04.21.2025 News Floyd Memorial Library budget finalized ahead of May vote Floyd Memorial Library, which services Greenport, East Marion and Orient, finalized its proposed 2025–26 budget April 7. A vote on the budget proposal will be held Tuesday, May 20,...
12.02.2024 News Local FDs answered call to fight upstate fires Over the last several weeks, brush fires broke out all over New York State, with the worst concentrated in southern New York and Long Island. Suffolk County volunteers assisted...
08.13.2024 Community Photos: East Marion Fire Department turns 125 The East Marion Fire Department drew revelers from all over the North Fork on last weekend to celebrate its 125th year of service. There was a parade led by...
05.28.2024 Community Oysterponds Historical Society unveils 2024 Village House exhibitions Oysterponds Historical Society’s mission to collect, preserve and share the history of Orient and East Marion is crystal clear to executive director Alison Ventura. “I think people think of...
06.23.2023 Community ‘Good Samaritan’ honored with Liberty Medal after helping carjacking victim A heroic North Fork man who leapt into action to help a panicked carjacking victim in Greenport earlier this year was honored last Thursday with the New York State...
06.02.2023 News After founder’s death, an iconic business carries on George Giannaris began working at the Hellenic Snack Bar when he was 10 years old. Before he was in his mid-teens, he was cutting up pork for the restaurant’s...
05.04.2023 News After tragic crash in East Marion, state DOT will lower speed limit on causeway Bob Hulsmann knew something was truly off with the speed limits on the causeway in East Marion even before a horrific head-on collision and car fire on Feb. 17...
07.23.2022 News Developers tell East Marion residents they hope to move ahead with 80-condo proposal, may seek new change of zone Developers plan to forge ahead with an 80-unit condominium at the site of an abandoned oyster factory at the end of Shipyard Lane in East Marion, despite new zoning...
07.21.2022 Government Split Southold Town Board approves zone change for East Marion property where condos, marina were recently proposed The Southold Town Board approved a zone change for the site of a former oyster factory at the end of Shipyard Lane in East Marion. Town Board members Sarah...
07.15.2022 News Alison Ventura takes helm at Oysterponds Historical Society Oysterponds Historical Society announced a new executive director. Alison Ventura succeeds interim director John Holzapfel, who took the position after former executive director Paul Gunther passed away early last...