Matthew White of Laurel was arrested around 6:30 p.m. last Tuesday for driving while intoxicated on Peconic Bay Boulevard, police said.

• Michael Curio of Highland Mills was arrested last Tuesday for DWI on Route 48 in Mattituck around 11:30 p.m., police said.

• A Greenport man flagged a police officer down while he was having boat trouble while anchored outside the entrance of Sterling Creek in the channel last Sunday, police said. Officers towed the man back to his dock inside Sterling Creek, officials said.

• A Southold woman called police when she heard a cell phone go off in her residence last Monday around 9 p.m., police said. Police investigated and found that it was her iPad making the noise, the report stated.

• A Southold police officer was traveling eastbound on Main Road last Tuesday around 2 a.m. and was struck by a deer running northbound, causing “minor damage” to the front right side of the police vehicle, the report stated.

• Police received an anonymous complaint last Tuesday about political signs posted within 100 feet of the polling place at Cutchogue East Elementary School, police said. Police removed the signs and placed them in impound around 7:20 a.m., the report stated.

• A Cutchogue woman reported that her son was “punched and kicked while leaving the dunes” by a group of people at Breakwater Beach last Saturday, police said. His mother brought him to Eastern Long Island Hospital around 1 a.m. where he was treated for a minor contusion to the left side of his forehead, police said.

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 The charges against them may later be reduced or withdrawn, or they may be found innocent.

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For the past 22 years, the Town of Southold’s land-use decisions have been shaped by Planning Board member William Cremers. He resigned last week due to health reasons.

“I was interested in planning when I first moved out here permanently,” he said. “Because I wanted it to stay, not the same as it always was, but to preserve as much as I could, and that’s been my principle all along.”

Mr. Cremers’ involvement in planning began after retiring to Southold in 1986, when he started a group called Southold 2000, which focused on the future of the town.

“We came up with a group of people interested in how Southold would look in the year 2000, and we didn’t want it destroyed at that point,” Mr. Cremers said. “We came up with a planning conference which over 100 people attended from the town. It was an all-day affair and it went over great.”

Getting involved in code committees and other groups familiarized him with the town code and helped prepare him to work with the Planning Board, which he joined in 1995. One of his favorite memories was being a part of the US-UK program, when four planners from the United Kingdom and four from the United States spent a week in Southold to come up with recommendations about preservation and town codes.

“Since I started, the main thing is, if you follow the code then I think you can preserve a lot right there, and our code is really good,” Mr. Cremers added.

Mark Terry, assistant director of planning, has worked closely with Mr. Cremers since 2002.

“Bill’s decision-making is embedded in this town’s greatest qualities; almost every business, subdivision, major plan and effort over the last 22 years was scrutinized and steered by Bill’s hard work and vision that put the town’s environment and people first,” Mr. Terry said.

Mr. Cremers recalls that the first planning project he worked on — the McDonald’s in Mattituck — is one of his favorites.

“That came out beautiful,” he said.

“Bill has been an invaluable member of the Planning Board with his dedication, hard work and vast knowledge,” Planning Board chairman Donald Wilcenski said. “The contributions and decisions that Bill made while serving on the board over the many years will resonate well into the future and benefit generations. It was a privilege to serve with him on the board and he will be missed. We all wish him well in the future.”

In March 1949 Mr. Cremers joined the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Philippine Sea off the coast of Korea during the Korean War. He was discharged in 1952 and married his wife, Anne, of 61 years. He served on the affordable housing committee from 1997 to 1999 and was successful in creating affordable housing subdivisions in the town at that time, according to Mr. Terry.

“I’ll miss everything about the Planning Board,” Mr. Cremers said. “I didn’t want to retire, but I wasn’t spending as much time at meetings and it wasn’t fair to the other members to be short all the time.”

Supervisor Scott Russell said he hopes to appoint a replacement sometime within the next four to six weeks.

“We’re gonna miss him a lot,” said board member Martin Sidor, who served with Mr. Cremers for more than 10 years. “It’s going to be very hard to fill those shoes.”

