03.19.2025 Community 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...
09.23.2024 Agriculture CSAs help keep area farmers in the green Bunches of broccoli, vibrant flowers, succulent berries and green cardboard boxes of freshly picked yellow squash are part of the homegrown produce that greets customers when they pull into...
08.29.2024 News Blue jean sphere grabs attention on Sound Ave. Drive along Sound Avenue in Riverhead and something unique may catch your eye. An outdoor sculpture in the form of a 12-foot-high sphere crafted from hundreds of pairs of...
08.17.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Mowing over the litter just makes more If you’re concerned about the state of our environment, you may be surprised to learn about an apparently new way to pollute our pristine North Fork. Drive along routes...
08.14.2024 News Agri-resort developers look to partner with Sound Avenue neighbors During a nearly two-hour, sometimes contentious meeting Friday evening, residents of the Willow Ponds on the Sound condominium complex grilled the developers of a proposed luxury agri-resort on Sound...