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06.26.2020 News

Greenport BID looks for long-range plans for the village

After a trial run of installing ‘parklets’ and closing roads in Greenport to help businesses bounce back from the COVID-19 shutdown, the Business Improvement District has shifted its attention...

06.10.2020 Business

As Phase 2 begins, eager customers return to Love Lane businesses

Across the North Fork, downtown areas are slowly coming back to life as the region enters Phase Two of the state’s reopening plan. On Mattituck’s Love Lane, businesses that...

04.26.2020 Business

Governor says businesses must think about how they can safely reopen; two-phase plan to begin with construction, manufacturing

Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined a general two-phase outline for when nonessential businesses can resume, a plan that would vary by region in terms of timeline and would appear to...

04.16.2020 Business

Local restaurants, with much smaller staffs, adapt to find ways to stay afloat

Jerry Dicecco never imagined a time where his downtown Riverhead restaurant would be selling cartons of eggs, toilet paper and wholesale produce to stay afloat. But during the coronavirus...

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...

02.25.2020 Business

Lawsuits target local businesses with websites deemed inaccessible to the visually impaired

A series of “cut and paste” lawsuits has reached the North Fork, affecting dozens of local businesses and prompting the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce to issue an “urgent alert”...

01.16.2020 Health

Longtime Mattituck dentist, Dr. Phil, set to retire after 42-year career

Since the age of 5, his vision for a career has not wavered. Now, 42 years in, Philip Centonze of Baiting Hollow is retiring, happy to have lived his...

01.07.2020 Business

2019 Businessperson of the Year: Marc LaMaina

It feels like a lifetime ago that Greenport Village had a small cupcake shop down near the end of Main Street. Butta Cakes was the first small business venture...

12.04.2019 Government

Decision looms on proposed 44-room hotel, restaurant in Southold

The Southold Zoning Board of Appeals is moving closer toward a decision on a special exception permit for a proposed 44-room hotel and 74-seat restaurant on Main Road in...

11.29.2019 Business

Local restaurants shift gears after scallop die-off

This season’s scallop die-off — and the resulting dismal harvest — has restaurateurs, baymen and ecologists deeply worried.