Nancy Anne McTague of Raleigh, N.C., and formerly of Mattituck, passed away Tuesday, April 16, 2024. She was 84.
The family will receive friends Friday, April 26 from 4 to 7 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home, 13805 Main Road, Mattituck, N.Y.
The Liturgy of Christian Burial will take place Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel R. C. Church in Mattituck.
Interment will follow at the Cutchogue Cemetery.
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Geoffrey Hind of Greenport passed away on Thursday, April 18, 2024. He was 87 years old.
Geoffrey was born on April 7, 1937 in Farnworth, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Bessie (née Bell) and Gerald Hind. He was an only child. He graduated high school from the Bolton School in the United Kingdom. After high school he attended Cambridge University where he attained his Masters degree. From there he attended Queen Mary College in London where he attained his Doctorate degree. He worked at John’s Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. for his post-doctoral from 1962 to 1963, then moved on to Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. where he was a Senior Scientist from 1964 to his retirement in 2004. He enjoyed early music, the piano, the organ, the harpsichord, choirs and gardening.
Geoffrey is survived by his wife Bonnie (née Hulse) Hind; and cousins Yvonne Bryce of Bolton, United Kingdom and Jonathan Brown of West Augton, United Kingdom.
The family has chosen to remember Geoffrey’s life privately at this time.
DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold is serving the family.
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After sweeping the first two series of the baseball season, Shoreham-Wading River baseball took a step backward, losing all three against Bayport-Blue Point last week. Looking to bounce back, the Wildcats hosted Mattituck on Monday.
Mattituck, clumped in a division with a bunch of larger Class A schools, hasn’t been able to muster a win in the league to this point — though they’ve lost two by only a run. They’ve played Center Moriches and Bayport-Blue Point so far this season, who currently sit in first and second place.
Shoreham-Wading River would eventually emerge victorious by the score of 9-5, but Mattituck put up a fight and proved that they can play with anyone in the division.
With Gordon Votruba pitching for the Wildcats, Mattituck snatched the lead to start the game. After Mike Garrett reached first on an error to start the inning and Ben Voegel, who finished a perfect 4-for-4 from the plate, clubbed a double, the Tuckers had runners on second and third with no outs. Brenden Buckley and Sean Murphy each followed up with a sac fly to bring both of the runners home to score, making it 2-0.
“We are a smaller school playing against the big boys so you always have to take the positives out of every game,” said Mattituck head coach Dan O’Sullivan. “I like the fact that we manufactured some runs early on, which we haven’t been doing lately. Playing a little small ball, moving runners over with some sac flys, it’s important for our success.”
Though Tyler Brown, who struck out eight Wildcats in five innings, was pitching effectively for Mattituck, a series of walks set up a big inning for the Wildcats in the bottom of the second.
With the bases loaded, SWR’s Christian Cox connected on a single that ate up the shortstop to tie the baseball game at 2-2 and then Joseph Leo cleared the bases with a 3-RBI double down the right field line. Leo also delivered an RBI single in the first inning to get the Wildcats on the board.
“I was hunting a fastball there in that situation,” Leo said. “I wanted to break the game open a bit and with the bases loaded, I knew he had to come challenge me. I got my pitch and was able to drive it.”
“We knew this was a big game for us after last week,” Cox said. “We know we have a strong team this year and the ability to bounce back shows a lot about the heart of this team.”
The score would remain 5-2 for the next two innings as Votruba and Brown settled in and calmed down their respective teams. Votruba was solid on the mound, throwing six innings and striking out nine.
Mattituck would fight back again in the top of the sixth inning, with Voegel starting off the inning with a double followed by an RBI triple by Buckley and an RBI single by Murphy, but 6-4 was as close as they got before the Wildcats poured it on in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Votruba, who bats cleanup for the Wildcats, crushed a bases-clearing 3 RBI double to extend the lead to 9-4 in the sixth to essentially put the game away.
Speaking of Leo and Votruba, who bat third and fourth in the order, SWR head coach Kevin Willi said: “That’s why we have those guys there. We expect them to come up with the big hits when we need them. That’s what we were lacking in last week’s series.
“A lot of times last week we had runners in scoring position and we took fastball strike one,” Willi continued. “Once you’re behind in the count it’s hard to come back. But like the Votruba at bat, he fouled a couple pitches away and worked the count in his favor to eventually come up with a big hit.”
Cox, Leo and Votruba all collected two hits at the top of the lineup and produced eight RBIs for Shoreham-Wading River baseball.
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Jocelyn Ozolins, of Orient, N.Y., formerly of New York City, died in Feb. 2024 from complications of breast cancer. She was 65 years old.
Jocelyn was born in 1958 in Newark, N.J. to Neale Wilke Clapp and Sandra Clapp (née Nachowitz). She was raised in St. Thomas, USVI and Chatham, N.J. with her sister Robin, and her half-sister Liz. She moved to Michigan to attend the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she earned a B.A. in English and Art History, and then to New York City, where she lived until moving to Orient in 2001. Later in her career, she attended Syracuse University, where she earned an MS in Library and Information Science (2014). Pursuing a mid-career change while managing her family and professional commitments was challenging, and Joce became a valued mentor and model for others in the class navigating their own complex paths.
Jocelyn loved living in New York, where she worked as a picture researcher and Senior Account Executive for The Bettman Archive, later Corbis/Bettman. She was perfect for the job – not only because of her impressive and sometimes absurdly detailed command of the faces, names, and stories behind so many historical images, but also because of her legendary and ceaseless curiosity about any idea or event that stirred her imagination. Jocelyn’s friends and relatives knew that even the most casual reference to a book, song or oddball historical figure that she found interesting was likely to elicit either a little-known fact that would expand your knowledge of the subject, or a thought-provoking question that would test it in the most good-natured way.