“The many generations that follow may not know of every decision that Bill made to shape the town they love,” Mr. Terry said. “But they will live it; walking through the front door of their home, driving to a favorite business, hiking their favorite trail or enjoying their favorite creek.”

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The North Fork Breast Health Coalition hosted its 19th annual Tanger 5K Walk Sunday morning. Under beautiful, clear skies, participants walked two laps around both Tanger 1 and Tanger 2.

Breast cancer survivors from across the North Fork and beyond, many dressed in pink, participated as volunteers sold raffle tickets for prizes donated from local businesses.

Riverhead Town Councilman Jim Wooten led the invocation, encouraging people to stay positive. The Southold/Mattituck NJROTC presented the colors in their 19th appearance at the walk.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Read more here.

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Hi, my name is Rusty Kransky and I am a mail carrier in Greenport.

I started in September 2003, so I just celebrated my 14th year.

There are five routes in Greenport. There are two routes where we actually walk with a cart. It’s a lot of walking. The route is 12 miles a day. Up and down streets. Up and down steps, porches.

I usually get to work at 8 o’clock. What you may not know is before we open [the clerks] actually sort all our mail for us.

I actually only have a quarter of the mail with me [at a time.] So I get it all ready, I put it together and somebody takes the rest of the mail out in a truck and drops it off at locations all along the route. So when I run out of mail, there’s more waiting for me.

Rusty Kransky. (Credit: Nicole Smith)

I have a lot of great people on my route who are very, very nice to me. In the summer on hot days they’ll bring me out cold bottles of water. In the winter they will bring me hot coffee, or tea. Sometimes they say come on in and sit in front of the wood stove. It’s wonderful in the middle of a snow storm. On nice days like this people will see me out and about and they’ll say, “Wow, I really would love to have your job.” But, of course, they don’t realize it’s not a seasonal job. We’re also out there in the winter, in the snow and rain and ice.

It’s a wonderful service that you can actually go online and order things and all of a sudden this package shows up and it’s brought right to your door. You don’t have to go to the mall or go shopping. People that have difficulty getting out can go online and have everything brought to them. Of course, their mail comes right to their house. I think also it helps sometimes people who are elderly, people who are housebound, to see a familiar friendly face day in and day out. Someone they can depend on, someone who will help them, or at very least, someone to talk to.

‘The Work We Do’ is a Suffolk Times multimedia project profiling workers on the North Fork. This weekly feature is made possible by Peconic Landing. See more photos on Instagram @thesuffolktimes.

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In high school girls tennis, the difference between Suffolk County League VII and League VIII in terms of caliber of play is tremendous.

While League VIII may be good for a team’s win-loss record, tougher League VII will make a team better.

“This is the league you want to be in,” Bishop McGann-Mercy coach Mike Clauberg said of League VII. “This is where the competition is.”

Clauberg and his Monarchs should know. Last year they were League VIII champions, going 18-1 and reaching the Suffolk County Team Tournament Round of 16. As their reward, they were promoted to League VII. Even with the loss of seven players from last year’s lineup, Mercy prefers to be pushed, as does Mattituck, Mercy’s opponent on Monday when the visiting Monarchs won, 6-1.

“The progress we’ve made from the beginning of the season till now is tremendous,” Mattituck coach Mike Huey said. “They’re doing the right things. They’re making the right moves and that’s because they’re playing good competition. It might not be reflected in Ws and Ls. We could go down to League VIII and we can win love and love, and it’s no big deal, and we might not get much better. [In League VII] we have to fight for every single point.”

Mattituck’s first singles player, senior Liz Dwyer, thrives on competition. She fretted when she heard talk of Mattituck possibly being dropped to League VIII for this season. “I was telling Mr. Huey: ‘We can’t. We have to stay in it. The competition is really good.’ I’m like, ‘Our team can handle it.’ ”

That improvement comes at a price, though. Mercy (4-5, 3-4) and Mattituck (2-7, 0-7) started the day at the bottom of the six-team league standings under William Floyd, Westhampton Beach, Eastport-South Manor and East Hampton/Bridgehampton/Pierson. Mercy had lost three of its previous four matches and Mattituck had dropped four straight.

