05.29.2023 Community Columns Guest Column: A war, a wound and two wonders This is the story of my husband, his war wound and two of the most amazing coincidences ever. In the spring of 1944, right out of high school in...
09.12.2021 Community Orient woman’s memoir tells tale of husband’s journey as World War II pilot When Nancy Hungerford set out to tell the story of her late husband, Robert’s, journey as a World War II pilot, she not only wanted to create a tribute...
06.06.2019 Columns Wick Column: June 6, 1944 was an extraordinary day June 6, 1944, D-Day, is a day that fundamentally changed history and pointed America, and all of Europe, in an entirely new direction. World War II had gone on...
01.14.2019 Obituaries Harold Schwerdt, Purple Heart recipient and former POW, laid to rest Longtime Southold resident Harold Schwerdt, a two-time Purple Heart recipient during World War II, was laid to rest Monday at Calverton National Cemetery.
12.09.2017 Community New Suffolk veteran awarded his high school diploma at age 91 George Kunz of New Suffolk celebrated his 18th birthday in 1944 aboard on a troop train bound for the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. Last month, more than...
03.20.2014 Columns Column: A vet’s battle for his life and his legacy Southold resident Bob Mallgraf owes his life to a long breakfast line. It had been a long night manning the radar aboard the USS Franklin in World War II...
07.28.2013 News How a biologist found WWII-era explosives unearthed by Sandy Gardiners Point Island looked different to coastal biologist Curt Kessler as he walked around the remains of Fort Tyler, a relic of the Spanish-American War. As Mr. Kessler, a...
01.14.2013 News Cutchogue man recalls sailing aboard the Enterprise Bill Midgley of Cutchogue, who’s now 86, was barely old enough to serve his country in 1944 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the height of World...