While your 50+ magazine is a great resource for older residents, there are a couple of errors that, indirectly, shed light on a serious problem: the lack of affordable housing for low-income seniors and disabled people needing supervision. READ
Columns
Why wasn’t William Boken ever arrested in connection with the October 1966 disappearance of Louise Pietrewicz?
Our Main Street should be a source of pride in our community, but it has struggled for a long time now.
Over the past 20 years we have seen Route 58 grow and box stores replace our Main Street small businesses. READ
The good news, we can save the planet if we act now, but if we fail to make a concerted effort today, climate change will overwhelm us. READ
On April 20, 1979, a 13-year-old Smithtown boy named John Pius was found dead in a patch of woods behind an elementary school. His death had been remarkably cruel: He had been beaten, and stones the size of marbles had been shoved down his throat. He choked to death.
Among the Suffolk County Homicide Squad detectives whose work resulted in the arrests and convictions of four teenaged neighbors of the dead boy was Anthony Palumbo. (more…)
The Riverhead Town Board has made a momentous and apparently irreversible decision to sell 1,600 acres of EPCAL land at a giveaway price to Calverton Aviation & Technology, completely controlled by the controversial Ghermezian family. The Coalition Against EPCAL Housing opposed that action on behalf of Riverhead’s neighborhood associations and environmental organizations. READ
The leading political contest in Suffolk in 2019 will be the race for county executive, the top post in Suffolk County government. READ
At our house, Santa leaves fruit and nuts in the Christmas stockings.
We understand it’s because he has traveled all over the world, to places where oranges and coconuts and pecans and pomegranates grow, far away from our snowy world. (more…)