But, as Mercy junior Brooke Kappenberg put it, “You can only get better playing better people.”

Rose Hayes showed why she is among the better players in the league. The Mercy eighth-grader, who had flown back to New York Monday morning after playing in a weekend tournament in Charlotte, N.C., may have been weary, but it sure didn’t show in her play. Hayes (8-1) played it safe with her first serves and only needed a second serve three times in her 6-0, 6-1 defeat of Dwyer (6-3). Dwyer, on the other hand, went 12-for-30 (40 percent) on her first serves.

Playing her typical clean game, Hayes fired away 15 winners and showed her tremendous ball retrieval ability as she outpointed Dwyer, 49-18.

“She goes for the winners,” Clauberg said. “She can do with accuracy what most players can’t. That puts her at a whole different level. She’s a natural. She was born to play tennis.”

Jamie Densieski and Isabella Sorgi also brought Mercy singles wins. Densieski defeated Drew Hahn, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, and Sorgi stopped Larysa Andreadis, 6-1, 7-5.

Mattituck’s sole team point was provided by second singles player Emily Mowdy, a 6-3, 6-1 winner over Kelsey Brandwick. Mowdy is 6-3 this season.

It was all Mercy in doubles. Karina Ellis and Kappenberg teamed up to beat Joy Davis and Alex Talbot, 6-1, 6-2, at first doubles. Second doubles provided the only three-setter of the day, with Jordyn Stromski and Ryan Waski prevailing over Ashley Perkins and Jessica Scheer, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. In third doubles, Julia Cappiello and Lizzy Hannah recorded a 6-1, 6-1 win over Julie Kosmynka and Mia Slovak.

“We’re getting somewhere I think,” Kappenberg said. “This year it’s definitely much harder, a lot harder. Everybody’s so much better.”

And that’s the name of the game in League VII.

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Photo caption: Emily Mowdy brought Mattituck its only team point against Bishop McGann-Mercy with her victory at second singles. (Credit: Bob Liepa)

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The Mattituck High School girls soccer team continued to share the wealth as four players found the back of the net in its 4-1 win over host Smithtown Christian in a Suffolk County League VII game Monday.

Sophomore Claire Gatz scored one goal and set up another and sophomore Maggie Bruer, senior Mackenzie Daly and junior Amber Rochon added one goal apiece for the Tuckers (7-2, 7-2).

This season 12 players have scored for Mattituck, which won its third consecutive game.

“I think they did pretty well as far as just making sure we moved into open space and getting the ball around and working it,” said Tuckers coach Stephen Lirosi, who was pleased his team played a possession game. “Let’s maintain possession and head north the entire time, try to get it on net. So I liked how we maintained possession, how we worked the ball around. We’re just getting better at that as each practice and game goes on.”

Bruer lifted Mattituck into a 1-0 lead, slotting the ball from the left side of the penalty area past goalkeeper Sarah Spreckels with 22 minutes, 32 seconds remaining in the opening half.

Some nifty passing helped the visitors double their lead with 9:05 left in the half. Right back Jordyn Maichin sent a long ball down the right flank to midfielder Elvira Puluc. Puluc crossed the ball to Daly, who finished for a two-goal advantage.

Gatz’s left-wing cross set up Rochon’s goal on the right side with 19:18 to go in the game, making it 3-0.

The Knights (2-4-1, 2-4-1) pulled one back on junior Alexa Weindorf’s penalty kick past goalkeeper Sarah Santacroce with 11:28 remaining in the match before Gatz restored the three-goal lead, connecting from the right side of the area with 3:40 left, only 28 seconds after she fired a shot wide left.

Due to the unusually high temperatures in late September, the referees decided to hold two water breaks in each half.

The Tuckers will visit The Stony Brook School in another league match Wednesday.

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Hashamomuck Cove residents had the chance last Tuesday to get answers about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to bolster the beach along their properties against rising sea levels.

