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Southold may host referendum to transfer funds for roof repair

By Beth Young | 02/22/2012 7:38 AM | Featured Stories, News, Southold School District, Top News

The Southold School District may add a second referendum to the ballot in May to transfer funds to replace the high school roof, Southold School Board president Paulette Ofrias said at last week's meeting. The district will likely hold a referendum on moving a large amount of money from the repair...

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Girls Basketball: Busso’s 16 points helps Southold win C-D game

By Bob Liepa | 02/21/2012 8:42 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS C-D FINAL | FIRST SETTLERS 48, INDIANS 35 One night after winning the Suffolk County Class C girls basketball championship, Southold won the Suffolk Class C-D final, beating Shelter Island, 48-35, on Tuesday night. Playing on the same St. Joseph’s College court for the second time in 24 hours, Southold...

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Cops: Drunk Mattituck man led police on high-speed car chase

By The Suffolk Times | 02/21/2012 10:42 AM | Police News, Top News

A Mattituck man led police on a high-speed car chase through Mattituck before he was stopped and charged with DWI just after 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 17, according to police reports. Police said they attempted to stop Phillip Wanat, 20, for a traffic violation on Bergen Avenue, after which he fled...

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North Fork restaurateurs share the secrets to what makes a good restaurant

By Jane Starwood | 02/21/2012 9:00 AM | Business, Featured Stories, News, Top News

To have a successful restaurant you gotta love it. So says Rachel Levin Murphy, manager of her family’s landmark Greenport eatery, the Soundview. “It’s fabulous, fun, fascinating and challenging, but I love to work hard and I enjoy people. Every day is an adventure.” We asked Ms. Murphy and other area restaurateurs...

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This Week in North Fork History: Lawmakers oppose bottle bill, redistricting plan

By Grant Parpan | 02/21/2012 7:00 AM | Featured Stories, News, Top News

Excerpts from Suffolk Times and News-Review issues published between 30 and 100 years ago this week: 30 years ago ... Democratic plan would split Assembly district "They're trying to break up Peconic County." That was the reaction in February 1982 from East End Assemblyman John Behan over a Democratic reapportionment plan to split...

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Girls Basketball: Southold rolls to Suffolk Class C championship

By Michael Lewis | 02/21/2012 12:05 AM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS C FINAL | FIRST SETTLERS 46, WHALERS 19 Southold captured the Suffolk County Class C girls basketball title with a 46-19 victory over Pierson/Bridgehampton at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Monday night. Junior forward Melissa Rogers scored 6 of her game-high 14 points in the first quarter as the...

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Boys Basketball: Bridgehampton freshman stings Porters in county final

By Bob Liepa | 02/20/2012 9:10 PM | Featured Stories, Sports, Top News

SUFFOLK CLASS D FINAL | KILLER BEES 73, PORTERS 50 The Bridgehampton boys basketball team had waited long enough. It had been 12 years — 12 long years — since the team’s last Suffolk County championship, so when the Killer Bees claimed their first county crown since 2000 on Monday, it...

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BLOG RECAP: Southold takes down Pierson for Class C title

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/20/2012 7:44 PM | Featured Stories, Sports

The top-seeded Southold girls basketball had little trouble taking out No. 2 Pierson/Bridgehampton Monday night to clinch the Class C county championship, 46-19, at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue. Southold advances to play a non-elimination game against Class D champion Shelter Island Tuesday back at St. Joseph's. The First Settlers will...

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BLOG RECAP: Greenport falls 73-50 in Class D finals

By Joe Werkmeister | 02/20/2012 3:45 PM | Featured Stories, Sports

The Greenport boys basketball team fell 73-50 Monday afternoon against Bridgehampton in the Class D county championship game at Suffolk Community College in Selden. The Porters were aiming for their seventh title in the last eight years. Instead, the Killer Bees — a basketball dynasty in the '80s and '90s —...

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Do any North Fork car dealers have an automobile for you?

By Julie Lane | 02/20/2012 2:27 PM | Business, Featured Stories, News, Top News

It’s all about mileage, right? That’s what you’d think would be driving vehicle sales and leases at a time when gas prices are almost $1 a gallon higher than at the same time in 2011 — and still rising. But while fuel efficiency is among the driving forces for people entering...

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VIDEO: Watch Ken LaValle’s environmental roundtable

By The Suffolk Times | 02/20/2012 12:07 PM | Featured Stories, News, Videos

Senator Ken LaValle hosted his annual environmental roundtable event earlier this month. The event, which also featured several other East End lawmakers along with local environmental leaders, was broadcast by Hamptons TV and shared on their YouTube channel. Watch the 90-minute video below: PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE ...

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Two North Fork businesses that used Kickstarter to realize dreams

By Lee Peters | 02/20/2012 10:30 AM | Business, Featured Stories, News, Top News

Besides hard work and a clear vision, what do the entrepreneurs of two small North Fork businesses — one in Southold and one in East Marion — have in common? Kickstarter. What? Yes, Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects, according to its website, kickstarter.com. The website states, “Kickstarter...

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Monday Briefing: The only place where contests are held for Oscar picks and naming a wild turkey

By Grant Parpan | 02/20/2012 7:46 AM | Columns, Featured Stories, Top News

Maybe the Polish eagle should be changed to a turkey. That's one joke Polish Town resident and News-Review photographer Barbaraellen Koch emailed me over the weekend, in a thread about a wild turkey that's been seen roaming around Polish Town for about two weeks now. We spoke with some of BE's...

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Real Estate: Check out one of the North Fork’s more unique offices

By Samantha Brix | 02/19/2012 8:00 PM | Featured Stories, Real Estate

The only rehearsing going on nowadays in this former Mattituck theater involves courtroom drama. In a building where 19th-century North Fork families once put on plays and operas, two trial lawyers now ply their trade as personal injury attorneys, giving a whole new meaning to the term “break a leg.” The unique...

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Three generations share their story of growing up black in Greenport

By Paul Squire | 02/19/2012 4:00 PM | Featured Stories, News, Top News

William Cosby, a 33-year-old emergency medical technician and Greenport native, said he didn't experience direct prejudice during his childhood. "[There] wasn't really a lot of racism," he said. "It was known, not shown." Mr. Cosby was part of three generations of an extended local black family who shared their stories about living...

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Try Mattituck woman’s winning chicken salad recipe

By Gianna Volpe | 02/19/2012 12:00 PM | Community, Featured Stories, Top News

Anne Bialeski of Mattituck is getting her 15 minutes of fame — and maybe more — thanks to her fondness for chicken salad. After working for 25 years in doctors’ offices, she hardly considers herself a professional cook. Even so, Ms. Bialeski was recently named a finalist in Smucker’s $20,000 traditions...

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Cops: Steak thief exposed himself inside Waldbaum’s

By The Suffolk Times | 02/19/2012 8:26 AM | Featured Stories, Police News, Top News

A Southold man unzipped his pants and exposed himself inside Waldbaum's in Mattituck Friday after he was caught trying to steal steak, Southold Town Police said. Kenneth McKay, 49, was charged with petit larceny and public lewdness. Police said he tried to conceal $80 worth of steaks inside his shirt but was...

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Photos: Wading River restaurant among winners at Clovis Point Chili Cookoff

By Barbaraellen Koch | 02/19/2012 7:00 AM | At the Wineries, Featured Stories, News, Top News

Clovis Point Vineyard in Jamesport held its first Chili Cookoff Saturday, an event that raised more than $1,500 to support Group for the East End. The event featured a dozen entries — eight amateur, four professional — competing for three prizes. Catherine and Edward Zawadski of Selden won the overall prize...

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