09.24.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: Results of poll on letters about national issues About two weeks ago, we posted a poll asking our readers to vote on whether we should ban letters on national issues. We gave readers two options: Yes, letter...
08.20.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: Brookhaven election could change local landscape Whenever an elected town official resigns mid-term it has the potential to drastically shake up the political landscape in that town. It’s rare, however, that such a resignation can...
07.23.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: Some did, others didn’t take advantage of tragedy This weekend I spent a lot of time watching television news and reading various internet and print accounts of the movie theater shooting tragedy in Aurora, Colorado. In fact,...
07.16.2012 News Monday Briefing: Wholesome happenings (mostly) keep websites popping Despite what most people think, newspaper reporters are not ghouls. Most of us don’t get a charge out of sad news, like fires, car wrecks, drownings and the like....
03.12.2012 News Monday Briefing: The Blue Waves are the hottest ticket in town For about half the cost of going to a movie, my wife and I were kept entertained Friday night by the show that is the Riverhead Blue Waves girls...
02.27.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: Can Blue Waves girls hoops win a state title? Basketball is one of the toughest high school sports to end your season on a win and the Riverhead girls basketball team is about to find out why. The...
02.20.2012 Columns Monday Briefing: The only place where contests are held for Oscar picks and naming a wild turkey Maybe the Polish eagle should be changed to a turkey. That’s one joke Polish Town resident and News-Review photographer Barbaraellen Koch emailed me over the weekend, in a thread...
02.13.2012 News Monday Briefing: Winning Take Five ticket purchased at Handy Pantry in Mattituck Two months ago, a girl I went to high school with won a $208 million Megamillions jackpot with a ticket she bought at the King Kullen up the road...