The proposed project, which preliminary estimates say will cost about $17.7 million, includes a beach build-up of 50 feet along the west, central and east sections of the cove, a stretch of roughly 1.6 miles.

Last week’s meeting at the Southold Town Recreation Center came a year after a public hearing on the draft report and focused on public access requirements.

“We understand that our projects directly impact the homeowners because there are requirements for real estate and public access,” said Steve Couch, chief deputy of planning Steve Couch, chief deputy of planning for the Army Corps.

The beachfront would no longer be private, state Department of Environmental Conservation’s chief coastal erosion manager Sue McCormick explained. The public would be able bring their beach blankets and chairs to the replenished beach, as part of the contract requirement. In addition, the east and central sections of the cove would require a few parking spaces, while the Town Beach lot would provide access to the western portion.

Lynn Laskos, chair of the Hashamomuck Cove group, asked for clarity about whether people would be able to use a homeowner’s steps to get to the beach.

“They have no right to go on private property,” Ms. McCormick said. “They can only go where sand is placed.”

A few residents also asked about the project’s easement requirement. To conduct any sort of construction, the Army Corps will need to obtain easements from the owners of approximately 75 private parcels.

Owners can agree to donate the easement to the local project sponsor, which has not yet be determined, or can be compensated for it after an appraisal of their property.

Bill Frangos asked whether the easement would affect the deed on his property. Ms. McCormick said the easements do not alter deeds and the amount of property someone owns.

Owners were also curious as to where the sand to replenish the beach will come from. While the project could be conducted by trucking sand in, Mr. Couch said, other methods, such as dredging, look to be more cost effective.

In addition, people wanted to know about the proposal’s next steps. The final results of the analysis will be complete sometime this fall and will be released at a presentation, Mr. Couch said. That report needs to be approved by Congress.

At one point an attendee asked if the Army Corps had explored all alternative options to protect Route 48 from sea level rise. The Corps concluded that its current plan is the most cost-effective long-term solution for the area, Mr. Couch said.

Ms. Laskos, whose home was knocked into Long Island Sound by a nor’easter in 1994, said the project is necessary to protect both the homes and the road. Homeowners have tried to bolster their own shorelines with revetments and bulkheads over the years, but now more needs to be done, she said.

“It’s the homeowners who are protecting this road,” she continued. “We invested in this for years and years and years. Now we’re saying, ‘Hey, we can’t be the buffers any longer.’”

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Former Southold resident Ariana Mae Chute of North Myrtle Beach, S.C.  died suddenly Sept. 26. She was 10. 

Funeral service details are pending and will be announced.

DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home is assisting the family.

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Eastern Long Island Hospital raise nearly $16,000 during its inaugural 5K Walk/Run on Sept. 10 at Breeze Hill Farm & Preserve in Peconic.

About 150 people participated in the event, which benefits behavioral health services at the Greenport hospital.

“We embrace those who are considering treatment for substance use and/or mental health challenges,” ELIH CEO Paul Connor said in a press release. “For many, this choice is the beginning of a new life. We congratulate such courage.”

The family-friendly event included warm-up exercises by CrossFit North Tribe of Southold, face painting, puppy and kitten adoption from North Fork Animal Welfare League and refreshments from local establishments. A special appearance was also made by the farm’s llama, “Santana.”

“ELIH’s inaugural 5K Walk/Run was a spectacular day filled with family fun and support for our local community hospital,” Breeze Hill Farm & Preserve owner Christopher Pia said in the release. “We are extremely grateful to all of the participants and local businesses that stepped forward to establish a new event for Eastern Long Island Hospital.”

Jason Leonard of Southold took first place with a race time of 20:14.98.  Tara Wilson of Shelter Island Heights finished second at 20:49.46. Third place went to Brian Wolfe of Cutchogue at 21:51.35.

For a complete list of 5K run participants and race results, visit elitefeats.com.

Photo credit: Eastern Long Island Hospital

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Breeze Hill Farm general manager Scott DuBois with Santana at the finish line.

First-place winner Jason Leonard of Southold with second-place winner Tara Wilson of Shelter Island Heights.

Phyllis and Lloyd Simon.

