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05.20.2025 Government

State budget gives local families a boost with tax breaks, rebates

The 2025-26 New York State budget passed earlier this month. It includes a plan to ensure that New York’s approximately 2.7 million students can receive breakfast and lunch for...

05.08.2025 News

Erica Steindl named the new executive director of CAST

The Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation (CAST) has picked longtime member Erica Steindl to lead the organization as its new executive director. Ms. Steindl, who has been a...

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05.04.2025 Editorials

Guest Spot: Joyce Beckenstein

Storm clouds over CAST When a summer storm rolls in, North Forkers know what to do: secure the shutters, stock up on essentials, charge the phones. The storm comes....

04.03.2025 Community

Oysterponds students score big in cereal box domino challenge

Oysterponds Elementary school recently held their third annual cereal box domino challenge, collecting 441 boxes of cereal to donate to CAST. Students brought in boxes of cereal for the...

01.27.2025 News

North Forkers take the ‘Plunge’ at Mattituck beach

The third annual North Fork Polar Bears Polar Plunge filled Veterans Beach in Mattituck Sunday for the coldest plunge on record. With a 28-degree surface temperature and air temps...

11.27.2024 Community

Photos: CAST’s 5th Annual Festival of Trees lights up Treiber Farms in Peconic

CAST’s biggest annual tradition, the Festival of Trees, celebrated its fifth anniversary last Saturday and Sunday. The fundraiser at Treiber Farms in Peconic, which showcased beautifully decorated trees and...

10.17.2024 Community

CAST leader honored for transforming North Fork non-profit

After seven years at the helm of the Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation, executive director Cathy Demeroto was honored last week by the Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force...

09.19.2024 News

Cathy Demeroto to step down as CAST’s executive director

Cathy Demeroto, who joined the Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation as its executive director in 2017, announced Monday she will resign from the position at the end of...

09.10.2024 News

Remember those lost on 9/11 at these North Fork events and commemorations

In somber recognition of the events 23 years ago on September 11, 2001, towns across the North Fork will gather in tribute. Multiple ceremonies and events are taking place...

09.06.2024 Community

First responder stars in free performance of ‘The Guys’ at CAST

Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, New York City firefighter Kevin Shea was off-duty and had just completed a 24-hour shift with Ladder 35 on Manhattan’s Upper...

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