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Equal Time: There’s no doubt Republicans are scared
ANTHONY COATES COURTESY PHOTO | Anthony Coates They’re worried. Yesterday, Councilman Jim Wooten sounded retreat and the Old Guard Republicans started circling the wagons because they are worried. They...
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Brief bios on primary candidates for town office
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | (L-R) Anthony Coates, John Dunleavy and Jodi Giglio at an Aug. 26 debate Voters in Riverhead Town who are registered with the Republican, Democratic or Independence parties...
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Giglio, Dunleavy and DeVito trounce challengers
GRANT PARPAN PHOTO | Councilwoman Jodi Giglio celebrates her primary election win with fellow Town Board members James Wooten (left) and George Gabrielsen. Riverhead Town Democratic Committee nominee...
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Featured Letter: Next time stick to the issues
TIM GANNON PHOTO | Anthony Coates delivers a concession speech Tuesday night. To the editor: I believe the voting public is always open to support a challenger who places ideas and principles above...
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Guest column: Time to get to work, Town Board
MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO | Riverhead Town Hall on Howell Avenue. The road signs are gone (mostly), the ballots have been scanned, the results have been counted and it’s time for the new/old Town Board to...
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Guest Column: A Town Board that needs some refining
The state Armory building on Route 58. (Credit: file) When I ran for Riverhead Town Board last year, I made positive suggestions that I believe might help the board through the embarrassing bickering...
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Guest Column: With Town Hall, check conflicts at the door
Riverhead Town Hall (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) Last year, as candidates for the Riverhead Town Board, we sounded the warning bell about public officials also serving as high political party officials....
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Guest Spot: Surprise, surprise it’s a Town Board confused
The Gershow Recycling plant in on Hubbard Avenue in Riverhead. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch file) Give me a moment, I’ll tell you a funny story. Two weeks ago, Councilwoman Jodi Giglio went on WRIV radio...
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Featured Letter: Same old Coates
The Gershow Recycling plant on Hubbard Avenue in Riverhead. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) To the editor: You would think that after running a highly negative campaign that yielded just 21 percent...
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Guest Spot: Why can’t Riverhead Town stop making excuses?
(Credit: Tim Gannon file) I used to weigh 107 pounds more than I do today. When I got my shoes shined, I had to take the guy’s word for it. I felt bad, I looked bad, I couldn’t do much and when you’re...
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Guest Column: EPCAL can help our veterans — and our region
Gray shuts out the sun as another winter begins to descend upon the Enterprise Park at Calverton, known as EPCAL. For 20 years now, the former Grumman property — once a fertile crescent of ideas and...
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Supe’s former political advisor launches ‘online civic association’
Anthony Coates, a former political ally of the supervisor who ran an unsuccessful Republican primary for Riverhead Town Council in 2013, is planning to launch a new website he hopes will act as an...
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Walter’s former adviser, Coates, to screen with Dems for supe
Supervisor Sean Walter and Anthony Coates. (File photos) Anthony Coates, a former political adviser to Supervisor Sean Walter — who is up for re-election this fall — has been noncommittal on whether or...
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Coates backs out of bid for supervisor; DeVito steps up
A few days ago, Anthony Coates was planning to screen for the Riverhead Democratic Committee nomination for supervisor and Angela DeVito wasn’t planning to run for any office at all this year. Now, Ms....
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He’s in, he’s out, he’s in? Coates screens for supervisor
After saying he was screening for supervisor, and then saying he was not screening, Anthony Coates actually did end up screening with the Riverhead Democratic committee after all Thursday night. But he...
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Walter, Wooten to run as a pair in fall primary
Supervisor Sean Walter and Councilman James Wooten smiled and posed for photos after a meeting in 2011. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch file) After they both lost their party’s nomination for re-election...
View ArticleLetter: Less studies, more action
Almost daily, the media teases stories about how to lose weight and get into shape and the answer is always the same: diet and exercise. Most folks don’t want to hear that, though. We like the idea of...
View ArticleNews-Review to host debates at Polish Hall
The News-Review will host a pair of public debates Monday, Oct. 19, featuring candidates for Riverhead Town supervisor and Town Board. The two-hour event will be held at 7 p.m. at Polish Hall....
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Guest Column: Why can’t the town bring solar to EPCAL?
Six long years ago, this Town Board declared the development of EPCAL to be “priority number one.” Six years later, we don’t have a completed subdivision at EPCAL or even an application before the...
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Comptroller’s report projects ‘significant’ fiscal trouble for town
Riverhead Town wasn’t in serious fiscal trouble last year, according to the New York State Comptroller’s Office. But if the Comptroller’s projections are accurate, that may not last. According to a...
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