Nancy Polinger and Jan Claudio.

Jessie Wong, Scott Bennett and Paul J. Romanelli.

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Claire Borelli of Southold died Sept. 25. She was 86.

She was born April 25, 1931, in Brooklyn. She married Fortunato Sesti of Brooklyn in 1948 and they had three daughters, Yvonne, Debbie and Antoinette. Fortunato passed in 1970 and Claire re-married Richard Borelli of Westbury. They resided in East Meadow together then moved to Port Washington, until Richard’s death in 2004.

After Richard’s death, Ms. Borelli moved to Southold. Family members said she made many new friends and enjoyed her later years being a member of the Southold community.

Ms. Borelli is survived by her daughters, Yvonne Jutze of Franklin Square, Debbie Goldblatt of Old Bethpage and Antoinette Cassidy of Southold; her stepson, Richard Borelli Jr. of Sound Beach; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her stepdaughter, Lorie Borelli of Port Washington.

The family will receive visitors Sept. 27 at Cassidy Funeral Home in Mineola. Burial will take place Sept. 28 at Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association or an animal rescue organization of your choice.

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Bianca Christina Buttafuoco

Former Mattituck resident Bianca Christina Buttafuoco of Jamesport died Aug. 5. She was 36. 

The daughter of Wendy and Santo J. Buttafuoco, she was born April 9, 1981, in Head of the Harbor.

Ms. Buttafuoco graduated from Mattituck High School in 1999 and received a bachelor’s degree in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Family members said she loved photography, and was a freelance photographer for books and fitness magazines.

She is survived by her parents and brother, Santo Jr.

Funeral services took place Aug. 12 at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck.

The family suggests that memorial donations be made to Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church.

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Longtime North Fork Stanley C. Garren of Greenport died Sept. 21 in Greenport. He was 71.

The son of Blanche Rublowsky Corovessis and Stanley Cook, he was born June 1, 1946, in the Bronx.

He attended Orient Elementary School, Southold High School and Suffolk County Community College.

Mr. Garren served in the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1967.

For 32 years, he worked as a service manager for Sunrise Coach Lines. He also was a chef at the Seafood Barge in Southold.

He is survived by his children, Heather Engels, of Southold, Ethan Garren of Wappinger Falls, N.Y., Anna Christa Cronin of Florida and Gabriella Garren of Greenport; brothers, Gary Garren, of Nipomo Calif., Charles Corovessis of Riveria Beach, Fla. and Richard Corovessis of Coopersburg, Pa. and five grandchildren.

The family will receive visitors Thursday, Sept. 28, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A service will take place at 9:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 29, at Calverton National Cemetery with Army Honor Guard.

Memorial donations may be made to American Vet Dogs, 371 East Jericho Tpke, Smithtown, NY 11787 or the American Diabetes Association.

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A celebration of life for Gary Moeller of Southold will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at North Fork United Methodist Church, Pastor Tom MacLeod officiating.

Mr. Moeller died Aug. 30 at the age of 63.

Memorial donations may be made to IGHL 221 North Sunrise Service Road, Manorville, NY 11949.

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Town Planning Board members on Monday evening reviewed comments from the public about the Southold Gas Station and Convenience Store proposed for the intersection of Youngs Avenue and Route 48.

The proposal calls for conversion of an existing 3,476-square-foot building into a convenience store and gas station with 12 fueling stations and 29 parking spaces, according to a town document. At a public hearing Aug. 17, residents expressed concern that the project would impact their quality of life. The existing businesses at the site, Tidy Car and East End Campers, deal in vehicle detailing and RV sales and service.

The Planning Board has so far rejected two draft environmental impact studies for the project, the first of them in January 2016. When the applicant submitted a revised study in December, planning officials said it lacked information that had been requested. The DEIS is required to show how the project can mitigate specific issues, such as traffic and other environmental impacts.

A 12-page summary of comments — both verbal and written — resulted from the August hearing. Residents’ main concerns were major traffic in that area and the timing of the traffic study. Residents were also very concerned about the character of the neighborhood being compromised, increased lighting and the potential for crime.