When she moved to Long Island, she became a librarian, first at Floyd Memorial (2005-14) and then, after earning her MS, at Shelter Island Public Library where she was Head of Reference until her death. She also managed the Shelter Island library’s Readers Advisory, Collection Development, Adult Programming and the Mystery Book Club. She loved these roles, in part because she loved books but also because she loved the patrons. She enjoyed matching people to the resources to satisfy their own curiosities, and she loved the stories, questions, and ideas they brought. She treated the library and its patrons as a learning community, and never stopped envisioning better ways to serve that community through her work.
Jocelyn married Helmars (Mari) Ozolins, in 1997, and they raised two sons: Evan (25) and Alex (22). She was a warm and loving mother who gave her sons her excellent sense of humor and appreciation for music and art. She appreciated their individuality and loved to tell stories of their adventures in college, at work, or in navigating young adulthood. She was immensely proud of both of them.
Jocelyn loved gardening, and was both an avid gardener and a collector of gardening books. She volunteered a significant amount of time at her sons’ elementary school, where she successfully applied for grant funding to support her project – developing a butterfly garden which still blooms today at Oysterponds Elementary School.
One of Jocelyn’s favorite parts of living in Orient was the community of year-round residents and friends she found there. She especially loved the Country Store, and would make a point to bring out-of-towners in for their excellent baked goods and coffee, and of course, the Orient vibe.
Jocelyn is survived by her two sons and her husband, as well as her sister Robin, her half-sister Liz and their children, Liam, Nora and Peter. She is also survived by her uncle and aunt, Bill and Joanne Clapp and many cousins on both sides of her family – all of whom miss her dearly.
A small family memorial gathering is planned for spring. Donations in memory of Jocelyn can be made to the 21st Century Fund of the American Library Association.
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Here are the headlines for April 19, 2024.
THE SUFFOLK TIMES
Column: Eleanor Lingo’s life is a history lesson
Baseball: Tuckers fall to rebounding Wildcats
RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW
Baseball: Wildcats bounce back against Tuckers
165-unit Riverhead apartment project gets tax breaks
SHELTER ISLAND REPORTER
Shelter Island School staff: Todd Gulluscio is tops
NORTHFORKER
It’s fishing season! Wego Fishing Bait & Tackle reopens in Southold
SOUTHFORKER
South Fork Dream Home: The outdoor kitchen
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BASEBALL
April 15 Pierson 8, Southold 3
Braeden Motts hurled six innings of one-hit ball while striking out 14 for the Whalers (6-2, 3-2) as the Settlers (3-4, 3-1) suffered their first Suffolk County League VIII defeat of the season. Nathan Dee finished up, fanning two in the seventh inning. Max Krotman’s two-run double boosted Pierson into the lead.
Southold won its first game and series of the year against Amityville. The Settlers swept a doubleheader on April 10. They took the opener, 3-2, as senior right-hander Luke Newman went the entire way while striking out 12 batters. Catcher Danny Cartselos paced the attack with three RBIs on the strength of a two-run home run and a sacrifice fly. In a 9-0 win in the second game, sophomore Noah Riddell fanned four hitters over five innings. Cartselos drove in three runs on three hits. Sophomore Antonio Piraino contributed two hits and two RBIs.
The teams split another doubleheader on April 13. After dropping the opener, 7-6, the Settlers bounced back with an 8-7 victory as Max McCarthy’s walk-off sacrifice bunt for the win. Alex Lopez pitched 4 1/3 innings of one-hit relief for the win.
On Thursday, April 18, Southold will complete a three-game series at home against Pierson at 4 p.m.
April 13 Mattituck 6, Port Jefferson 3
After losing their opening six games of the season, the Tuckers (1-7, 0-7) recorded their first victory in a non-league encounter at Port Jefferson (4-3, 3-1). James Reidy allowed two earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. Trey Hansen hurled 1 1/3 innings for the save. Jack Golder led the offense with three hits and two RBIs.
Mattituck dropped a 3-2 home loss to Center Moriches in a League VII game on April 11, as Max Rayburn went 3-for-4 and had a seventh-inning RBI.
The Tuckers will complete a three-game series at Shoreham-Wading River on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. before hosting John Glenn on Monday, April 22, at 3:30 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE
April 11 Mattituck/Greenport/Southold 15, Deer Park 1
Junior attack Shane Psaltis recorded three goals and added two assists and freshman midfielder Rafa Finnerty recorded a hat-trick as the Tuckers (1-7, 1-5) secured their first win of the season in Division II action, against the host Falcons (2-6, 0-6). Junior attack Tanner Vacarella contributed two goals and two assists to lead Mattituck (1-7) in Suffolk II. Senior midfielder Alex Clark, junior midfielder Colin Fitzgerald, junior attack Tate Foster and junior attack Justin Fox also found the net. The visitors tallied five unanswered goals in the first quarter and increased their advantage to 10-1 at the half. Goalie Andrew McKenzie produced seven saves.
After hosting West Babylon on April 17, Mattituck welcomes Westhampton on Friday, April 19, at 4 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE
April 12 Shoreham-Wading River 16, Mattituck/Greenport/Southold 4
Sophomores Gianna Calise and Page Kellershon paced the Tuckers (4-5, 2-5) with two goals apiece in Suffolk Division II action. Senior goalie Aiko Fujita made five saves as Mattituck lost for the third consecutive time. Reese Marcario recorded four goals and six assists to lead the Wildcats (4-2, 4-2). Madison Herr contributed four goals.
BOYS TRACK
April 15 Mattituck 60, Ross 20
Mattituck (3-1, 3-1) defeated Ross (0-3, 0-3) at home on Monday, April 15. The Tuckers, however, lost to Southampton (3-0, 3-0), 80-60, on the same day. On April 10, Mattituck registered a 75-64 victory at Babylon. The team will compete in an invitational at Commack High School on Saturday, April 20, at 9:30 a.m.
April 15 Port Jefferson 93.5, Southold/Greenport 50.5
The Settlers (1-2, 1-2) lost at the Royals (2-0, 2-0) in League VIII competition.
Southold doesn’t have another meet scheduled until May 1, when it hosts Center Moriches at 4:45 p.m.
