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...
09.08.2024 Editorials The kind of September It happens outside, in the stillness of early morning, or as the light shifts in late afternoon and lingers in the tops of trees, that we suddenly see summer...
08.18.2024 Editorials Editorial: Farewell to the Dog Days Well, we made it. Sunday, Aug. 11, marked the official end of “The Dog Days of Summer,” which descended on us on July 3 and lasted the Biblical length...
07.28.2024 Editorials Editorial: Stay sober, stay alert, stay alive Another summer weekend on the North Fork, another fatal car crash. This sad and all-to-familiar refrain played out again Friday on Main Road in Aquebogue, just east of Union...
07.21.2024 Editorials Editorial: Our take on opinions Every once in a while — okay, once a year — we like to remind our readers that we welcome and appreciate your guest columns and letters to the...
07.14.2024 Editorials Editorial: Safe boating saves lives Along with this season of family, friends and fun come all the other things that make this time of year on the East End so memorable. And yet, the...
07.04.2024 Editorials Editorial: Lessons — and gifts — for July 4th “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, and the...