“There were several comments about people turning around in the Founders Village development,” Mark Terry, assistant town planning director, said. “And they were concerned about safety.”

Founders Village is a senior housing development in Southold on Youngs Avenue.

Although a majority of community members are against this gas station and convenient store, some positive comments were also included. Some thought that a gas station at that location would help alleviate traffic on Route 25 by bringing more people to Route 48 for gas. Others said that the location would not create traffic concerns because a traffic light is already in place.

The board requested the applicant of this proposed gas station, represented by Riverhead attorney Charles Cuddy, to respond to the substantive comments for the board to review. There is no set due date at this time, but the applicant is expected to receive the questions by early next week. Mr. Cuddy said he would comply and submit responses to the board once he got the official list of questions.

The application for another gas station also proposed for Route 48 called Jemcap Gas Station had previously been found incomplete by the board.

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A requiem Mass for The Rev. Canon John Madden of Laurel will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, at Cathedral Incarnation in Garden City, the Right Rev. Lawrence Provenzano officiating.

The Rev. Madden died Sept. 9 at the age of 80.

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Philip “Phil” Peters, a kind, considerate man known for his deep loyalty to family and friends and a wry sense of humor all his own, passed away peacefully in Englewood, Colo., on Sept. 20, 2017, after a full and rewarding life. Phil was born in Newark, N.J. on Oct. 25, 1918, to Fred Peters and Honora McHugh Peters. After he lost his mother at age 6, his stepmother Margaret Travers Peters joined his family.

Phil was a retired superintendent of schools of the first supervisory school district in Suffolk County and the executive director of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of that school district. He received a bachelor’s degree from Panzer College of the University of Montclair, where he excelled on the track team, and a master’s degree from Seton Hall University. He served in World War II with the U.S. Army in Australia and New Guinea. After the war he taught school in Milltown, N.J. and later on Shelter Island, where he also coached baseball and basketball. Throughout his career his wry wit and way with words made him a highly sought-out speaker.

Phil married Doris Zabel in 1944, and they raised their children, Phyllis, Nancy and Jake, in Shelter Island and Southold. Phil was a sports enthusiast and a lifelong bridge player. After Phil retired in 1979, the couple moved to Gainesville, Fla., where they lived for many years in the Meadowbrook community. Phil played golf daily, twice hitting a hole in one. After Doris passed away, Phil moved in 2011 to a senior retirement community in Englewood, Colo., where he coordinated the bridge club and entertained all with a new-found passion for writing stories about his life.

Phil is survived by daughter, Nancy Peters of Englewood and son Jake Peters (Patty Olson) of Superior, Wis; three nieces, Louise Sheyker (Mike) of Fontana, Wis., Sister Ann-Joyce Peters of Santiago, Chile, and Debbie Nicholson of Crofton, Md.; six grandchildren, Jeremy Valenta and Marnie Valenta of Seattle, Wash., Karima Bounini of Denver, Colo., Fatima Bounini (Mohamed Ouadi) of Beni Mellal, Morocco, and Julia Morris (Jon) and Emma Peters-Axtell of Duluth, Minn. and seven great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife, Doris, his daughter, Phyllis Linn, two brothers, Fred Peters and John Peters, and one sister, Frances Huff.

Cremation was conducted by the Cremation Society of Colorado.

In lieu of flowers, family and friends are invited to donate to the charity of their choice.

This is a paid notice. 

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William J. Jacobs of Cutchogue died Sept. 26 at Southside Hospital. He was 91. 

The family will receive visitors Thursday, Sept. 28, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A funeral service will take place at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 29, at North Fork United Methodist Church in Cutchogue. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to North Fork United Methodist Church.

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Say this about Natalie Kopala, her dad taught her well. Very well.

Kopala is a rookie to school tennis, but hardly a rookie to the sport. She said she has been playing since she was about 5 years old.

“I just play with my dad a lot,” she said, referring to her father Andre.

