, officials in both Riverhead and Southold presented preliminary budget proposals for 2025. At the time, Riverhead Town Supervisor Tim Hubbard described the plan “as a basic,...
10.13.2024 Editorials Editorial: Say a prayer — and stay prepared As the aftermath of devastation of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast and the Carolinas becomes shockingly clear, and as Floridians brace for potential (as of press time) catastrophe with...
09.29.2024 Editorials Editorial: Troubling signs It’s not news that politics has become something close to a blood sport in the United States in recent years, starting at the top with national elections, and lately...
09.22.2024 Editorials Editorial: Celebrating our true colors In a time when so much energy is being focused on how divided we seem to be as a country — and notions of who should live here or...
09.15.2024 Editorials Editorial: RIP agri-resorts After months of heated debate, the much maligned proposal to rezone a large swath of the Sound Avenue corridor linking Riverhead and Southold to allow for the development of...