GIRLS TRACK
April 15 Mattituck 95, Southampton 40
The Tuckers (4-0, 4-0) remained unbeaten in League VIII against the Mariners (2-2, 2-2). They will compete in an invitational at Port Jefferson on Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m.
April 15 Port Jefferson 76, Southold/Greenport 71
The Settlers (1-3, 1-3) dropped a close League VIII decision at the Royals (3-0, 3-0). Southold doesn’t have a meet until it visits Center Moriches on Thursday, May 2, at 4:30 p.m.
BOYS TENNIS
April 11 Center Moriches 6, Mattituck 1
In a League IV match, Mattituck fell to 3-4, 3-1 while the Red Devils improved to 6-1, 4-0. The Tuckers host Ross on Thursday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. and visit Riverhead on Friday, April 19, at 4 p.m.
April 10 Southold/Greenport 4, Southampton 3
The Settlers (2-5, 1-3) won their first League IV match of the season, against the Mariners (2-5, 1-3). Southold will welcome Westhampton on Thursday, April 18 at 4 p.m., and then visit Eastport/South Manor on Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m.
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In every way, Eleanor Lingo has been a pioneer in Southold Town and across the region. At nearly every stage of her life she broke one color line after another, from her job on the sales floor of a Connecticut department store in 1944 to her position in the business office at Greenport’s Eastern Long Island Hospital in 1954.
She was a first. You could even call her the Jackie Robinson of Southold — and it would be historically accurate.
Ms. Lingo is the sole surviving child of seven siblings born to Thomas and Anna Morris, who came north from rural Virginia to work in Southold, where Eleanor was born in 1926. She turns 98 on April 28.
American history has shadowed her all her life. She believes her mother’s father, Frank Falcon, was born enslaved in Powhatan, Va. There are no records to prove it; as with many Black Americans born in the 19th century in the Deep South, birth records are scarce or nonexistent.
Her paternal grandfather, who also came north to Southold, never had a birth certificate. He could only guess at his age or what year he was born. His biography was a mystery to his family, lost in the country’s past.
“He told me a story once of the boss coming into the field where he was working” Ms. Lingo told me as we sat last week in an office at the Southold Town Recreation Center in Peconic. The center’s ping-pong tables were busy with happy players, as was one of the pool tables at the opposite end of the building. “The boss had a switch in his hand and he went to strike my grandfather,” she recounted, “but he moved out of the way and the boss hit a cow and split the hide wide open. That was the only story he ever told about his past. He wouldn’t talk about it.
“He was a wonderful man,” she added, holding up a photograph of a handsome, gray-haired man in a sharp suit. “That’s him.”
Another photograph she shares is of her mother and father, Thomas Morris and Anna Falcon Morris. “I owe everything I was ever able to do to my parents,” she said. “Everything. They brought me up right.”
Ms. Lingo’s well-deserved recognition has come in bundles. In 2017, for example, she was named both The Suffolk Times Person of the Year and Suffolk County’s Senior Citizen of the Year. She began working with the Southold Anti-Bias Task Force from its inception in the 1990s. She has stuck with it ever since.
She graduated from Southold High School in 1944, one of very few Black students in the school. Across the North Fork, hundreds of southern-born Black men and women lived in farm labor camps. One of those camps, on Cox Lane in Cutchogue, had its own school on the grounds.
“My parents came up from Virginia looking for a better life,” she said. “My father went to work on Benjamin Tuthill’s farm, where we lived. I was born there.”
Her parents helped start Shiloh Baptist Church in Southold, where her father became a deacon. The church, on County Road 48, still stands. What is missing on the site is a historical marker noting its beginnings as a place of worship for Black families who lived and worked on potato farms back when those farms were everywhere.
Talking to Ms. Lingo, hearing her stories of growing up in Southold, of getting jobs for which she was the first Black person hired, it’s easy to see her as part of something that should be remembered. For history to be an honest telling of the past, it needs to be expansive and candid, unafraid to deal with actual events. It can’t be hidden away.
Ms. Lingo is as critical a part of the area’s history as the familiar tales of English settlers who arrived in 1640. Yes, they are foundational stories — but there’s much more to be told than just their accounts. Within a relatively short time after their arrival, the English displaced the Indigenous people from this fertile land and claimed it for themselves, then brought in slaves from Barbados to do field and house work.
Local history, and how to tell more of it, was a theme at an April 8 meeting in Greenport called “Coming to the Table,” where five high school students presented their research on the institution of slavery on the North Fork before it ended in 1827. Each of the students wowed audience members with their work. Greenport’s school superintendent, Marlon Small, sat in the audience and said how proud he was of the students. Ms. Lingo was there as well, a living connection to the past.
One of the most fascinating stories Ms. Lingo shared concerns a gravestone in the cemetery next to First Presbyterian Church in Southold. As a teenager, she would walk by the cemetery on her way to school and took notice of some of the markers. On one of them was inscribed: Negro Slave Lady.
After her mother died in 1954, Ms. Lingo would visit the cemetery to put a wreath on her grave. She also made a wreath for the “Negro Slave Lady.” One year she went and found another stone. On it was just one word: Bloom. Nothing more. She put a wreath on that stone, too.
“Every year I made a wreath for my mother and for Bloom,” she said. “I did this for 30 years. Something told me there was more to it. A friend of mine was working in the cemetery one day. I asked him if he would clear around the grave.
“Sure enough, he dug around the stone and there was an inscription. It read ‘Negro Lady Died 1810.’ ”
Some later research suggested “Bloom” was a young girl abandoned on the shore of Long Island Sound in Southold by the crew of a British ship. The girl was later adopted by the Mulford family, according to several accounts.
“I was very happy to find that,” Ms. Lingo said. “She will always be remembered.”
Steve Wick is a senior editor at Times Review Media Group.
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The defending Suffolk County Class D girls lacrosse champions are in a slump. After winning four of their opening five matches this season, Mattituck/Greenport/Southold has come back down to earth, losing four straight contests.
