Recap: Southold Town Board discusses amending wetland code
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | The Southold Town Board meeting held a meeting Tuesday night. The Southold Town Board held a meeting Tuesday night and closed public hearings to add new no parking areas...
View ArticleBaseball: Ospreys-Tomcats game, tied after 12, suspended
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | North Fork starter Mike Tamburino gave up two hits and no earned runs over five innings. OSPREYS 2, TOMCATS 2 (12 INNINGS, SUSPENDED) There are not supposed to be ties in baseball....
View ArticleGolf Gazette: Car salesman from Mattituck is a hole-in-one machine
JAY DEMPSEY PHOTO | Steve Duke has been a success at selling cars and playing golf. Back in 1980, I took a job selling cars for Buzzy Chew at Kinney Chevrolet-Oldsmobile in Riverhead. Cars were really...
View ArticleLocal students earned high marks at college this semester
• Sarah Conlin of Cutchogue, a student at Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, has been named to the spring dean’s list there. She also won the Class of 1879 Prize from the college’s department of...
View ArticleJose Hernandez
Longtime Orient resident Jose Hernandez died May 31 at the age of 56. Born Sept. 27, 1955, in Brooklyn to Laura Hernandez, he completed high school at BOCES. Mr. Hernandez married Ivonne Bird in...
View ArticleMan arrested in Greenport for stabbing on Shelter Island
Shelter Island Police responded to a 911 call on Sunday, June 3 and found a man bleeding heavily from a knife wound at a Shelter Island residence. An EMS team transported him to Eastern Long Island...
View ArticleReader photo of the day: Something you’ll never see again
WILL BURKHARD PHOTO | The Venus transit is a once-in-a-lifetime event that won't happen again until 2117. Did you miss the Venus transit Tuesday? Reader Will Burkard was at Reeves Beach when he caught...
View ArticlePlanning Board discusses former Mill Creek Inn site
BETH YOUNG FILE PHOTO | The former Mill Creek Inn restaurant and Marina building near Southold. There was little comment at a public hearing Monday evening on a site plan for work at the former Mill...
View ArticleOrient FD rescue team saves boater in the Sound
The Orient Fire Department’s rescue team took to the water Tuesday evening to collect a fisherman in the Sound said to be in great pain with arm and leg injuries and bring him by boat and ambulance to...
View ArticleLegislature approves drilling fire supression wells in Pine Barrens
PAUL SQUIRE FILE PHOTO | A firefighter drags a hose during the April wildfires in Riverhead Town. The Suffolk County Legislature approved a resolution to drill fire suppression wells in the Pine...
View ArticleAcclaimed Aquebogue trumpet player performing free local concert
A free outdoor concert with trumpet player Alex Sipiagin is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at Peconic Bay Winery in Cutchogue. This will be the North Fork horn player’s only Long Island performance this...
View ArticleIt’s Strawberry Festival time this weekend in Mattituck
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Cassie Whalen of Suffern was 11 months old when she visited the Mattituck Lions Club's Strawberry Festival last June. Maybe this year, she'll stay awake. The 58th annual...
View ArticleEastern Long Island Hospital Golf Classic rescheduled for Monday
REPORTER FILE PHOTO | A high school golfer plays Gardiner's Bay last year. Eastern Long Island Hospital’s 20th Annual Golf Classic at Gardiner’s Bay Country Club that was slated for today, has been...
View ArticleJoyce Zevits
Joyce Zevits of Southold died June 12 at the age of 53. Funeral arrangements, incomplete at presstime, are being handled by DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Homes.
View ArticleSag Harbor approves Greenport ferry plan; one hurdle left
JENNIFER GUSTAVSON FILE PHOTO | Mattituck business owner Jim Ryan aboard the proposed water taxi earlier this month. The first-ever Greenport-Sag Harbor passenger ferry is poised to launch later this...
View ArticleCleanup scheduled for Goldsmith Inlet this Saturday
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Local teens swim in the inlet last summer. Goldsmith Inlet will get its spring cleaning this weekend, when several community groups take to the beach to remove debris...
View ArticleWATCH: NY1 calls Greenport a great place to eat
A travel reporter for the New York City television channel NY1 was in Greenport recently for a piece on the many fine options for food and drink in the village. Mentioned in the piece was the North...
View ArticleSports Briefs: Sign up for the Bob Wall Tennis Tournament
GARRET MEADE FILE PHOTO | Chris Ujkic won his third straight men's singles title at last year's Bob Wall Tennis Tournament. TENNIS: Registrations are being accepted for the Bob Wall Memorial Tennis...
View ArticleColumn: That show was plum disappointing
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | A bird's eye view of Plum Island. Charles Kuralt probably rolled over in his grave last weekend during the airing of the “CBS Sunday Morning” piece on Plum Island. I tuned in...
View ArticleLetters: Look to the future graduates, not the past
JAY WEBSTER FILE PHOTO | The Mattituck Class of 2011 celebrates graduation last year. SOUTHOLD Just do your best This is the season for dishing advice to graduates. Most advice, while well-intentioned,...
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