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03.30.2020 COVID-19

Editorial: The story of a community that got it done

If we listen to each other in our communities, if we tune out the blather coming out of the nation’s capital and if we do our best to support...

03.24.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Be safe, everyone. Be strong.

We are just at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis that has arrived in our country, our towns and our families. While there are still those who think the...

03.06.2020 COVID-19

Editorial: We need to hear from real experts on COVID-19

The coronavirus is here, with 22 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in New York State as of Thursday and more than 160 nationwide. So far there have been 11 deaths,...

03.01.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Voters’ message to Riverhead School District — No way

Now what? At elementary school polling stations Tuesday, Riverhead school district voters made it abundantly clear they had little to no appetite to dish out money to fund a...

02.19.2020 Editorials

Editorial: A tragedy beyond comprehension

It is very hard to read about the death of Thomas Valva, the facts are so horrific, so completely and utterly inhuman. The cruelty is unimaginable. This 8-year-old boy...

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02.16.2020 Editorials

Editorial: We can do even more to understand our past beyond Black History Month

Last August, The New York Times published its 1619 Project, a magazine-length examination of how slavery powered the early American economy and, over the generations, how it shaped our...

02.08.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Legislator’s effort to address rising seas is vital to our future

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski, who grew up on a Peconic farm that remains in his family, is tackling the issue of climate change — what it will bring...

02.02.2020 Editorials

Editorial: ‘Never again’ has not worked out very well

Last Sunday afternoon, in an 18th-century English-built church in Cutchogue, the events that occurred in eastern Europe in the mid-20th century were on full display. History came to the...

01.26.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Congressman becomes more than a mere footnote in history

Congressman Lee Zeldin, an ardent supporter of President Trump, has joined the president’s legal team as impeachment moved to the Senate for what the Constitution characterizes as a trial,...

01.19.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Investment in Brookhaven National Laboratory is win for entire region

Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton is one of the country’s premier scientific research facilities. Co-managed by Stony Brook University, it has attracted the world’s best scientists to Long Island....

01.05.2020 Editorials

Editorial: Do our synagogues now need full-time security?

The recent machete attack on Hasidic Jews at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, N.Y., was another reminder of the remarkably ugly times we are living in and yet another...

12.23.2019 Editorials

Editorial: An era between Post Truth and No Truth

This editorial is not really about anything. Or maybe it’s a year-end gathering of a few different strands of thought, or a look back from the end of a...

12.15.2019 Editorials

Editorial: Town Board taking right steps to clarify special events regulations

In an effort to remedy a troublesome problem concerning regulations for special events permits, the Town Board will meet next week to clear up the confusion and set new...

12.08.2019 Editorials

Editorial: Following bay scallop die-off, what's next?

When bay scallop season opened last month, the worst fears of baymen who are experienced observers of marine life in our waters were confirmed: There weren’t any. Somehow these...

11.28.2019 Editorials

Editorial: A good day to express our gratitude

For many reasons, it feels like a particularly good time for the country to take a day off from the turmoil and celebrate Thanksgiving. To sit around the table...

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