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...
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...
10.15.2023 Uncategorized Editorial: History is what really happened In 2021, President Joe Biden proclaimed the second Monday in October as Indigenous People’s Day, to be celebrated on the same day as Columbus Day, which has been a...
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...