Common Core protesters to hold public forum in Riverhead
CARRIE MILLER FILE PHOTO | Educators packed a forum at Eastport-South Manor High School in December to express their displeasure over Common Core. East End education advocates have organized a public...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Concerned Porters drop their fourth straight
WILDCATS 64, PORTERS 46 Difficult but doable. That was the assessment Shoreham-Wading River coach Kevin Culhane gave of his boys basketball team’s chances of qualifying for the playoffs for the third...
View ArticleCops: Man caught driving under influence of drugs
A 44-year-old Calverton man was arrested for driving while under the influence of drugs Saturday morning in Mattituck, Southold Town police said. John C. Brophy was stopped for failing to maintain his...
View ArticleFrom farmhouse to 24-hour care facility
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | General contractor Roy Schweers and New Beginnings founder Allyson Scerri outside the old farmhouse on Sound Avenue being renovated for Brendan House, a long-term care...
View ArticleFamily remembers Andrew Leone’s ‘good heart’
COURTESY PHOTO | Andrew Leone, in a photo provided by family and taken in 2003. Thursday was Andrew Leone’s first day back on the job. The 30-year-old Southold resident had worked around the North...
View ArticleLocal lecture on influenza pandemic stresses importance of flu shot
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Dr. Robert Bramson explains the deadly realities of the 1918 influenza pandemic at Saturday afternoon’s lecture. Dr. Robert Bramson, a retired physician from the Children’s Hospital...
View ArticleCops: Man charged with raping young girl in Greenport
A 20-year-old Greenport man has been arrested for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl in the village, Southold Town Police said in a press release issued Sunday afternoon....
View ArticleCar skids off roadway near Broadwaters Creek
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO | The area near where a car skid off the roadway at Broadwaters Creek Sunday morning. A 24-year-old Westhampton woman escaped uninjured Sunday morning after her car skid on an...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Otis Pike remembered, bus shelters and snow
PIKE FAMILY COURTESY PHOTO | A recent photo of Otis Pike playing a banjo at a family party. Here are some of The Suffolk Times stories you may have missed this week. To make sure you stay on top of...
View ArticleOfficers who saved crash victim’s life honored at police awards dinner
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | From left, Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley with this year’s Officer of the Year award honorees Rory Flatley and Richard Jernick Jr. Southold Town police officers Rory...
View ArticleSouthold High School holding meeting about ‘Rent’ script
The Southold High School Drama Club will host a “parent meeting” tonight at 5 p.m. in the school auditorium to address questions about script content for an upcoming production of “Rent,” a rock...
View ArticleHelen Arlene Rutkowski
Longtime Greenport resident Helen Arlene Rutkowski died Jan. 22. She was 84. The family received visitors Sunday, Jan. 26 at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral service took place Jan....
View ArticleAfter revelations, Greenport mayor to explain December jump in electric bills
CYNDI MURRAY FILE PHOTO | Mayor David Nyce is expected to explain the penalty charge the village incurred over the summer during Monday night’s meeting. Greenport Mayor David Nyce is expected to...
View ArticleMary Ann (Sabolsky) Sieczka
Mary Ann (Sabolsky) Sieczka of Mattituck and The Villages, Fla. died Jan. 25. She was 70. The family will receive visitors Friday, Jan. 31, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in...
View ArticleBellone to discuss nitrogen pollution in live tele-conference tonight
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Steve Bellone has signed the 2014 county budget. County Executive Steven Bellone will be hosting a live tele-conference tonight to discuss what he calls the region’s...
View ArticleSamuel Luque Jr.
Samuel Luque Jr. of Sarasota, Fla., and Greenport died Jan. 8, 2014, in Florida. He was 70. He was born Sept. 24, 1943, to Samuel and Ethelle Luque of Long Island City, Queens, the first of six...
View ArticleEmma F. Tschiember
Emma F. Tschiember of Southold died Jan. 20, 2014, at San Simeon by the Sound nursing home in Greenport. She was 91. She was born in Queens Sept. 29, 1922, to Leopold and Emma (Maulin) Kusold. A...
View ArticleLeonard Beckenstein
Mattituck resident Leonard (Lenny) Beckenstein, 88, died peacefully in his sleep Jan. 27, 2014. Lenny grew up in Brooklyn. His mother, born Agnes Murray, was a Ziegfeld dancer who met her husband,...
View ArticleDonald R. Clark
Donald R. Clark, longtime Shelter Island resident, died peacefully in his home on Jan. 20, 2014. He was 95. Mr. Clark was born March 25, 1918, in Greenport and attended Greenport High School. After...
View ArticleWilliam H.G. Barnett
William H.G. Barnett of Southold died at his home Jan. 24, 2014. He was 75. He was born in Port Jefferson July 25, 1938, to Louis and Elizabeth Barnett. A graduate of The Stony Brook School, he...
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