01.16.2025 Education Most area schools opt out of state regionalization plan The deadline for schools to either opt in or out of the proposed statewide regionalization plan process was Wednesday and all districts but one in the North Fork region...
01.10.2025 Health Norovirus and influenza cases on the rise throughout New York As folks gather indoors this winter — whether it be for holidays, football playoffs or perhaps to shelter from the cold — the unwelcome party guests influenza and norovirus...
01.02.2025 People of the Year 2024 Educator of the Year: Gary Buckner Gary Buckner’s classroom can be anything: a theater for debate, a television newsroom or the place where watermelons meet their demise in a guillotine. For the students who are...
01.02.2025 People of the Year 2024 Person of the Year: Donna Lane Five days a week, Southold police dispatcher Donna Lane answers a variety of 911 calls — from house alarm system alerts to car wrecks and everything in between —...
12.23.2024 News $150K bond approved for Fishers Island barracks A $150,000 bond resolution for preliminary renovation of the police barracks on Fishers Island was passed unanimously by the Southold Town Board during its regular meeting on Dec. 17....
12.19.2024 Environment Oyster shell collection program benefits land and sea Seafood connoisseurs consume oysters throughout most of the year across Long Island — often haphazardly discarding the empty shells slurp after slurp. But local advocates say those shells could...
12.17.2024 News Southold officials request public comment on lowering County Road 48 speed limits The Southold Town Board is taking steps to lower speed limits on County Road 48 in Southold. During its work session earlier this month, the board discussed a memo...
12.12.2024 News Southold Town Board officially bans loitering The Southold Town Board unanimously approved adding “loitering” to an existing town law banning peddlers, solicitors and transient retail merchants from local streets at its Dec. 3 regular meeting. ...
12.11.2024 News East End community urged to use caution today when traveling Long Island community members are urged to allow for extra time when traveling today as 25- to 35-mile per hour winds blow south, and gusts up to 60 mph...
12.10.2024 Education Cutchogue East Elementary students raise funds for Florida hurricane victims When fourth graders in Sophia Avella’s class at Cutchogue East Elementary School read through their books last month, each page turned helped raise money for students in Florida displaced...