Now the Southold/Greenport high school team is reaping the benefits of those father-daughter matches. Not only is Kopala an eighth-grader playing first singles for Southold, but she is undefeated. She brought her record to 8-0 Tuesday with her 6-1, 6-1 result against Hampton Bays senior Anna Harris at Hampton Bays Elementary School.

Hampton Bays’ first doubles team of senior Dana Klager and sophomore Marissa Kennedy was one point away from losing in the second set. Instead, they rallied to win a tiebreaker and prevail in a three-setter over sophomores Aly Boyle and Ella Neese. The scores were 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2. That gave Hampton Bays (2-8, 2-7 Suffolk County League VIII) the critical fourth team point in a 4-3 triumph.

“It’s crazy,” Hampton Bays coach Diana Vamvakitis said. “I just try and encourage them to never give up. You never know what’s going to happen. Play every point out like it’s the last point.”

That’s the way Kopala plays.

“There’s no doubt about it, she stands out on the team,” Southold coach Mike Carver said. “She’s going to keep getting better and better.”

Kopala won seven straight games bridging the two sets and then closed out the match by taking the final four games, capping it off with her ninth service ace. She put way 19 winners and outpointed Harris, 53-22.

“I just want to play really good and win a lot of matches and get better,” said Kopala, who went 25-for-35 (71.4 percent) on first serves and made only seven unforced errors. “You can get better and better if you practice more and more.”

Southold’s second singles player, Casie Vaccariello, said: “She’s just fantastic. Like watching her hit her forehands, backhands, her volleys, just all her hits are awesome to watch, and then it makes this really cool sound when she hits them. It’s almost like I’m watching the U.S. Open or something. I heard that she was really good, but I didn’t know that she was that good.”

Since preseason practice began, Kopala went to the top of the ladder and has remained there.

“She doesn’t beat herself,” Carver said. “You have to win points. She’ll rally all day with you. An eighth-grader who plays like that, the sky’s the limit.”

Carver also likes what he’s seeing from his team. Southold (2-6, 2-6) has two wins so far from wins over Hampton Bays and Ross. They are the team’s first wins in more than a handful of years, said Carver.

“We’re doing a lot better this year,” Vaccariello said. She continued: “We’ve been practicing a lot more. We’ve been trying harder and pushing our limits.”

After losing nine seniors from last year’s team, there is not a single senior on the current squad. Southold’s lineup Tuesday included two eighth-graders, three freshmen and four sophomores. “We got all the grades except for seniors and seventh-graders,” said Vaccariello.

Vaccariello didn’t win her match but received a nice compliment from her coach. After Vaccariello lost to Jackie Mujsce, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, Carver told her it was the best he had ever seen her play.

“Hearing him say that, it really helps me move along and play better,” she said.

Danielle Henry brought Southold a point at fourth singles, defeating Riley Stotsky, 6-3, 6-3.

Southold’s second doubles team of Ellie Alloway and Liz Garcia came through with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Ivan Campos and Sylvia Roldan.

In third singles, Hampton Bays’ Brianna Hemmings was a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Kaia Rothman. The Baymen also picked up a point from third doubles, Kat Reich and Nikola Zastkova taking a 6-2, 6-2 result against Hannah DeSimone and Julia Mejsak.

“Right after first singles, I think we’re very balanced,” Carver said. “As a coach, it’s a great feeling knowing what’s coming. It’s hard not thinking I got several years with these girls. It’s only going to get better.”

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Photo caption: Southold/Greenport eighth-grader Natalie Kopala brought her record to 8-0 Tuesday with her 6-1, 6-1 win over Hampton Bays’ Anna Harris. (Credit: Bob Liepa)

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The Adams Street parking lot in Greenport Village will undergo some changes soon that will prohibit vehicles from exiting onto Main Street.

The parking lot currently has two one-way sections: a one-way entrance on the north for vehicles coming from Main Street and a one-way exit on the south leading onto Main Street.

The latter exit will be eliminated, Mayor George Hubbard Jr. said during last Thursday’s Village Board meeting.

The change, which will be made in conjunction with other road and sidewalk projects in the village, will close off the southern exit onto Main Street and require all traffic to loop around and exit onto First Street, Mr. Hubbard said.

