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Sports
Despite illness Longwood senior sticks to sport he loves
September 30, 2011
Golf Gazette/Jay Dempsey: Champions crowned across North Fork
September 26, 2011
Girls Soccer: Wildcats fall 1-0 on penalty kick
September 22, 2011
Education
Mount Sinai school board reviews most recent test scores
September 25, 2011
Photos: Longwood kids celebrate Day of Peace
September 23, 2011
SWR Notes: Board gives green light for new reading program
September 21, 2011
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Business
Women’s Network celebrates 30 years of business connections
September 26, 2011
Johnny O's sports bar and grill to open in Coram this fall
September 19, 2011
Where do you get your favorite fall seasonal brews?
September 14, 2011
Community
What's happening this week?
September 23, 2011
Daily Poll: What would you most like to see built in Calverton?
September 19, 2011
Miller Place Country Fair set for this weekend
September 16, 2011
Obituaries
Frank J. Carasiti
September 20, 2011
Doris Mae Meachum
September 19, 2011
Edith Watson
September 13, 2011
Real Estate
Fall backyard trends: Economy has some opting for 'staycations'
September 16, 2011
The end of summer doesn't mean you should stop planting
September 5, 2011
Opinion
Letter: Sad to see The North Shore Sun go
September 29, 2011
Guest Spot: Amid desperation and despair on Sept. 11
September 17, 2011
Column: How sports can help us heal
September 15, 2011
editorials
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Editorial: Remembering Sept. 11, 2001
Our country was changed forever on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the fallout from the terrible events of that day there has been nothing glorious except the inspiring deeds of individuals in service to others. What good we’ve seen has to do with the courage, selflessness and nobility of the victims...
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Editorial: There are some subtle rules to this game
When the heat and humidity soar, November and Election Day may seem a long way off, but they’re really not. And although the politicking has only just begun, it all ends in less than four months. Tuesday was the deadline for all would-be candidates...
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Editorial: Steve Levy should forgo the victory laps
Every public official whose continued employment depends upon the good will of the electorate is guilty, to varying degrees, of self-promotion. It’s sometimes subtle, sometimes sensational. It’s not the most productive use of an elected official’s time, but for better or worse it’s part of getting...
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Editorial: Close to home
We know gay people. They are not strangers to us. They are part of life on the North Fork — but even making such as comment is ridiculous. People are people. They’re all over the place. The idea that the state should deny any of our friends, neighbors, ...
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Glad to see someone taking action against puppy mills
Keep it local. What a novel way of fighting puppy mills in the South, Midwest and elsewhere from right here in Suffolk County. Judging by the prevalence of such horrific — and sometimes massive — facilities elsewhere in the U.S., it’s clear the laws governing these dog-breeding operations either...
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Editorial: Uncertainty surely awaits on future school budgets
Commentators love to equate this problem or that to a tsunami, the most often and overused instance being “an economic tsunami.” It seems to have superseded “a perfect storm” in describing a crisis with multiple causes or components. With the approval of local school budgets this...
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Editorial: What to look for in a school board candidate
Residents will head to the polls Tuesday to vote not only on proposed school budgets, but for school board candidates. These are important positions, in that school boards ultimately decide how districts are run. Here are some thoughts on what makes the ideal candidate for a Board of...
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Editorial: Now the real work begins
In a matter of weeks, every drop of salt water in Long Island Sound from Hell Gate Bridge out to Fishers Island could be covered by the same federal protections previously given to the Peconic Bay estuary. The Environmental Protection Agency is in the final stages of the...
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Editorial: What’s really at stake with school budget votes?
In about a month, the annual school budget season will come to an end with voting on 2011-12 school year spending plans. That’s a venerable rite of spring across the North Shore and, like the season, the outlook can be bright and sunny or dark and stormy. It’s an...
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Editorial: Whom the gods destroy, they first make proud
A cross-endorsed Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy won re-election to a second four-year term in November 2007. Unchallenged, he received 97 percent of the vote. That may just have been his undoing. Such a mandate only emboldened the already proud and cocky politician, who over the next four years...
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Editorial: Albany offers more of the same
Less than two months into his administration, Governor Andrew Cuomo is in a really tough spot. The long-anticipated economic recovery still hasn’t arrived and taxpayers are out for blood. The state is running at a deficit, so the folks in Albany are talking about lopping off huge chunks of the budget....
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Editorial: Mobile home bill deserves support in Albany
Mobile home owner aren’t in the same situation as renters or the owners of co-ops or condominiums. With only a limited number of mobile home parks in Suffolk County — and no more on the way — many don’t have a real option to pick up and move, unless that...
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Editorial: Albany needs to find a permanent fix to state aid mess
The good thing is it didn’t come as a shock or surprise. But that’s about the only good thing that can be said about Governor Cuomo’s proposed education budget, which is $1.54 billion below last year’s package and would slash school aid on Long Island by a stinging ...
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Editorial: Gauging the need for affordable housing
Some years back a local bank president commented that there’s really no bad time to buy a house. When prices are high, mortgage interest rates tend to be low, he said, adding that the flip side — when interest rates are high, prices can be low — is also true. And,...
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Editorial: The future of us
The editorial in the very first issue of The North Shore Sun, which is reprinted in Troy Gustavson’s column on the next page, was titled “The history of us.” That was eight years ago. It was an odd headline for a first issue, since the paper itself didn’t yet have any...
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To Our Readers: After 8 years of print, the Sun will become web-only
Our vision was very simple, to create an award-winning community newspaper to serve northeastern Brookhaven modeled after our other well-established weekly flags: The Suffolk Times, Riverhead News-Review and Shelter Island Reporter. Our oldest newspaper has been around for more than 150 years. The North Shore Sun was launched in September...
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Every vote should count
We’re not quite back to the days of dimpled, hanging or pregnant chads, but we’re close. Remember those arcane terms? They refer to the tiny paper discs left behind by Florida’s punch card voting machines after the polls closed in Florida during the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and...
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Every vote should count
We're not quite back to the days of dimpled, hanging or pregnant chads, but we're close. Remember those arcane terms? They refer to the tiny paper discs left behind by Florida's punch card voting machines after the polls closed in Florida during the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and...