The Tuckers are trying to figure out how to get back on a winning track after dropping a 17-6 decision to Islip in a Division II encounter in Southold Tuesday evening.
“We’ve run into [four] powerhouse schools,” head coach Logan McGinn said. “Islip is a very good team. But I didn’t walk away thinking they were that differential better than us. I definitely think there’s room for improvement.”
Starting the season, Mattituck looked unbeatable, outscoring its foes, 53-16.
Whatever magic the Tuckers (4-5, 2-5) had, it has disappeared. They have conceded a minimum of 14 goals in each of those four defeats and have scored 21 goals.
“We don’t want to hit the panic button,” McGinn said. “We are playing bigger schools. But we want to be a part of that conversation. We’re readjusting some things. We’re looking at all facets — [including] coaching perspective. I see what I could have done better.
“These were the toughest teams that we have to play this year,” McGinn added. “Our schedule definitely lightens up a little bit.”
Junior defenseman Leah Weir said, “We just have to work harder and communicate more. I think there’s a big disconnect in our communication. We’re working on our communication on defense and attack, maybe slowing down the attack a little bit more and not forcing it.”
The Buccaneers (6-4, 5-3) set the tone early, striking five times in the opening four minutes and 28 seconds. Sophomore Caitlin Barnes had accrued a hat-trick by then, en route to a six-goal performance.
“It was really hard for us to keep our heads up,” said sophomore Gianna Calise, who scored twice.
It was the fourth time this season that Barnes had tallied at least five goals. She scored eight goals in an 11-10 win over Sachem North on March 22.
“Barnes is a monster,” McGinn said. “We knew coming into this game she was tough. We were hoping that we would be able to slow it down a little bit. We did a little, but we still had a little bit of disconnect.”
Calise scored with 1:45 remaining in the first quarter to cut the lead to 7-1.
Facing a 10-2 halftime deficit, the Tuckers had a better second half. Sophomore Page Kellershon and junior Ruby Villani contributed a goal and an assist apiece. Senior Sofia Knudsen and Olivia Zehill each scored a goal. Sophomore Claire McKenzie added two assists.
“As time went on, we had each other’s backs,” Calise said. “We were there for each other even if it meant that we weren’t going to win the game. We were there as a team to build up our spirit. I’m fired up more just because our enthusiasm rose to the standard that we were hoping for.”
Senior goaltender Aiko Fujita, who backstopped the Tuckers to the county crown, was in tears afterward. She was consoled by her teammates.
“I try to raise everyone up and be as much a leader as I can,” Fujita said. “It’s hard to do that without helping myself, boosting myself up. I just need to get it out of my own head.”
McGinn has given his standout goalie some advice.
“She puts a lot of pressure on herself,” he said. “She wants to do something as a leader and she was beating herself up thinking that she’s not playing as well, being a leader. I explained to her [that] Derek Jeter wasn’t the best baseball player, but he was the best leader. There’s a difference. It’s all about how you handle yourself and handle adversity.”
Teagan Rao led Islip with four goals and one assist, Reese Wallace tallied three goals and two assists, and Taylor Reising, Carley Mullins, Hailey Zambrana and Kathryn Lettieri scored one goal each.
The Tuckers hope to start turning things around at West Babylon on Thursday, April 18 at 4 p.m. That is the start of a three-game away swing, followed by Deer Park on Saturday, April 20, and Glenn on Friday, April 26. They will finish up the regular season with four consecutive home games, starting with Hampton Bays April 29. Then come the playoffs.
“I definitely think we’ll click out of it,” McGinn said. “We’ll hit our stride and we’ll be able to go.”
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Margaret L. “Maggie” Conway of Southold passed away Thursday, April 18, 2024. She was 82.
The family will receive friends Thursday, April 25 from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold.
The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, April 26 at 10 a.m. at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold, officiated by Father John Barrett.
Interment will follow at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Cemetery in Southold.
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Robert B. Oxnam died April 18, 2024 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. He was 81.
Mr. Oxnam was born Dec. 14, 1942. His family will receive visitors Sunday, April 21 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport.
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On April 10, a resident of Lakeside Garden Apartments in Greenport reported that a scooter was stolen from the property. An investigation is continuing.
• A 46-year-old Mattituck woman told police last Thursday that her Facebook, Expedia, Amazon and Home Depot accounts had been used by an unknown subject and that multiple transactions and posts occurred without her knowledge. She said those transactions have been reported to the companies and reported no monetary loss.
• An anonymous caller told police Friday that a water tanker truck was taking water from a fire hydrant to fill a swimming pool in Southold. An officer responded and found the truck parked on Old North Road with a hose connected to a hydrant. The operator produced a permit from the Suffolk County Water Authority that allows him to take water from the hydrant. No further action was taken.
• A 61-year-old Laurel woman told police she received a call from an unknown subject saying he worked for PSEG and needed $790 or the utility would turn off her service. The woman transferred money to the unknown subject. Investigation is continuing.
• On Sunday, a Shelter Island woman called Southold police to report that her credit card had been stolen at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport. She told police that she briefly left her jacket unattended on a computer chair, and later noticed her card was missing from her jacket. She identified Thomas Ritzler, 52, of Greenport as sitting next to her at the time. Police located Mr. Ritzler and placed him under arrest for criminal larceny.
Those who are named in police reports have not been convicted of any crime or violation. The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.
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The North Fork, which on a map looks like a gnarled finger pointing out to sea, does not enjoy a topography that will easily deal with the rising ocean temperatures and sea levels brought by climate change.
In several places, the peninsula narrows to just the width of a road, with salt water on both sides. In just the past few months we have seen increasingly high tides — including one earlier this month — that surrounded multi-million-dollar waterfront homes and cut off several access roads.
There is nothing theoretical about what’s going on. Climate change is here, it’s underway and we are seeing its impact. By all predictions, it will get worse.
On April 4, during a wind-driven high tide, the bay in New Suffolk splashed over First Street and encroached on east-facing businesses. Southold Highway Superintendent Dan Goodwin drove to the scene in the middle of the night to see for himself.
