09.05.2026 Editorials Editorial: The hard work behind Labor Day Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer weekend celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover...
08.29.2026 Editorials Editorial: Tick tactics for the front line Terms such as “a war” or “an explosion” to describe social conditions or medical emergencies are often used by public officials and, yes, journalists — at times to sensationalize...
08.22.2026 Editorials Editorial: You’re being watched The novelist/prophet George Orwell famously created a police state with an authoritarian dictator running a country where surveillance was a method to ensure total mind and body control of...
08.15.2026 Editorials Editorial: Eagle shows Greenport its past — and its future For a few glorious days last weekend, Greenport looked like Greenport ought to look. Blue skies and warm breezes greeted families crowding into Mitchell Park and the docks to...
08.08.2026 Editorials Editorial: August Hang in there, we’re almost out of the woods. Or should we say out of the kennel? Next Tuesday, Aug. 11, we’ll have come through “the dog days of...
08.01.2026 Editorials Editorial: SCWA’s better route still leaves Riverhead in a rut Give the Suffolk County Water Authority credit: It listened. It listened at last enough to recognize that digging up...
07.25.2026 Editorials Editorial: Bring back Claudio’s Amalfi at Claudio’s flamed out quicker than a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. In just one week,...
07.18.2026 Editorials Editorial: Patriot games Patriotism has become another political test. These days, people are judged not by how they treat their neighbors or...
07.11.2026 Editorials Editorial: Rising to the challenge The Fourth of July in Riverhead started with the banging of drums and ended with a freak storm that tested the resolve of the town’s local heroes. The day...
07.04.2026 Editorials Editorial: Happy 250th, America On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation: “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real...
06.27.2026 Editorials A war hero’s final honor This Fourth of July, Riverhead will celebrate freedom one day early — not with fireworks, but with a homecoming long overdue. On Friday, July 3, Pfc. Garfield M. Langhorn...
06.20.2026 Editorials Editorial: Father’s Day We have a friend who told us a story about his father. He and his younger brother were never embraced by him, although his sisters were always hugged. The...
06.13.2026 Editorials Editorial: State owes us on-time budgets For years there has been an inconsistency in the requirements New York State has for its budget, while imposing strict deadlines school districts must meet. Only for a few...
06.06.2026 Editorials Editorial: Sublime summertime “Almost heaven, West Virginia,” John Denver sang, leading us to believe that he probably never experienced Riverhead in the summer. It gets hot, with breezes off the Peconic River,...
05.30.2026 Editorials Editorial: Staying safe in summer 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 with...
05.25.2026 Opinion Editorial: On Memorial Day, remember the cost of forever wars This page applauded President Donald Trump’s move, during his first term, to extricate U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan. And we applauded President Joe Biden for making the policy real,...
05.16.2026 Editorials Editorial: School budgets face voters May 19 East End voters head to the polls Tuesday, May 19, with school districts trying to keep tax increases down without hollowing out the programs families expect from their schools....
05.09.2026 Featured Story Editorial: Mother’s Day Every year in early May, we devote space here to pay tribute to mothers. (Fathers, you’ll have to wait for June, but we won’t forget you, either.)And at this...
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