01.10.2025 News Area officials react to rash of drone sightings, press for federal support A rash of more than two dozen recent drone sightings — some “as big as cars” — over or near Francis Gabreski airport in Westhampton Beach prompted local officials...
01.10.2025 News Greenporter parking lot debate pits housing vs. parking “Where is Joni Mitchell when we need her?” Greenport resident Diana Gordon asked the Village Board at a meeting last week, citing Ms. Mitchell’s hit ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ in...
01.03.2025 People of the Year 2024 Public Servant of the Year: Stacey Norklun Tucked away at a corner desk in a modest back office in Southold Town Hall, one of the town’s most cherished employees toils in obscurity on projects that literally...
12.23.2024 News Village officials approve Stirling Harbor dredging project The Greenport Village Board voted last week to cover nearly one third of the cost of dredging the mouth of Stirling Harbor before year’s end, following pleas from commercial marina and...
12.17.2024 News Greenport marina owners seek urgent dredging project Greenport’s Stirling Harbor business community is petitioning the village to conduct a maintenance dredge at the mouth of the harbor, which the marina operators say has grown dangerously narrow...
12.05.2024 News After eminent domain win, what’s next for Mattituck park project? Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively upheld Southold Town’s 2020 eminent domain seizure of 1.75 acres of privately owned land in Mattituck by declining to review a...
11.27.2024 News Fatal Mattituck fire raises questions about rental safety Edy Herrera, the young man who died last week in a tragic house fire in Mattituck, was remembered by his friends at a memorial service on Monday as a...
11.26.2024 News Deer strikes spike as days get shorter It’s that time of year again — high season for deer-car collisions. This fall, Southold Highway Dept. workers are picking up an average of one dead deer a day,...
11.25.2024 News Memorial Monday: North Fork mourns the loss of Alvah ‘Skip’ Goldsmith Of the many lessons Goldsmith’s Boat Shop owner Alvah “Skip” Goldsmith Jr. taught his sons Craig and Glenn throughout their lives, one of them really stuck. “He’d say, ‘Your...
11.20.2024 Featured Story Update: House fire in Mattituck: one dead, three escaped; investigators on scene Edy Herrera — a dishwasher at C.J.’s American Grill in Mattituck who would have turned 27 today — lost his life in Tuesday morning’s devastating house fire in Mattituck,...