“The water was very high,” he said recently. “It was well over where Captain Marty’s Fishing Station used to be and up onto First Street.”
Southold Town is in the process of mapping the streets most vulnerable to non-storm— and even non-moon-phase — flooding, such as low-lying Grathwohl Road in New Suffolk, which skirts the eastern edge of West Creek. Town officials need to prioritize this effort so waterfront homeowners know what they’re facing and residents are fully aware of what it will cost to raise roads and protect properties.
Some context: “The ocean has now broken temperature records every day for more than a year,” according to a recent New York Times story. “And so far, 2024 has continued 2023’s trend of beating previous records by wide margins. In fact, the whole planet has been hot for months, according to many different data sets.”
Last month, according to the story, “the average global sea surface temperature reached a new monthly high of 21.07 degrees Celsius, or 69.93 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a research institution funded by the European Union.”
With all this swirling in the background, Cutchogue resident John Gibbons’ April 9 presentation to the Southold Town Board was timely and important. His talk was filled with data points and real science. Although he spoke to Southold officials, everything he said applies equally to Riverhead and the other East End towns. We are all in the same boat.
Mr. Gibbons is a retired Mattituck High School teacher. His goal was to alert board members to the harsh reality of climate change and the threat it poses to the region’s unique geography. He quoted numbers procured from scientific and government sources, including the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“About two feet of sea level rise along the U.S. coastline is increasingly likely between 2020 and 2100 because of emissions to date,” Mr. Gibbons said, quoting the NOAA 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report. “They’re not including future emissions.”
He went on to read from the report: “Failing to curb future emissions could cause an additional 1.5 to 5 feet of rise for a total of 3.5 to 7 feet by the end of this century.’”
One of the effects of climate change most detrimental to region’s future, Mr. Gibbons explained, is the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.
“We’re talking about Southold disappearing,” he said. “That’s not going to happen next year, that’s not going to happen in 2100, but if we care about Southold Town, we have to start thinking about that.”
As new administrations in Riverhead and Southold move forward, they must confront the reality of what is happening all around us. Perhaps a joint commission — even one that works with Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island — staffed by experts, would be a way for the public to better understand what we are truly facing.
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ORIENT
Thank you!
I want to thank two wonderful women who came to aid my wife, who fell face first in an aisle of the Target Store in Riverhead, at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 12. Both came and helped lift her onto a chair, called 911 and waited until an ambulance came and took her to Peconic Bay Medical Center. Ann suffered a cut lip, bruised palm and a fractured femur bone. We are so grateful for them coming to help my wife and how nice they were. Now we are thankful for the care she is getting at the hospital.
Bob and Ann Hulsmann
CUTCHOGUE
I worked hard for what I have
May I add another two cents’ worth of opinion on the subject of student loan forgiveness? Some of us left high school and followed the path of higher education, the promise of a bright future, a good job with benefits and generous vacation time. Those who did sometimes chose to borrow the money to make this happen. So yeah, they went, after having completed high school, to another four, six or possibly more years of extended childhood, going to school and pursuing their dreams.
There was another group who perhaps aimed a bit lower for whatever reason — lack of academic ability, motivation, or just a lack of interest — and chose the trades.
The ability to work physically hard, endure long hours and various climates being the prerequisites. If you worked six days a week, 10 or 12 hours a day, and sometimes seven days a week, you would be able to afford something of a middle-class lifestyle. If you were lucky you got more than one week a year of vacation, but most of us didn’t. We beat up our bodies, sacrificing cartilage in our knees and discs in our backs.
In my case, it was a life I’m quite proud of, and one that has treated me well. But I have spent 40 years working Saturdays at the homes of people who have chosen the easier path, schoolteachers, government employees, people in financial and banking systems. All of which require a college education. I’ve been at their houses while they’re prancing about in their backyards with their children and living what seems to me to be the good life. I’ve never asked for anything from the government except perhaps a little fairer deal on the taxes I pay, but that is a conversation for another day.
I resent the hell out of people being forgiven their student loan debt. I wouldn’t own a home or a business if I hadn’t worked six and seven days a week for many years in my 20s, 30s and 40s. This is a giveaway to people who chose an easy path and now don’t want to pay for it. It’s Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock and I just finished working at the age of 63. I didn’t have to but it is the habit of a lifetime.
Jack Gismondi
CUTCHOGUE
Is this 2024 or 1864?
Finally, after more than 50 years of ceaseless efforts, a minority of one-third of the country achieved what they’ve been working so hard for all these years. The Arizona Supreme Court, in a vote of four to two, with one justice recusing himself, revived an 1864 statute imposing a prison sentence of not less than two nor more than five years on anyone procuring or assisting in an abortion except only to save the life of the pregnant woman — a standard undefined. The law was enacted before Arizona was even a state, and at the later stages of the Civil War. To put it in a nutshell, Arizona has now imposed 160-year-old thinking on today’s modern woman.
The abortion debate is a gift to Democrats that keeps on giving. When last anyone bothered to look, women account for more than half of the citizens of this country and no less than 66% of them would allow for abortion in most cases. For many of them, the right to choose is a single issue for them in the upcoming election. And they are not all Democrats by any means. At least 39% of Republican women think their party’s position on abortion rights is too extreme. Many of them will vote for Democrats over this issue.
A test case on how voters will react to the Dobbs decision that overturned Rove v. Wade, followed by the Civil War thinking of the Arizona Supreme Court, will play out right here on Long Island. Our congressman, Nick LaLota, who previously pushed the New York State Legislature to repeal a law that expanded abortion access, has modified his position as the political wind has changed. But his website nevertheless still declares, “I am the father of three wonderful daughters and if called to vote on the issue, would vote on limitations on abortion.” We will have to see if Mr. Lalota continues to “evolve” on the issue once faced with a Democratic opponent who highlights Mr. LaLota’s assault on a woman’s right to control her own body.
