Opinion
Guest Column
Accountability matters
Leadership requires more than holding office — it requires honesty, integrity, and the willingness to take responsibility when words or actions cause harm.
Letters
Merrifield’s double standard
Letter: A board member questioning a speaker's political affiliation at a public meeting is offensive — even more so when aimed at a political foe.
Guest Column
If this is a farm, what isn’t?
A proposed Calverton cannabis facility raises a larger question: How far can government stretch the meaning of “farm”? Guest column.
Letters
Many questions yet unanswered about proposed cannabis cultivation facility on Middle Road
To the Editor:The 31,000 square foot “greenhouse” proposed for 1458 Middle Road by Brother Bear Cannabis is an affront to all residents...
Denise Civiletti
Let’s make public hearings less painful
Riverhead can make public hearings more useful, less contentious and more efficient by explaining them clearly before residents speak.
Letters
What would seizing the science center’s Main Street property actually accomplish?
Why are local taxpayers being asked to spend public money to destroy a 30-year-old educational institution that has already served more than 375,000 children and families? Letter to the editor.
Guest Column
When local businesses matter most
At a locally owned business, decisions are made right here, by people who know the customers by name and understand that a business is not just a line on a spreadsheet. It's part of a community.
Letters
We need to stand up against racism
To the Editor:
Re John McAuliff’s Guest Column, Racism, Rebranded: We are at a crossroad as a country. We...
Guest Column
Racism, rebranded
Racism has been rebranded nationally and locally in a last desperate effort to return to an unhappy past. Guest column.
Guest Column
Former ZBA member: An ambulance garage does not belong in Route 58 shopping center
A former Riverhead ZBA member argues against Stony Brook Medicine’s proposed ambulance garage at Staples Plaza: The zoning doesn't work.
