11.01.2024 Community Local bridge renamed for fallen NYPD detective Hundreds of law enforcement officers and elected officials gathered on the Long Island Expressway between Exits 70 and 71 Tuesday to rename the Halsey Manor Road overpass the NYPD...
10.31.2024 News Southold families’ loyalist ties during American Revolution endure During the early days of the American Revolution, Long Island was one of the most loyalist areas in the colonies — voicing ardent support for George III, king of...
10.31.2024 Community Polar bears dive into eelgrass restoration project The Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine program held a coastal resiliency workshop recently to teach community members how to restore local waters by creating and planting eelgrass meadows in the...
10.28.2024 News Southold Town wins eminent domain battle over Mattituck land seizure The owners of a hardware store chain who sued the Town of Southold in 2020 for seizing their land in Mattituck under eminent domain exhausted their legal options this...
10.21.2024 News Determined police dispatcher averts house fire tragedy A quick-thinking, off-duty Southold police dispatcher helped save the lives of a Mattituck family of five after their house went up in flames early last Friday morning, according to...
10.18.2024 Environment North Fork Polar Bears dive into new eelgrass restoration project The North Fork Polar Bears are kicking off their winter season this weekend by launching their first ever coastal resiliency project at Truman’s Beach in Orient. The Polar Bears...
10.17.2024 Community CAST leader honored for transforming North Fork non-profit After seven years at the helm of the Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation, executive director Cathy Demeroto was honored last week by the Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force...
10.10.2024 News Owners of Greenport’s 19th century ‘shucker shacks’ seek historic designation Residents of Greenport’s historic Sandy Beach waterfront community, on the western edge of Youngs Point, want the Village Board to designate the former scallop shucking enclave as a historic district....
10.09.2024 News Remembering a ‘local’ music legend Hugh Prestwood Hugh Loring Prestwood, a legendary Nashville songwriter who for decades lived in Greenport and played local clubs, bars and vineyards, died last month in Nebraska at the age of...
10.04.2024 Community Hold your horses: Greenport carousel shut down indefinitely Greenport’s century-old carousel — which was originally designed as a traveling attraction to be assembled and taken down regularly — will be dismantled for the first time in decades,...