The election in November should tell us whether we’re living in 2024 or we’ve gone back to 1864.
Michael Levy
CUTCHOGUE
Vote wisely in November
Maybe come November, you’ll fill in all the circles for Republican candidates like you’ve always done. Maybe this is because you don’t like Joe Biden because of the kind of person he is or you believe that Kamala Harris is an “evil woman” or that all “liberals” are bad people. Maybe, like 85% of evangelicals, you think Trump has been anointed by God to do great things. Maybe you haven’t really thought about what your vote means in the next election. Maybe you think it doesn’t matter whether or not you vote at all. Oh, but it does.
Here’s what we saw with the Trump regime in 2016-2020 and very likely — no, assuredly — what we will see if he gets elected this time around: Lies. Narcissism. Nepotism. Greed. Accelerated climate change. Incompetence. Disrespect. Xenophobia. Lack of transparency. Further attacks on women’s rights. Further attacks on democracy. More lies. Fearmongering.
Your vote for Trump means that his world is the one you want your kids to be living in. That it’s OK to hate someone because they’re different from you. That the truth is whatever you want it to be, or that truth doesn’t matter at all. That science is just fiction. That no one’s opinion besides that of Trump himself can be trusted.
Trump does not care about you. All he wants, regardless of the harm it brings to you, your family and friends and to the entire Earth, is to be the center of attention. It is all about him.
Still, maybe you let all this slide because in your mind the biggest worries right now are immigration and the economy. Well, Joe Biden was just ready to sign into law a bipartisan-approved plan to deal with immigration much more effectively. What happened to this plan? Trump called his lackeys the night before the vote in Congress and told them to squash it. By many measures, like job creation and wage levels, the U.S. economy is doing better under Joe Biden than under Trump.
So why is Joe Biden so hated by so many Republicans? Is it because of what we have seen from him during his presidency? Truth. Modesty. Inclusion. Compassion and altruism. Aggressive action to halt climate change. Competence, at a high level. Respect. Transparency. Unequivocal support of women’s rights. Fervent protection of democracy. Truth. Hope for the future. Are these the things you would want for your children and grandchildren? This is the choice you are making when you vote this November.
Stephen Tettelbach
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Here are the headlines for April 22, 2024.
THE SUFFOLK TIMES
Study finds ‘forever chemicals’ in popular seafood
Girls lacrosse: Tuckers look to get back in stride
RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW
Calverton man pleads guilty in Bellport shooting incident
Riverhead and SWR high school sports roundup
SHELTER ISLAND REPORTER
Across the Moat: Battle of the Bands added to Greenport summer series
NORTHFORKER
Create the ultimate loca-pour bar cart with East End spirits
SOUTHFORKER
Bates + Masi: a sense of place and space
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A new study by Dartmouth researchers concludes that seafood could be a “potentially underestimated source of PFAS exposure,” and calls for new federal guidelines for safe seafood consumption.
“Our recommendation isn’t to not eat seafood — seafood is a great source of lean protein and omega fatty acids,” Megan Romano, a co-author of the study and associate professor of epidemiology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, said in a statement.
“But it is also a potentially underestimated source of PFAS exposure in humans. Understanding the risk-benefit trade-off for seafood consumption is important for people making decisions about diet, especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant people and children.”
Ms. Romano said that prior to the Dartmouth study, “most existing research focuse[d] on PFAS levels in freshwater species, which are not what people primarily eat.”
Researchers said in the statement that their conclusions illustrate the need for “more stringent public health guidelines that establish the amount of seafood people can safely consume to limit their exposure.
“This need is especially urgent for coastal regions such as New England where a legacy of industry and PFAS pollution bumps up against a cultural predilection for fish.”
The class of man-made toxins known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — collectively PFAS — have been present in thousands of consumer products for decades. They are known as forever chemicals because some of them can take hundreds of years to break down. High levels of PFAS have been linked to cancer, heart disease, thyroid disease and other maladies. A federal study last year found PFAS in nearly half the nation’s tap water.
The Dartmouth study surveyed 1829 New Hampshire residents to figure out consumption frequency, portion sizes and types and sources of seafood among adults and children. At a seafood market in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, researchers purchased the most commonly consumed seafood, including shrimp, lobster, haddock, cod, salmon and tuna — to test for 26 different PFAS compounds. They said the seafood tested was “primarily sourced directly from the Gulf of Maine” and sold fresh the day it was caught.
“Among all species sampled, the highest PFAS concentrations were observed in shrimp and lobster, [with] maximum concentration [of] 2.7 ng PFOS/g in shrimp and 5.4 ng PFTrDA/g, 3.4 ng PFTeDA/g and 2.5 ng PFUnDA/g in lobster,” the study said, referring to the levels of individual toxins within the PFAS family. “Concentrations in samples of scallops, cod, haddock, salmon and tuna ranged from less than the method detection limit to <1.0 ng/g.” Ng/g is shorthand for nanograms per gram.
It remains unclear exactly how dangerous those levels are for seafood consumers.
Ms. Romano said in an email exchange last week that uniform nationwide safety levels for PFAS in seafood don’t yet exist.
She said federal and state public health institutes have yet to “generate more comprehensive guidance to identify safe levels of PFAS, if any, in food, because right now it is difficult for even highly informed consumers to make safer seafood choices.
“One of the challenges to this work is that there generally is not specific guidance to indicate what concentrations of PFAS are safe or acceptable in food,” she wrote, “but rather the available guidance (which is sparse) is based on the amount of PFAS that someone can be exposed to each day (from any source) without detectable risks to health.
“These values are only available for a limited number of PFAS at present. In our study, we used the available health guidance values from federal or state public health agencies for PFAS to help us estimate the risk of exposure to PFOS, PFNA, or PFUnDA in seafood, relative to existing health guidance values among people consuming average or high amounts of seafood.” (A co-author of the study further explains the researchers’ methodology in this video.)
“Adverse health effects related to PFAS exposure” are not expected at less than 2 nanograms per milliliter, according to the National Institutes of Health.
