08.30.2019 Editorials Editorial: Climate change is here and it is now A map of warming temperatures across the United States that ran this month in The Washington Post shows that all of Long Island has already approached a significant threshold...
08.24.2019 Editorials Editorial: An uphill battle against vaping Vaping remains a relatively new phenomenon, perceived by some as a safer alternative to cigarettes. Health officials continue to face an uphill battle to combat those ideas, specifically among...
07.07.2019 Columns Column: It’s time to test your knowledge of our country’s history It’s time to test your knowledge of our country’s history. One purpose of this quiz is to disprove the notion that Americans aren’t all that bright. The very stable...
06.29.2019 Editorials Editorial: Still more questions about CAT’s vision for EPCAL The question of exactly what Calverton Aviation & Technology intends to build at the Enterprise Park at Calverton took a troubling turn this week, when riverheadlocal.com published a summary...
06.01.2019 Editorials Editorial: Riverhead should hire independent investigator for transparency More than three weeks after allegations surfaced of an inappropriate relationship between Riverhead High School principal Charles Regan and a senior student, many questions remain unanswered.
03.16.2019 Editorials Editorial: With overdose arrests, history has been made In a very real sense, history was made again March 11 when two men were arraigned on manslaughter charges for allegedly supplying heroin cut with fentanyl to a Riverhead...
03.02.2019 Editorials Editorial: This is some week in America In this week’s Riverhead News Review you’ll read about tax abatements, lawsuits, a town police detective’s retirement after 31 years and the closure of a 64-year-old family business.
02.23.2019 Editorials Editorial: Hatred arrives on an ugly sign in our own town At some point in recent days, a sign was posted on a pole in Riverhead’s Polish Town that reads: “Better dead than red.” Under the banner is the web...