In My Opinion
In My Opinion
We need more Allen Smiths
Community leader, public servant, mentor — Allen didn't just moan about problems, he tried to fix them.
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Town supervisor was right to criticize school board actions
Former South Jamesport resident Larry Simms believes the school district is looking to distract voters from more than the budget revote.
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County should protect drinking water by using sewer stabilization fund to construct sewers
The county can use the sewer stabilization fund to protect groundwater quality by constructing new sewers. Guest column by former county executive Steve Levy
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Zeldin: There must be answers and accountability for New York’s nursing home deaths
New York's policy guidance actively put long-term care residents at risk, Rep. Lee Zeldin argues. He calls for answers on the state's high death toll among long-term care residents.
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Dismantling Riverhead’s Latin program would be both a disservice and an insult
"Latin is so much more than learning a dead language. It is learning how languages work, it is a building block for English and other Romance languages, it is gaining the ability to analyze language, to applying critical thinking to texts, and to understanding so much of the basis of law, government, literature, and art not only of the past, but of today." Guest column by Dr. Virginia Campbell, a Professor of Classics at the University of Leeds in Englandand a 1994 graduate of Riverhead High School, where she first studied Latin under the tutelage of 'Doc' Greenberger.
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We need trust, not barriers
When a white man started an argument with protesters at the end of the Black Lives Matter protest Saturday, Riverhead police formed a barricade between him and the protesters, as if to protect him. Guest column by Lawrence Street.
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Gershon: Zeldin fails to stand up for veterans
This week, we received another reminder that our congressman, Lee Zeldin, fails to protect our veterans and service people when tough decisions...
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As Long Island reopens, why not ease customer concerns with ‘COVID-compliant’ certification?
Why don’t we, through our county health department, create a “COVID-Compliant” status for bars, restaurants, shops and retailers?
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A message to the community from Peconic Bay Medical Center: We want you back
Dr. Jean Cacciabaudo, medical director at Peconic Bay Medical Center, discusses what the hospital has done to protect patient safety through the COVID crisis and what the future holds for hospital operations.
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Looking into the eyes of health care workers as they face the coronavirus
A reflection by Father Larry Duncklee, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Riverhead, who has spent a lot of time visiting coronavirus patients and the medical staff at Peconic Bay Medical Center in the past three months.
