Volunteer veterans work to restore American Legion Hall
CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | Richard Clark helped paint the exterior wall at the American Legion Hall in Greenport Saturday. American Legion Halls across the country will hold Memorial Day celebrations next...
View ArticleOngoing Marion Lake restoration project impacted by Sandy
CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | Biologist Steve Marino inspects the damage superstorm Sandy caused to Lake Marion. The restoration of Marion Lake suffered a setback after Hurricane Sandy swept through East Marion...
View ArticleLaurel woman’s novel published posthumously
RICHARD EHLERS COURTESY PHOTO | Alix Ehlers’ first novel, ‘A Power in the Blood,’ is now available on amazon.com, 13 years after the Laurel resident’s death. The book was e-published after her sister,...
View ArticleCops: Two drivers charged with DWI Sunday
Two men were arrested for driving drunk on the North Fork Sunday, according to Southold Town police. James Cavanaugh, 55, of Kings Park was stopped around 2:30 a.m. for vehicle and traffic violations...
View ArticleNorth Forkers preparing for boxwood blight
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | A customer, Lucille Kurtz, inspects a boxwood plant at Verderber’s Landscape Nursery and Garden Center in Riverhead. No cases have been reported on the North Fork. Landscapers,...
View ArticleWrite-in campaigns launched for open Mattituck school board seat
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Jeff Smith confirmed this week that he’s running in Tuesday’s Mattituck school board election. Suddenly the Mattituck school board election is no longer a sure thing. Although...
View ArticleSterling Street parking law to be discussed at Village work session
SUFFOLK TIMES FILE PHOTO | Greenport Village officials will discuss a proposed Sterling Street parking ban at tonight’s work session. Greenport Village officials will discuss a proposed amendment to a...
View ArticleSee who’s running for your school board
School board seats are up in each local school district Tuesday, but only Oysterponds features a race. Oysterponds The Oysterponds School District not only has the most candidates running in this...
View ArticleThis the school budget you’ll vote on Tuesday
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Students attend Greenport School on the first day last September. Budgets in all local school districts will be voted on Tuesday. North Fork residents will go to the...
View ArticleBaseball: Vila’s three-hitter sends Southold into loser’s bracket
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Southold’s Anthony Fedele was tagged out by Pierson/Bridgehampton catcher Aaron Schiavoni while trying to score what would have been a tying run in the sixth inning. SUFFOLK COUNTY...
View ArticleBaseball: Mattituck keeps its postseason alive
SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS B TOURNAMENT | TUCKERS 13, PANTHERS 5 The Mattituck baseball team survives to play another day. In a game in which every Tucker reached base safely, Mattituck eliminated Babylon as...
View ArticleLocal off-duty cop helps save Wading River man’s life
SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE COURTESY PHOTO | Pictured from left to right are Sixth Precinct Officer Anthony Passarella, Sixth Precinct Officer Frank Ribaudo, Emergency Service Section Officer Lance Prager of...
View ArticleFerdinand Lucka
Ferdinand (Fred) Lucka of Mattituck died May 18. He was 91. Mr. Lucka was predeceased by his wife, Beatrice, on Sept. 2, 2006. Both had been active members of the Knights of Lithuania. Visiting hours...
View ArticleSquire on why he withdrew from school board race
KATHARINE SCHROEDER FILE PHOTO | Charles Squire confirmed Tuesday he’s withdrawing from today’s Oysterponds school board election. Orient resident Charles Squire released the following statement about...
View ArticleSaul Kerwin Graeb
Saul Kerwin Graeb died on the day of his birth, May 11, surrounded by family. Family members said his brief life touched many hearts. Saul is survived by his parents, former Cutchogue resident Michael...
View ArticlePhilomena Soto
Longtime Greenport resident Philomena “Mina” Soto died at her home May 16, 2013. She was 85. She was born Aug. 12, 1927, in Brooklyn to Anthony and Josephine (Cecora) Esposito. She married Angel Soto...
View ArticleBrian C. Evans
Brian C. Evans of Cutchogue died May 15, 2013. He was 60. He was born in Queens to Leroy and Helen Catherine (Kaloski) Evans. Brian had been a first-class machinist and worked for Future Screw Machine...
View ArticleLoretta Cullen
Loretta “Laura” Cullen of Cutchogue, on Monday, May 13, 2013, surrounded by her children, quietly passed into her husband’s waiting spirit. Fifty-two years together created a bond that death could not...
View ArticleRecap: North Fork budgets pass by wide margins, runoff for Oysterponds board...
All five school districts on the North Fork saw their proposed budgets pass by Tuesday night by wide margins. In the school board race for three open seats at Oysterponds, two candidates —...
View ArticleTrack and Field: SWR’s Udvadia, Fleming score triumphs
DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS It was typical Ryan Udvadia. After the Division III 3,200-meter final started, the Shoreham-Wading River junior was hanging well back in the bottom third of the field, as if...
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