05.04.2015 Health After an inauspicious start, PBMC’s Garden Festival turns 20 When Joe Van de Wetering told Central Suffolk’s board of trustees he could earn the hospital $100,000 through an on-campus plant sale, they didn’t believe him. They rejected the idea,...
04.25.2015 Government North Fork Smoked Fish earns ZBA approval, also gets ticketed North Fork Smoked Fish Co., which opened in Greenport Village last year without proper approvals and has since been embroiled in controversy, cleared one of two critical hurdles this...
04.24.2015 Agriculture Southold looks to help agriculture industry in trend toward processing Doug Cooper has no interest in bottling salsa at Cooper Farms, his Mattituck business. “At my age, I’m not going to get into something like that,” he said. But...
04.18.2015 Columns Column: So here’s a column for the boy, too Kids, by nature, are scorekeepers. Meaning they’re constantly comparing what they have — or more specifically, what they don’t have — with other kids, and keeping track. I know...
04.17.2015 Police Southold police ticket 24 for distracted driving Southold police issued 24 summonses for distracted driving during a six-day campaign that kicked off April 10 and wrapped up Wednesday. The campaign came as part of a nationwide observance...
04.13.2015 Business First & South restaurant hires new chef in Greenport Veteran chef Scott Leventhal has taken over the kitchen at First & South in Greenport. He replaces Taylor Knapp, who has left to focus on his snail farm Peconic Escargot and his...
04.13.2015 Government Oyster stands could be coming soon to Southold As of now in Southold Town, those who raise shellfish on underwater properties could set up a stand to sell their clams or oysters — they would just have...
03.12.2015 News Ice ravages docks that line Southold Town bays, creeks “It looks like a war zone.” That’s how town Board of Trustees president John Bredemeyer described the damaged docks that now line Southold’s creeks and bays. The historically cold...
03.10.2015 Education Riverhead BOCES program launched to help districts, immigrant teens Monday marked the first day in a new Riverhead school for a small group of teens living in a country still very new to them. At the Eastern Suffolk...
03.07.2015 Columns Column: It’s about time we clean up our act Compared to people living in western Long Island, those on the East End are in a better position to recognize the connection between the environment and the economy. The...