SLIDE SHOW: Second annual Survival Race in Riverhead
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO More than 4,000 runners signed up for this year’s Riverhead Survival Race held at the 4-H camp on Sound Avenue Saturday. That’s 1,000 more than those who participated in last year’s...
View ArticleColumn: A not-always-misspent life revisited
It’s a clear indication that you’ve reached a certain age when your social calendar, usually based on trips to the dump or the supermarket, now includes reunions. By definition, a reunion is a...
View ArticleEast End doctors treating tick-borne meat allergy
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION COURTESY PHOTO | The connection between the red meat allergy and the lone star tick (pictured) went undiscovered until 2009. It was Super Bowl Sunday. The Seattle Seahawks...
View ArticlePhotos: Greenport students perform in annual variety show
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Jeremiah King Smith, Vaughn Edwards and Thomas Kruszeski dancing. Greenport School held its annual talent show Saturday night in the auditorium. Students from grades K-12...
View ArticleAuction company eyes smaller, 10- to 15-acre EPCAL deal
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Sandy cars parked on the western runway at EPCAL. Riverhead Town’s agreement to lease runway space at Enterprise Park at Calverton to a company storing flood-damaged cars from...
View ArticleRaphael’s Anthony Nappa wasn’t always enraptured by vino
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Winemaker Anthony Nappa with dogs Beckett and Smooch in the Raphael winery storeroom. Growing up in the outskirts of Boston, Anthony Nappa couldn’t have imagined that his life...
View ArticleCops: Woman charged with DWI in Greenport
A Miller Place woman was arrested for driving drunk in Greenport Saturday night, Southold Town police said. Patricia Hearn, 61, was driving westbound on Route 25 near Albertson Lane in Greenport...
View ArticleOfficials to vote on Sunday bus service expansion Tuesday
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | A vote to expand Sunday bus service is expected to take place at the County Legislature’s general meeting May 7 in Hauppauge. Suffolk Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I-Montauk)...
View ArticleThree fires cause busy week for Jamesport firefighters
JAMESPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT COURTESY PHOTO | A motorcycle burst into flames Friday, the second incident in a busy week for the volunteers. The summer season is just a month away but the Jamesport Fire...
View ArticleAdagio Day Spa will open Thursday in Cutchogue
ADAGIO DAY SPA COURTESY PHOTO | Adagio Day Spa will open May 9 in Cutchogue. A new day spa in Cutchogue is opening its doors just in time for Mother’s Day. Adagio Day Spa will open May 9 on Main Road,...
View ArticleYankee Stadium bound, ALS Ride for Life crosses North Fork
TIM KELLY PHOTO | Gerry Hayden and Chris Pendergast make their way down Old Sound Avenue in Mattituck on Monday, the first day of the annual Ride for Life event. The annual ALS Ride for Life event,...
View ArticleComplaint: Man arrested after phone calls to teen
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Cesar Muralles escorted by police into Southold Town Justice Court Monday afternoon. The 61-year-old Southold man accused of stalking a 19-year-old Southold woman over two months...
View ArticlePlum Island Homeland Security drill on Tuesday
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | A ferry in Plum Gut passes by the Plum Island animal disease research laboratory. If you’re out and about at the tip of the North Fork Tuesday morning and see a knot of military...
View ArticleBertha Rutkoski Bokina
Former longtime Riverhead resident Bertha Rutkoski Bokina died April 30. She was 92 years old. She was born July 21, 1920, to John and Laura (Wagner) Rutkoski and attended the Mattituck School House....
View ArticleAllen R. Ovsianik
Lifelong Cutchogue resident Allen R. Ovsianik died May 6 at the age of 84. He was born in Peconic, one of Monika and Vincent Ovsianik’s seven children. All his siblings predeceased him. Allen served...
View ArticleBertha J. Zimnoski
Bertha J. Zimnoski of Laurel died May 3 at her home. She was 91 years old. She was born Nov. 24, 1921, to John and Amelia (Chituk) Simchick. Bert had been a homemaker, farmer and landscaper. She was a...
View ArticleBaseball: Big game for Poliwoda as Southold clinches playoff berth
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Southold’s Dillon Engels is tagged out by Greenport’s Matt Drinkwater while trying to steal third base in the fifth inning. FIRST SETTLERS 6, PORTERS 1 The team of the future has a...
View ArticlePlum Island zoning hearing at Town Hall tonight
Residents will weigh in on Southold Town’s long-awaited plan to zone Plum Island tonight. The proposal would divide Plum Island into three zoning districts. The Plum Island Research District would...
View ArticleState officials available today to assist Sandy victims
FILE PHOTO | An aerial view of Rabbit Lane in East Marion following Superstorm Sandy. State officials will be available Wednesday to assist victims of Superstorm Sandy looking to apply for recovery and...
View ArticleBoys Tennis: Southold doubles team headed to counties
The Southold/Greenport doubles team of juniors Will Richter and Dylan Stromski already had one successful season together on their resume coming into this year. So it came as no surprise when the duo...
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