06.27.2026 Editorials A war hero’s final honor This Fourth of July, Riverhead will celebrate freedom one day early — not with fireworks, but with a homecoming long overdue. On Friday, July 3, Pfc. Garfield M. Langhorn...
06.20.2026 Editorials Editorial: Father’s Day We have a friend who told us a story about his father. He and his younger brother were never embraced by him, although his sisters were always hugged. The...
06.13.2026 Editorials Editorial: State owes us on-time budgets For years there has been an inconsistency in the requirements New York State has for its budget, while imposing strict deadlines school districts must meet. Only for a few...
06.06.2026 Editorials Editorial: Sublime summertime “Almost heaven, West Virginia,” John Denver sang, leading us to believe that he probably never experienced Riverhead in the summer. It gets hot, with breezes off the Peconic River,...
05.16.2026 Editorials Editorial: School budgets face voters May 19 East End voters head to the polls Tuesday, May 19, with school districts trying to keep tax increases down without hollowing out the programs families expect from their schools....
05.09.2026 Featured Story Editorial: Mother’s Day Every year in early May, we devote space here to pay tribute to mothers. (Fathers, you’ll have to wait for June, but we won’t forget you, either.)And at this...
05.02.2026 Editorials Editorial: A titan of the movement Consider the money to be made by converting 100,00 acres of pristine Suffolk County woodlands into housing, shopping malls and roads to serve residents and visitors. It would be...
04.25.2026 Editorials Editorial: Change continues, business by business Boats sat stacked in their racks at Port of Egypt Marine in Southold last weekend, a tight grid of hulls waiting for launch as gray clouds dulled what had...
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