Guest Column
Guest Column
How to be happier in 2025
There is an easy way to feel better, reduce stress and be happier: Do something for someone else.
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Until all shelters are emptied, breeding animals is irresponsible
As long as there is a demand for purebred animals, breeders will continue to churn them out. Until all shelters are emptied, until no animals have to die or look through kennel bars for years because no one will adopt them, breeding animals is irresponsible.
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As I was saying … when I got kicked out of the last Riverhead Town Board meeting
In this guest column, Ron Hariri of Aquebogue spells out what he was trying to say during the Nov. 7 town budget hearing when he was ejected from the meeting.
Guest Column
In the Riverhead school district, we don’t need to be ‘fixed.’ We need to be supported — and led.
After the years of turmoil we have had at the district office leading up to today, we don’t need to be fixed. We need to be supported — and we are dying to be led. Guest column by Riverhead teachers union president Gregory Wallace
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Proposition 2: Suffolk’s future is in your hands
Guest column: Suffolk County voters have a once in a generation chance to safeguard the future of the county’s surface and groundwater in Proposition 2.
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From conservative values to a one-man circus
The Republican Party of old wasn’t without its flaws, but at least it had an identity beyond one man’s hunger for the spotlight. What’s left now is a hollowed-out shell, and all that rattles inside is Trump’s name, repeated endlessly like a mantra, echoing in a once-grand hall that’s starting to look more like a funhouse.
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Unity in diversity, just like a bowl of gumbo
In a good pot of gumbo, no one ingredient overtakes another, not one spice dominates another, but there's just enough of each individual offering so that we all may sup peacefully, even though some of the ingredients are not what we brought to the table.
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‘Why doesn’t she just leave?’
Many people ask why victims of domestic abuse don't 'just leave' the relationship. From the outside, leaving seems like the obvious solution. But the truth is, leaving is far from easy.
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Selling out Riverhead’s future, one bad idea at a time
Allowing resorts and spas on the Sound is just the latest bad idea advanced by the current Town Board, which seems more interested in enriching developers than protecting the town and its taxpayers.
Guest Column
Resorts on the Sound are wrong for Riverhead
Residents must show up at the Riverhead Town Board meeting Wednesday afternoon and tell the board not to adopt a comp plan that allows Sound-front resorts. Guest column by Tom Hughes of Northville.
