Joe Werkmeister, Author at The Suffolk Times

01.28.2020 Police

Cops: Fictitious report leads police scrambling to find woman they believed may harm herself

Southold Town police officers, with assistance from Suffolk County Police Aviation, flooded the Orient Point area Tuesday morning searching for a vehicle that contained a woman possibly trying to...

01.24.2020 Columns

Column: Backlash over New York’s bail reform fueled by fear

With family members by his side, Thomas Murphy walked out of a Central Islip courtroom Tuesday, free to return home ahead of his March 17 sentencing. Since his initial...

01.20.2020 Obituaries

Crash victim remembered as talented soccer player who ‘had so much to offer’

To many of the English as a New Language students at Mattituck High School, Melvin Dominguez Torres was a good friend. A native of El Salvador, Melvin followed two...

01.16.2020 Columns

Column: He mastered the craft of sports photography

For more than two decades, Garret Meade has been a fixture on the sidelines of high school sporting events on the North Fork, capturing remarkable action shots of athletes...

01.10.2020 News

George Sullivan, decorated Marine and longtime tax receiver, dies at 75

George Robert Sullivan, who was awarded the Navy Cross — the country’s second-highest military decoration — as a Marine during the Vietnam War when his left leg was amputated...

01.06.2020 Government

2019 Public Servant of the Year: Kevin Webster

Seated in the bleachers at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton, as the Greenport boys basketball team tipped off its biggest game of the season, Kevin Webster...

12.28.2019 News

Wrestling: Tuckers crown two champs in season’s second tournament

As the competition ratchets up, the areas of focus become clearer for the Mattituck/Greenport/Southold wrestling team.

12.12.2019 Community

CAST on Wheels set to take off as CAST unveils new mobile food pantry

When Community Action Southold Town completed a recent survey of its clients, a key takeaway was transportation. Many of the residents in Southold Town that CAST supports, such as...

12.06.2019 Agriculture

Cuomo requests federal support following scallop die-off in local bays

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is requesting federal support to address the recent scallop die-off, which killed an estimated 90 to 100% of adult scallops between last spring and fall in...

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