01.01.2012 News 2011 Top Story No. 1: Irene spares the North Fork her worst National Weather Service alerts read that Hurricane Irene, then a powerful Category 3 storm, had “Long Island in its crosshairs.” Residents along Long Island’s coastlines and in NYC were...
12.31.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 2: Earthquake rattles the North fork Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley was at his desk on an otherwise uneventful Tuesday in August when he felt a tremor. So too was Supervisor Scott Russell. “My desk...
12.30.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 3: A winter season some would like to forget It’s easy to chose to block out the months that the North Fork was mired in snow several feet deep last winter, but like it or not, the harsh...
12.29.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 4: Mother, daughter killed in Southold fire A mother and daughter were killed on Aug. 23 in their Southold home during an early-morning blaze. Kathryn Primich, 86, and Barbara Primich, 56, died as their waterfront house...
12.27.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 6: Art theft case solved, mostly In the unusual theft of close to $600,000 of artwork from East End homes last winter, police identified a suspect, who admitted to the thefts and pleaded guilty to...
12.26.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 7: GOP domination continues Several aspects of this year’s town elections broke with tradition, but the results were quite familiar. In rebuilding mode after suffering historic losses in the 2007 elections, the last...
12.25.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 8: The osprey sculpture flies away Was relocating Roberto Julio Bessin’s osprey sculpture “Morning Call” from Greenport’s waterfront to Jean Cochran Park in Peconic a good thing? The answers seems largely geography-based. Many Southolders are...
12.24.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 9: Local doctor charged in Medicare scheme Update: All charges against Dr. Jesse Stoff have been dismissed, according to records a representative of Dr. Stoff shared with the News-Review. The charges were dismissed pursuant to rule...
12.23.2011 News 2011 Top Story No. 10: Not a good year to be a grower It would be difficult for any year to top the pristine growing season of 2010, but even without such a stellar season for comparison, many farmers found 2011 to...
