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Education
HS students honored with journalism awards
June 14, 2013
Business
7-Eleven stores reopen and customers return
June 18, 2013
Community
Town to open first ADA compliant playground
June 19, 2013
Southold teen named Strawberry Queen
June 15, 2013
Photos: Hulling Night at the Strawberry Festival
June 15, 2013
Obituaries
Harriet Hull Aherne
June 18, 2013
Kathleen M. Oates
June 18, 2013
Prince memorial set
June 18, 2013
Local History
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National Register recognizes downtown Riverhead historic district
Back in March, a section of downtown Riverhead was approved for New York State’s Register of Historic Places. Now, that same area has been approved for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, opening the door for huge tax benefits for those looking to renovate and improve old buildings. The inclusion...
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Southold Historical Society seeks help to restore Main Road building
The Southold Historical Society recently purchased the historic Beckwith-Hartranft-Gillispie building on Route 25 in the center of Southold, and is now raising funds to restore the space and use it to exhibit historical society’s acquisitions. The building, which most recently served as a real estate office, dates back to the mid-1800s,...
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National historic preservation group organizing tour of North Fork
Most North Forkers know all about the area’s colonial past and many are only too happy to share that knowledge. And in a few months, a few local historians will get to brag about the region’s rich past with a national historical group. The North Fork has been selected as the...
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Mattituck-Laurel Historical Society seeks paid director
Mattituck-Laurel Historical Society is looking to fill its director position, and for the first time it will be a paid job. The board of directors decided last month to add a $100 per week salary for a part-time employee to work about five hours a week, helping the organization boost membership...
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Historical Society acquires portrait of early summer residents
A giant double portrait of two of the earliest summer residents of Orient is now hanging in the Southold Historical Society office in the historic Prince Building, according to a press release from the society. The 1841 portrait of William Wilson Stephenson and Marcus Pendleton Stephenson, sons of prominent New York...
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Riverhead’s Wells family still farming 350 years later
On Nov. 20, 1661, William Wells was allotted three pieces of property for his family to farm near Phillips Lane on Sound Avenue in Aquebogue. Eleven generations later, the Wells family is still at it. This Sunday, the Wells' will celebrate 350 years of farming the same land, and if a 1937...
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Artifacts found at Cutchogue Village Green site unveiled
A piece of a salt glazed stoneware dating back to the 1890s was featured on Sunday afternoon along with other archaeological artifacts found during an excavation done earlier this year at the Village Green in Cutchogue. Jo-Ann McLean, a registered archaeologist from Flanders who was hired to monitor the excavation when...
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Construction now under way at Suffolk County Historic Society
The Suffolk County Historic Society building in Riverhead is getting a bit of a a facelift, as a $65,000 construction project to rebuild its stairway and main entrance is underway. The building, which itself is historic, was built in the 1930s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
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Winners announced in ‘Favorite Places’ photo contest
Four winners were announced this weekend in the Suffolk County Historical Society's "Favorite Places, Suffolk County" juried photo contest and exhibit. The exhibit, which is on display at the Historical Society's building on West Main Street in Riverhead, features new and old photos of favorite places within the county. Of the four...
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Historical Society presents ‘Favorite Places, Suffolk County’
The Suffolk County Historical Society will present an opening reception for the new exhibit "Favorite Places, Suffolk County," from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. A juried photography competition and exhibition of new and historic images, "Favorite Places, Suffolk County" features contemporary photographic work juxtaposed with selected images from the Society's Fullerton...
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Photos: Check out the Peconic Lane Community Center
A grand opening tour of Southold Town's new Peconic Lane Community Center was held Monday night in Peconic. Supervisor Scott Russell welcomed several dozen members of the community, thanking them for making the beautiful transformation of the old Peconic School building "beautiful and cheap." A display of historic Peconic photographs and informational...
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Suffolk County Historical Society director steps down
More than three decades ago, Wally Broege, who hails from upstate New York and studied marine science in college, never imagined himself heading the Suffolk County Historical Society. Or any historical society, for that matter. But in the mid-1970s he took a part-time job with the Riverhead-based organization and in 1979...
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Greenport woman uncovers great-great grandfather’s Civil War memories
Southold residents have always taken special pride in local history, and this summer a special exhibit at the Stirling Historical Society in Greenport will highlight the role residents played in the Civil War. As Gail Horton and a band of like-minded history buffs — Karen Anderson, John Montgomery, Clarebeth Cunningham, Antonia...
