11.07.2016 Government Here’s what’s on the ballot for Tuesday’s election The Nov. 8 ballot won’t just be about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
10.23.2016 Columns Guest Spot: On Election Day, vote yes on CPF extension This Election Day, voters on the North Fork can take a huge step to improve water quality and preserve open space and farmland. Since 1999, the Community Preservation Fund...
06.12.2016 Columns Guest Column: Town Hall is asking you for more allowance Whether it’s for the cell bill or a new bike, every parent has heard the phrase, “Mom and Dad, can I borrow some money?”
04.15.2016 Editorials Editorial: The lesser of two evils Riverhead Town has quietly been in the throes of a budget crisis for several years. On the upside, the hefty surplus Supervisor Sean Walter inherited when he took office...
03.19.2015 Columns Amper: Expand preservation fund to tackle water quality On April 2, East Enders will celebrate an important milestone: The Community Preservation Fund will have generated over $1 billion and preserved more than 10,000 acres of open space...
11.12.2014 Environment Could Community Preservation Fund be used to protect water, too? While lawmakers have proposed legislation to deal with deteriorating water quality such as mandating the use of costly wastewater treatment systems, one East End legislator has an idea for...
05.31.2014 Agriculture Cuomo breathes life into farmland protection effort The state is bringing back to life a program aimed at protecting the state’s farmland, having secured $20.5 million in funding for the initiative, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier...
10.30.2013 Government State adds sea level rise as reason to justify CPF purchases Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted a law last week aimed at protecting and preserving East End coastlines that are at significant risk to climate change and sea level rise. Proposed...