“There is a potential for adverse effects, especially in sensitive populations, between 2 and 20 ng/mL,” and further risk above 20.
Bonnie Brady, executive director of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, read the 17-page report at the request of The Suffolk Times. In an interview last week Ms. Brady said she learned some things, but said that it’s extremely difficult for U.S. consumers to trace the source of most popular seafood to where it was captured — or contaminated.
She said that most of the country’s salmon is imported from Norway or Denmark, and most shrimp comes from Vietnam or the Philippines.
“Maine hasn’t had a shrimp fishery in 10 years.
“Haddock, obviously, would be a local choice … but just generically telling me ‘shrimp’ isn’t the same as telling me wild Gulf shrimp landed in North Carolina.”
She said the fact that some of the fish tested are migratory species just underscores the difficulties in accurately tracking the contaminating source in a PFAS-infected fish.
The Dartmouth research was funded by the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, as well as a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its first ever PFAS standards for drinking water, mandating that within five years PFAS levels for six man-made chemicals in drinking water must be reduced to near zero levels.
In 2020, New York state set a PFAS limit on drinking water of 10 parts per trillion. The new federal standards aim to reduce that to four parts per trillion. The agency has promised up to $1 billion in federal funding to help local municipalities upgrade their systems by 2029.
In response to this month’s EPA announcement, the Suffolk County Water Authority said in a social media post that it “has been preparing for this and we are well on our way to meeting all regulatory requirements within the timeframe laid out by the EPA.”
The post went on to note that about one-third of the SCWA’s roughly 600 public supply wells that pump water from the aquifer are fitted with Granular Activated Carbon filtration systems that filter out PFAS chemicals, and that the authority’s “own internal standard … is lower than state regulatory requirements.”
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Steven M. Norkelun of Southold died Saturday, April 20, 2024. He was 50.
The family will receive visitors Sunday, April 28, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold.
The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, April 29, at 10 a.m. at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold, officiated by Father John Barrett.
Interment will follow at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Cemetery in Southold.
Memorial donations may be made to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Thanks to financial support from the community, Mattituck High School juniors were able to embark on an educational field trip to the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan.
The memorial is known for the reflecting pools that mark where the Twin Towers stood, while the 110,000-square-foot museum showcases the history of the attacks “through artifacts, imagery, personal stories and interactive technology,” according to its website. For the students who took part in the trip, the museum offered insights into what for them is an historical event, but one that persists as an indelible memory for most Americans.
The students often know precisely where their parents were on that fateful Tuesday morning. Tim DePaulis’ father raced after work to get home and be with his older siblings. Rocco Horton’s father, a Cutchogue firefighter, headed west along with other local first responders who aided rescue efforts and helped a wounded city recover.
“I’ve never really understood and saw how it really impacted everyone in the community,” Tim said after the trip. “Not even just in the city, but on Long Island and nationwide.”
“I heard all the stories from people that were there,” Bridget Mulrain of Mattituck said. “But [the trip] made me feel like I understand more of what happened and how it affected everyone that was there at the towers. It just made me feel more understanding of it.”
The seeds for the trip were planted at Ammirati’s on Love Lane on Sept. 11 last year. Although deli owner Greg Ammirati and many of his colleagues and customers, many of whom are first responders, well remember the events of 2001, he realized one of his younger employees was born years after the attacks unfolded. That realization inspired him to help Mattituck’s youth better understand what the nation and the world endured on a day that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, including hundreds of first responders and others who continue to die from various 9/11-related illnesses.
Mr. Ammirati galvanized the community, raising several thousand dollars to load the Mattituck juniors onto two Hampton Jitneys, send them to the museum, and bring them home. Edward Sidor, a senior design director at the museum who graduated Mattituck High School in 1980, led the students on a guided tour.
“The PBA, along with the Lions Club and Greg [Ammirati] and some other local businesses funded the trip,” Mattituck school superintendent Shawn Petreti said. “And the fact that Ed Sidor, who has been involved in the museum since the day of the attacks — the aftermath, the clean up, the planning and designing of the memorial — was there to speak with students and arrange a first class tour for our kids, it really made it a special day.”
Students do learn about the events of Sept. 11 in the classroom. Kevin Chartrand, the high school’s 11th grade U.S. history teacher, said he discusses the attacks with his students every year on the anniversary as well as later in the year when he tries to squeeze the modern era into the final few weeks of instruction.
“You have to really explain the role of the United States in the world, Islamic fundamentalists, why they would attack the United States and why [they attacked] the Twin Towers.” Mr. Chartrand said. “It’s kind of explained to the kids that the [World Trade Center] was kind of a representation, a symbol of the American economy … They’ve grown up in a post-9/11 world. Most of us before that knew a very different world, different security measures that are in place right now, Department of Homeland Security, the watch for terrorists and terrorist activity, something that we never really grew up with, but that we’re really concerned with now in the post-9/11 world.”
While the classroom experience is informative, it cannot compare to what the students experienced at the museum itself. The teenagers got a clearer grasp of the sheer devastation the attacks caused and the torrent of shattered glass and toxic debris that rained down on the city and the region. The students were also taken aback by the audio recordings of victims’ final messages to their loved ones and recordings first responders’ communications on site.
“Hearing [NYFD] Company 3, hearing their last radio transmissions, it’s different than just learning about it,” Rocco said. “I’m in the [Cutchogue] fire department as well — hearing them transmit those, it’s scary.”
Rocco said “the last column” — a three-and-a-half-story beam that was the final piece of debris removed from Ground Zero on May 30, 2002 — stuck out as his most memorable exhibit piece. The museum was built around the beam, which became a powerful symbol of remembrance during the cleanup after a firefighter spray painted it to mark where he saw signs of his fallen colleagues. Other first responders, recovery workers and victims’ loved ones soon adorned the column with “patriotic messages, signatures, union stickers, agency patches, photographs, memorial and prayer cards and flowers,” the museum’s website said.
