Five reasons to pick up a copy of The Suffolk Times today

Five stories you’ll find in Thursday’s issue of The Suffolk Times:

1. North Fork residents want to know from Congressman Tim Bishop why federal funding that would have paid for the dredging of Mattituck Inlet was cut, but dredging in Montauk was funded.

2. Southold Town recently received three requests to open farmers markets, and since there’s no mention of farmers markets in the town code, board members are scratching their heads and wondering whether they should encourage them.

3. Times/Review corporate officer and columnist Troy Gustavson thinks our state Assembly district should be redrawn to include the North and South forks and exclude voting precincts in Riverhead and Brookhaven towns, but the current editorial leadership of Times/Review Newsgroup disagrees.

4. The Greenport Village Board this week turned down the North Fork Chamber of Commerce’s request to use a portion of Mitchell Park for its third annual art show on July 21.

5. Southold Schools superintendent David Gamberg writes that while he believes education stands to improve in order to meet the demands of a highly competitive society, there are unforeseen consequences in New York’s new performance review system.