One remarkable success story in our response to the pandemic has been how swiftly and effectively eastern Long Island medical systems scaled up to meet the challenge.

Only in government would it make sense to take a working public service and place it completely on hold while developing a new one.

Who would have thought when a pandemic hit the United States that instead of stocking up on guns, Americans went grocery shopping?

Before the coronavirus became a round-the-clock night­mare, mine were confined to night­time.

George W. Bush and Barack Obama both made use of a White House office to prepare for public health disasters. But when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the office was no longer functional, and valuable time was unnecessarily lost.

One month after the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund recorded the highest first quarter revenues in its 22-year history, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced last Thursday that in April revenues had fallen to a level more on par with 2019.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.