06.29.2025 Editorials Editorial: Those damn kids Young people are materialistic, in love with luxury, have atrocious manners, no respect for others, are self-absorbed and obsessed with chatter. The mini-rant above, was an opinion Socrates had...
06.22.2025 Editorials Editorial: Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is everything On June 19, 1865, Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of slavery that began in Virginia...
05.26.2025 Editorials Editorial: Our duty to remember Our editorial pages 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...
04.27.2025 Editorials Editorial: Lend a hand to support our local libraries With so much attention focused on the noisier disruptions happening at the federal level — from tariff turmoil to teetering T-bills — it’s easy to overlook some of the...
03.02.2025 Editorials Editorial: Highs and lows Late last week, no shortage of area dog walkers, birders and avid fishermen were a bit taken aback by the unusually low tides along the Peconic Bay shoreline. And...
02.23.2025 Editorials Editorial: Big decision on bird flu As a community newspaper, we often have to weigh the value — or perhaps resist the temptation — of reporting on larger national issues as opposed to the hyper-local...
02.09.2025 Editorials Editorial: Collective chill “February made me shiver, with every paper I’d deliver. Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step.” Given the unrelenting barrage of head-spinning news of late...
02.02.2025 Opinion Editorial: What’s happened to civility? “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” This Golden Rule — a basic, universal principle calling for human decency — has begun to tarnish a...
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