Deborah Wetzel, Author at The Suffolk Times

05.06.2025 Community

Riverhead Rotary Garden Festival digs in at Tanger

A kaleidoscope of spring colors — periwinkle foxglove, purple velvety pansies, vibrant yellow begonias, and white- and salmon-hued impatiens, among others — greeted plant lovers at the 29th annual East End...

A big white tent in a parking lot surrounded by flowers of all colors.

04.30.2025 News

Charnews Farm to open stand in early May

The Peconic Land Trust plans to open a new farm stand at Charnews Farm on Youngs Avenue in Southold this spring. Not just any farm stand, it’s the first...

Two women, a man and then another woman stand smiling under the awning of a new red farm stand building.

04.08.2025 News

Mattituck alum pilots Navy F-18 coast to coast

Barbara Sheryll of Mattituck watched as her son landed an F-18 at MacArthur Airport in Islip March 7. “It was one of the most awesome experiences of my life!”...

03.31.2025 News

Community center construction to move forward following property study

Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck is likely to begin construction of a community center on one acre of its five-acre property later this year now...

03.19.2025 News

Local group seeks food and transporters, to the rescue!

In just one year, from 2023 to 2024, volunteers with North Fork Food Rescue USrescued over 40,000 pounds of excess food from North Fork farms and bagel shops. That food...

01.07.2025 News

Local officials debate new codes to save trees

After seeing the number of trees on the North Fork diminish, Riverhead and Southold towns are taking steps to get control over the fate of residential parcels where trees...

01.06.2025 Environment

Gov. Hochul vetoes horseshoe crab protection bill

Walk along the shoreline on any North Fork beach and occasionally there appears a rare and odd sight — a horseshoe crab — that scarce dinosaur-era crustacean that either...

12.18.2024 Environment

Southold opens scrap food-to-compost drop site

Southold became the second municipality on Long Island to launch a food-scraps-to-compost program. On Friday, Dec. 13, Southold town officials and several environmental partners held a ribbon cutting ceremony...

11.21.2024 Agriculture

Farms for the Future helps Army veteran give back

From the war-torn deserts of Afghanistan to a tranquil field at Charnews Farm in Southold, Tim Curry is the first U.S. Army veteran to participate in the Peconic Land...

11.20.2024 Community

First Baptist Church of Cutchogue celebrates centennial

On Sunday, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Cutchogue on Sound Avenue, men in stylish suit jackets and women in their sophisticated Sunday best...

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