11.12.2024 News James Sleckman of Southold publishes first novel Southold resident James Sleckman spent 35 years selling gold leaf to book binding companies. He put his energy into making certain kinds of books more beautiful, but he was...
03.21.2023 Business How indie booksellers are staging a comeback on the East End It’s hard to beat the sights and sounds and scents of browsing a local bookstore. A delicate bell chimes to welcome shoppers to a new world. A scent reminiscent...
03.14.2020 Business Greenport businesses brace for fewer customers, economic hardship as COVID-19 cases rise “Social distancing” to help curb the spread of the coronavirus may have a dramatic economic impact on North Fork business owners. Whether forced to close due to employees who...
05.24.2019 Community Author Chris Pavone discusses latest novel, ‘The Paris Diversion’ Author Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn and spent many weekends and holidays in Cutchogue, where his grandparents had lived since 1968. In his early 20s, he took a...
11.13.2017 Business Work We Do: Scott Raulsome, Burton’s Bookstore I’m Scott Raulsome. I’m the owner of Burton’s Bookstore in Greenport.
11.23.2014 Business Meet the new owner of Burton’s Bookstore in Greenport In the day and age where it seems bookstores are going the way of flip phones and 8-track tapes, quitting your job to operate one of your own could...
03.18.2014 Business Burton’s Bookstore owner selling shop, hopes to pass the torch It might take a village to save one of Greenport’s bookstores. George Maaiki of Orient, who has owned Burton’s Bookstore since 1988, wants to sell the business. And while...