03.10.2024 Editorials Confronting the realities of ‘affordable’ housing Last week’s Greenport Village Board work session on the issue of affordable housing in the small municipality saw members engage in a critical and much-needed discussion about a very...
03.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: The answer can’t always be ‘no’ Across the North Fork, as development projects are proposed and debated, the nearly universal response from most residents is an immediate, “No, that is not a good use of...
02.25.2024 Editorials Editorial: Maybe the sky is falling — so now what? A look at today’s real estate listings for single-family houses on the North Fork can take your breath away. The numbers suggest a new economic reality has taken hold...
02.18.2024 Editorials Editorial: Land — and Native burial sites — should be preserved There was considerable talk about the region’s critical environmental issues at last week’s roundtable convened by state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and attended by other key officials and...
02.11.2024 Editorials Editorial: From crisis comes a greater cause Each week, we try to publish stories in our newspapers that people will take the time to read and talk about with family and friends. Some carry more emotional...
02.04.2024 Editorials Editorial: What the present means for the future of farming In our October Northforker magazine story about the last remaining potato farmers on the North Fork, we told the story of Eric Wells. He grew up on farmland in...
01.28.2024 Editorials We welcome your letters — but let’s be civil We’d like to remind our readers of some basic rules for writing letters to the editor for publication in the Riverhead News-Review. First, we want to stress that we...
01.07.2024 Editorials Editorial: To our readers in 2024 The beginnings of Times Review Media Group reach back to 1857, when the North Fork was a very different place. That year, The Suffolk Times was born in the...
12.17.2023 Editorials Editorial: People who power small businesses are leaving N.Y. A new report by the Manhattan-based Fiscal Policy Institute reads like the proverbial canary in the coal mine story — something that signals danger ahead to anyone paying attention....
12.10.2023 Editorials Editorial: Indicted officials should not hold public office On Friday, George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives by a vote of 311 to 114. That 114 congressional representatives could vote against expelling Mr. Santos is...
12.03.2023 Editorials Editorial: A veteran is buried and the American spirit is rekindled In our newspapers last week, we wrote about the burial in Calverton National Cemetery of a soldier, Sgt. Bernard Sweeney, whose remains were first found near where he went...
11.26.2023 Editorials Editorial: Gov. Hochul once again snubs Native history In June, we published an editorial praising the New York State Legislature, and in particular Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk), for the unanimous passage of a bill that restored...
11.19.2023 Editorials Moving forward, all politics must be local In our bitterly divided country, where many politicians believe their role is to smear the other side or find some way of bringing opponents to their knees, and where...
10.08.2023 Editorials Editorial: Banned Books Week is unhappily upon us The first week of October has been set aside nationally as 2023’s Banned Books Week. The week, and the issue itself, will be recognized at Riverhead Free Library Saturday,...
10.01.2023 Editorials After drugs bust, keeping our eyes — and our minds — open The arrests and subsequent indictments of dozens of drug offenders across Suffolk County earlier this month is a huge win for local law enforcement. The dismantling of three distinct...