Since returning from from the trip, Mr. Ammirati said he’s heard from more than a dozen students and parents who said the outing was a success.
“It feels awesome,” he said of spearheading the initiative. “I spoke to one of the [Southold] cops [who went on the trip], they want to try and get Southold and Greenport [schools] to go next year. Hopefully that can happen. I said I’d help, and I’m sure the community out there will help. It’s a great thing to get behind.”
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Here are the headlines for April 23, 2024.
THE SUFFOLK TIMES
Mattituck high schoolers visit 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Boys tennis: Tuckers rally past Riverhead
RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW
Following tweaks to dual language program, Riverhead School Board adopts 2024-25 budget
Study finds ‘forever chemicals’ in popular seafood
SHELTER ISLAND REPORTER
Perlman campus use change delayed: ZBA wants more time to study
NORTHFORKER
My Favorite Things: Alie Shaper
SOUTHFORKER
Great Illuminations: Get turned on to these Hamptons light sources
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Some doubles partners take a while to find their rhythm.
Then there’s the Mattituck High School duo of seniors Mike Finnegan and Phoenix Samolewski, who get along quite nicely, thank you.
The partners won for the fourth time since they were paired together earlier this season, helping the Tuckers to a 6-1 win over host Riverhead in a Suffolk County Division IV encounter on a chilly Friday afternoon.
“Riverhead’s got a similar record to ours, so we knew it could have been a close match, but our guys played pretty well today,” said Mattituck head coach Cory Dolson, whose team improved to 4-5, 4-2, while the Blue Waves dropped to 3-7, 2-5.
The Tuckers’ win started with their first seeds, senior Tommy McGunnigle at first singles, and Finnegan and Samolewski in first doubles, defeating Macklin Jordan and Christian Seymour, 6-3, 6-1.
They didn’t start out well, making several mistakes in the opening set before finding themselves.
“They started a little slow,” Dolson said. “They were playing a little sloppy in the first set and then picked it up. They cleaned the game up a little bit. They’re playing pretty well together. That’s definitely our best doubles team, a team that we think can go pretty far at the end of the year.”
All things considered, Finnegan and Samolewski’s transition to doubles partners has gone well.
“Mike plays really well at the net. I play fairly decently on the back,” Samolewski said. “Whenever I had a nice cross court shot, he’s always able to like connect and end the point.”
Finnegan noted that the duo’s height — they’re each 6-foot-2 — has helped them gain an advantage.
“We’re both pretty tall so we’re able to take advantage at the net and win a lot of points very easily,” he said. “I would say that was going really well for us.”
The duo also has developed some solid communication, which has gone a long way.
“It’s very important,” Samolewski said. “If some guy lobs it over our head, I yell switch, which means I just slide to the other side of the net and then just keep playing like nothing ever happened.”
In the first singles confrontation, McGunnigle downed Ben Dono, 6-3, 6-0.
“Tommy’s got a big serve and he hits the ball well on the baseline,” Dolson said. “He wore the guy down a little bit. He got better as the match went on. He looked good today.”
McGunnigle wasn’t about to argue that.
“Things went really well,” he said. “He’s a good player and I just played very well. I was very consistent today. I wasn’t hitting balls into the net or out.”
Mattituck had plenty of consistent performances, winning four other matches.
Jack Carter bested Chris Carved in second singles, 6-0, 6-2. In third singles, eighth grader Graham O’Connor dropped the first set 7-5, but rallied to win the second, 6-3, before taking the tie-breaker against Jaxon Hubbard, 10-3.
“Anytime you have an eighth grader do that in singles, that’s pretty impressive,” Dolson said.
In second doubles, Max Gaveau and Ethan Sciottio downed Quinn Stromski and Cyril Turner, 6-3. In third doubles, Jonah Schwartz and Peter Krogulec beat Sean Dougherty and Randy Hoverkamp, 7-5, 6-0.
The Blue Waves’ lone win came in the last match of the afternoon, as sophomores Alex Suwiak and Bralen Blom beat James Jurik and Landon Goldsmith, 6-3, 6-6, 7-5, in fourth doubles.
“They were great,” Riverhead head coach Mike Laffey said. “They’ve been in a couple of really close matches this year. Just the way that they fight every single match is really impressive. Whenever they get down, they’re always trying the best that they can to get the result that they want. It worked in their favor today. I’m really proud of them.”
Although Riverhead recorded just one victory on Friday, Laffey has liked what he has seen from his team this spring.
“They’re fighting. They’re getting better,” he said. “Last week, we played three of the better teams in our division in Westhampton, Ross and Shoreham-Wading River.”
That resulted in three 7-0 home losses.
“A lot of times, kids can get down when they play through tough matches in a row, but they never wavered,” Laffey said. “In every match they were trying their best. They have a great attitude about it. They’re always giving themselves a chance to win. You can’t ask for anything more than that.”
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Margaret L. “Maggie” Conway, longtime Southold resident, passed away on Thursday, April 18, 2024. She was 82 years old.
Maggie was born on March 26, 1942, in Great Neck, N.Y., to Margaret (née Pigeon) and Philip Lynch. She was one of five children. She attended Great Neck School District when she was younger and graduated from Greenport High School. On April 28, 1962, in Greenport, she married the love of her life, the late Joseph A. Conway. Together they had three children.
Maggie was a past president of the Republican Club, a member of the Republican Committee, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of Saint Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold. In her professional career she owned and operated Southold Village Liquors for 40 years.
Predeceased by her husband, Joseph, and siblings Catherine Bumble and Philip Lynch, Maggie is survived by her children, Joseph A. Conway Jr., Jane Conway Barszczewski and Tina M. Ginas; 10 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and siblings Patricia Doucett and Jane Leahey.
The family will receive friends Thursday, April 25, from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, April 26 at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Church in Southold, officiated by Father John Barrett. Interment will follow at Saint Patrick’s R.C. Cemetery in Southold.
In lieu of flowers, donations to American Legion Griswold-Terry-Glover Post 803 would be appreciated.
This is a paid notice.
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