“It’s a bad spot,” he said of the current Main Street exit, adding that Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley had asked if the village could improve the traffic pattern there. “People are coming out of the parking lot, going east, and then they try to get back in from Main Street, going west, and they’re blocking traffic.”

Vehicles will still be able to enter the lot from First Street, where the road is one-way heading east.

The plan also involves moving the Rotary Club of Greenport’s gazebo about 20 feet to the west of its current location. That will permit vehicles parked in the southern portion of the lot to turn around and head west to the First Street exit.

Rotary Club of Greenport members raised concerns about whether the gazebo, which was built in the 1980s, could sustain a move.

“We hope it will,” Mr. Hubbard said, adding that the village will do everything necessary to protect the structure.

The Rotary also placed a plaque on the ground next to the gazebo honoring former member V.J. Clark-Brown, according to member Joe Cherepowich. The plaque will also be relocated.

Former Greenport utilities director Bill Swiskey described the village’s plan as “starting a traffic nightmare.” He added that there’s a stop sign less than 100 feet from the parking lot exit onto First Street.

In May, the village authorized a bond of up to $800,000 for reconstruction of various roads, parking areas, sidewalks and curbs in the village. Village administrator Paul Pallas said no additional approvals or expenses are needed to add the Adams Street parking lot work.

The bond project includes widening a section of Main Street between Bay and Central avenues where the eastern side of the roadway would be widened by 22 inches. The project was scheduled to begin this week, but Mr. Pallas said it has been delayed by weather.

Still, he said, it should start “relatively soon.”

The Adams Street parking lot work is expected to begin around the same time, he added.

Mr. Hubbard said the project will create four additional parking spaces.

“This will make the whole block look better,” he said of the overall plans.

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Photo credit: Tim Gannon

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Mental health services for those 18 and younger could be expanded on the North Fork.

Southold Town government liaison officer Denis Noncarrow and Carol Magee, a Family Service League clinical social worker, were at Tuesday’s Town Board work session to discuss establishing a North Fork behavioral health initiative to provide programs and tools to intervene and assist those in need, as the South Fork Behavioral Health Initiative has for the past four years.

The challenge in the region has been that mental health resources for young people are “many miles away,” Mr. Noncarrow said.

The program would cost roughly $200,000 a year, Mr. Noncarrow said. The idea is for North Fork municipalities, schools and organizations chip in to launch the initiative, as South Fork entities did, and organizers are asking the town to earmark $10,000 toward it. State Sen. Ken LaValle will also work to secure funds, Mr. Noncarrow said.

The South Fork program was a response to several teen suicides that caused “great alarm” in the community, Ms. Magee said. The Family Service League, state and local officials, private practitioners, schools and local hospitals then formed a partnership to offer students help.

When a South Fork student indicates they might hurt himself or herself at school, the league is contacted and deploys a social worker to their school to assess the situation. If the risk of harm is imminent, social workers do not need permission from parents to intervene, though they do attempt to reach them, Ms. Magee explained. Parental consent is required under any other circumstance, she said.

Before the creation of that program, at-risk students would be taken to Stony Brook University Hospital via police car, she said.

Southold Town offers training on suicide prevention to the community at no cost through the Family Service League and it’s a goal to train as many people as possible, youth bureau director Lynn Nyilas noted.

Town board member Louisa Evans pointed out that this initiative won’t help Fishers Island, which has been working to get counseling for adults and children because, given the island’s distance from New York, most services are in Connecticut and are not always covered by insurance.

Councilman William Ruland said he fully supported offering town funds for the initiative to support local youth and have a positive impact. The issues are more than “kids being kids,” he said.

Councilman Bob Ghosio asked if people are available on the North Fork to support the initiative, and Ms. Magee said the collaborative funds will help secure professionals for the Family Service League’s existing clinic in Mattituck.

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Photo: Family Service League clinical social worker Carol Magee (left) at Tuesday’s Town Board work session. She’s working to expand mental health services for local youth. (Credit: Kelly Zegers)

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