10.30.2022 Editorials Editorial: Vote as if your country’s well-being is on the ballot Every election in America is critical, whether at the national, state or local level. Voting is the engine that drives the democratic process. The oft-repeated expression “all politics is...
10.31.2020 Columns Guest Column: We can’t vote yet, so please don’t let your chance slip by An urgent request from the sixth- and seventh-graders of the Peconic Community School: We need you to vote. We can’t, but you CAN! Your vote can change our country....
09.25.2020 Columns Guest Column: When it comes to voting, the devil is in the details By now, many of us feel like the prisoner in Frank R. Stockton’s 1882 tale, “The Lady or the Tiger?” It’s about an innocent hostage, barbarically tossed into the...
06.27.2018 Government See how voters in Riverhead, Southold voted in primary Perry Gershon, 56, of East Hampton won Tuesday’s Democratic primary race for the 1st Congressional District with 35.5 percent of the vote, according to results collected by the Suffolk...
02.18.2018 Editorials Editorial: New York to begin early voting as way to increase participation In this space last July, we commended an executive order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to expand voter registration opportunities in New York. The executive order directed every state...
11.06.2017 Election 2017 Here’s where to vote in Riverhead Polling places in the Riverhead area will be at the following locations. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. everywhere.
09.15.2017 Government Efforts underway to increase blue votes across East End A grassroots effort is underway among political activists to persuade second-home owners across the North Fork to register to vote here rather than at their primary residences. The goal,...
11.10.2016 Government Trump wins big in Riverhead Town, crushing GOP’s 2012 margin The wave of voters that President-elect Donald Trump rode into office this Election Day clearly swept through Riverhead, where the unlikely Republican candidate trounced Democrat Hillary Clinton by nearly...