B&Bs offering nuptials for couples who want to avoid ‘the hoopla’
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | The bedroom at The Farmer’s House Bed and Breakfast where couples can purchase elopement packages for a more intimate, smaller wedding. Shortly after Joyce and Robert Barry...
View ArticleQ&A: Coverdale co-chairs black, Hispanic Democratic committee
MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO | Shirley Covedale at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead property, where she’s long pushed to get an apartment complex and community center built to provide affordable housing...
View ArticleWatch the latest episode of ‘The Vineyard’ featuring Cutchogue native
COURTESY PHOTO | Katie Tardif (left) with fellow cast members from “The Vineyard.” As the premier season of ABC Family’s “The Vineyard“ winds down, Cutchogue native Katie Tardif finds herself as a...
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BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | Summertime at Iron Pier Beach in Northville. Summertime can be an especially beautiful time to take pictures when traveling across the North Fork. In our northforker.com...
View ArticleCops: Report of plane crash in L.I. Sound a false alarm
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Riverhead police Sgt. John Vail (center) scans the Sound as Police Officers Christopher Parkin (left) and Rich Freeborn watch on. Police and firefighters from across the area...
View ArticleColumn: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road
STEVE ROSSIN PHOTO | LIRR riders board an eastbound train out of Riverhead earlier this summer. It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the...
View ArticleCops: Unlicensed driver caught driving drunk in Mattituck
A 27-year-old man driving without a license was arrested for DWI in Mattituck early Sunday, Southold Town police said. Police spotted Cesar Chavez-Ruiz of Mattituck swerving in and out of his lane...
View ArticleSouthold Police announce five arrests at DWI checkpoints
Five drivers were arrested at DWI checkpoints set up throughout Southold Town by the East End DWI Task Force Saturday night and early Sunday morning, town police said. Below is a list of those...
View ArticleMattituck man charged with DWI after truck flips in two-car crash
JAMESPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT COURTESY PHOTO A Mattituck man has been arrested after he was involved in a two-car accident along Main Road in Jamesport where one of the vehicles flipped over and landed...
View ArticleColleagues speak highly of Greenport’s outgoing superintendent
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The Greenport school board approved Superintendent Michael Comanda’s retirement request Aug. 21. Greenport School District officials, teachers and administrators said they...
View ArticleEditorial: What does Labor Day mean to you?
One of the things the British get right is leaving the long weekends that begin and end summer without names weighed down with significance. Over there they’re called “bank holidays,” a generic term...
View ArticleFeatured Letter: Saddened by the passing of Bill Lynch
LYNCH FAMILY COURTESY PHOTO | Civil rights activist Bill Lynch of Mattituck. To the Editor: Having read about the death of Bill Lynch this week, I was reminded of my frequent encounters with Bill while...
View ArticleSouthold Pharmacy still in the family as it turns 50
SOUTHOLD PHARMACY COURTESY PHOTO | The pharmacy soon after it opened in 1963. Jackie Baker of Mattituck woke-up feeling ill one morning. She needed a prescription refilled. It was about 2 a.m. and the...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Education in 2013 and beyond
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Southold Union Free School District superintendent David Gamberg at a board of education meeting earlier this year. As we embark on the start of a new school year,...
View ArticlePhotos: Labor Day weekend across the North Fork
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Patrons at Claudio’s Clam Bar in Greenport. Photographer Katharine Schroeder spent the past few days documenting the many ways North Fork residents and visitors spend Labor...
View ArticleCops: Greenport man arrested for DWI
A 26-year-old Greenport man was charged with driving while intoxicated after being stopped at 3:20 a.m. Monday, Southold Town police said. Roberto E. Garrido was stopped for failing to maintain his...
View ArticleRed tape for loan slows Greenport Brewery construction in Peconic
GIANNA VOLPE FILE PHOTO | Greenport Harbor Brewing Company co-owner Rich Vandenburgh in front of the company’s proposed Peconic location in February. Delayed while paperwork was compiled for the banks,...
View ArticleKatharina G. Scheideler
Katharina G. Scheideler of Mattituck died at her home Aug. 29, 2013. She was 73 years old. She was born Feb. 14, 1940, in Germany and came to the United States 25 years ago. Formerly of Tenafly, N.J.,...
View ArticleMuriel Kunz Schwindt
Muriel Kunz Schwindt of Southold died Aug. 28, 2013, at her home. She was 89 years old. She was born Feb. 5, 1924, at home in Brooklyn to George and Maria (Kolb) Kunz and graduated from Jamaica High...
View ArticleRobert A. Potdevin
Robert A. (Bob) Potdevin died peacefully Aug. 11, 2013, at his home in Laurel. He was 86 years old. Bob was the patriarch of the Potdevin family and preferred family gatherings on Great Peconic Bay...
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