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Sports

Baseball: Mattituck keeps its postseason alive

May 20, 2013

Baseball: Vila’s three-hitter sends Southold into loser’s bracket

May 20, 2013

Auto Racing: After three years, Brode breaks into victory lane

May 19, 2013

Education

This is the school budget you'll vote on Tuesday

May 20, 2013

See who's running for your school board

May 20, 2013

Write-in campaigns launched for open Mattituck school board seat

May 20, 2013

Business

Local farmers say they're not the one with issues

May 19, 2013

New vermouth, Atsby, made in Mattituck

May 13, 2013

Sushi, hibachi restaurant now open in Greenport

May 12, 2013

Community

Ongoing Marion Lake restoration project impacted by Sandy

May 19, 2013

Photos: Hallockville's Fleece and Fiber Fair

May 19, 2013

Art class receives wisdom from area seniors

May 17, 2013

Obituaries

Carlisle E. Cochran

May 15, 2013

Oleta Marie Melissari

May 14, 2013

Laura D. Cullen

May 14, 2013

Real Estate

North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight

May 20, 2013

Real Estate Transfers

May 10, 2013

Real Estate Transfers

May 2, 2013

Opinion

Column: Paying my dues — a tale of three unions

May 18, 2013

Editorial: Let’s hear from the public on for-profit races

May 16, 2013

Featured Letter: Let's cherish the North Fork

May 16, 2013

Obituaries

  • Carlisle E. Cochran

    Carlisle E. Cochran

    Longtime Southold resident Carlisle Evans Cochran, known as “Pep,” died at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport on May 14. He was 84. Pep was born on Aug. 15, 1928, to Carlisle and Edith (Thornhill) Cochran at ELIH in Greenport and was christened at First Universalist Church in Southold, which was...

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  • Oleta Marie Melissari

    Oleta Marie Melissari of Laurel died at her home on May 5, 2013, after a long illness. She was 87. She was born March 19, 1926, in Willard, Mo. She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Placid Edward Melissari, in 1996. Marie previously resided in Flushing, where she was a...

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  • Laura D. Cullen

    Laura D. Cullen of Cutchogue died May 13 at Stony Brook University Medical Center. She was 74. The family will receive visitors Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A service will take place Saturday, May 18,...

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  • Dorothy C. Ulrich

    Dorothy C. Ulrich of Southold and Venice, Fla., went home to be with her Lord on May 5, 2013. She was 90. She was born March 11, 1923, in Jersey City, N.J., to Theodore W. and Helen (Demont) Crawbuck. After graduating from Snyder High School, she was employed as a secretarial...

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  • Helen Wright Prince

    Former Southold resident Helen Wright Prince passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in Fairport, N.Y. She was 101. She was born in Columbus, N.J., to the late William Wright and Ione Hankins Wright on Oct. 21, 1911. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Frederic...

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  • Rodney Kenneth Wells

    Rodney Kenneth Wells of Greenport died at his home in the village on May 7, 2013, at the age of 104. He was a direct descendant of the original Wells family, one of Southold’s First Settlers. He was born July 18, 1908, in Peconic to Carrie L. Weller and John DeForest...

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  • Daniel Martin Dzenkowski

    Daniel Martin Dzenkowski of East Marion passed away peacefully at his home May 12 with his family by his side. He was 85. He was born Aug. 5, 1927, at the East Marion home of his parents, Andrew and Apolonia Dzenkowski. After graduating from Greenport High School in 1944, he enlisted...

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  • John ‘Ricky’ Ulp

    John 'Ricky' Ulp

    John “Ricky” Ulp of Southold died peacefully May 8 at Eastern Long Island Hospital, Greenport. He was 71. He was the son of John (a music teacher at Southold school) and Edith Ulp; brother to David and a member of a very loving family, all of whom predeceased him. However, Ricky...

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  • Oleta Marie Melissari

    Laurel resident Oleta Marie Melissari died May 5 at her home. She was 83. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday, May 13, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck. Interment will follow at Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery in Flushing. Funeral arrangements were handled...

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  • Rodney Wells

    Rodney Wells of Greenport died May 7 at his home. He was 104. Funeral arrangements, incomplete at presstime, are being handled by DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold....

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  • William Joseph Breen

    William “Bill” Joseph Breen of Cutchogue and Sarasota, Fla., died May 4 at his home in Cutchogue after losing his fight with cancer. He was 83. Born August 26, 1929, in Mineola, he was the third child and oldest son of William and Elizabeth (Reilly) Breen. He was predeceased by his...

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  • Bertha 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 fan of the N.Y. Yankees and enjoyed watching soap operas and listening to...

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  • Allen 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 four years in the U.S. Navy, then returned to work on the family farm. He was later employed...

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  • Bertha 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. She married Stanley Bokina at Our Lady of Ostrabrama R.C. Church in Cutchogue on Nov. 22, 1942, and...

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  • Linda Pisacano

    Linda Pisacano of Riverhead died April 16. She was 55 years old. She was born Nov. 21, 1957, in Huntington to Gasper and Adeline Pisacano. Formerly a Southold resident, she was a bookkeeper at Capital One for twenty years and most recently served in hospitality for Roanoke Vineyards. She was a member...

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  • Kathryn S. Hildreth

    Kathryn S. Hildreth, of Westwood, Mass., died April 20 at her home in Fox Hill Village. She was 103. Born Oct. 31, 1909, to Dr. Clarence Hawthorne and Ruth (Clarke) Staples, she was raised in Malden, Mass., attended local schools and spent one year at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C.,...

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  • Frances K. Demarest

    Frances K. Demarest of Orient died Nov. 17, 2012. She was 89. Visiting hours will be held Friday, May 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A graveside service will take place Saturday, May 4, at 11 a.m. at Orient Central Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made...

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  • Michael F. Rogers

    Michael F. Rogers, a lifelong Southold resident, died on April 25, 2013. He was 59 years old. Born in Riverhead on Dec., 8, 1953, to Frank B. Rogers Jr. and Helen A. Zimnoski, he was a graduate of Southold High School. On Nov. 21, 1998, he married the former Debbie Day and...

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