10.31.2016 Community With influx of homeless young adults, local shelters brace for winter Last winter, Maureen’s Haven, a Riverhead-based nonprofit that serves the homeless, experienced an unexpected flood of a new type of guest: young adults.
03.08.2015 Columns Guest Column: Perpetual homelessness just won’t work East End towns and villages are now under political and media pressure to participate in Suffolk County’s sex offender monitoring program. This program is operated, under contract with the...
03.04.2015 Columns Guest Column: Our homeless are more than statistics I’m sitting at my kitchen table. It’s Friday, Feb. 20. The temperature outside is in the teens, as it has been for the past several weeks. The sun is...
02.26.2015 Community Family’s final farewell in Greenport for troubled man A homeless man who died last week while sleeping in an unheated garage was remembered by relatives on Wednesday as a hardworking family man who had been battling a...
04.05.2014 Columns Guest Column: Please consider hiring a homeless person John’s Place and Maureen’s Haven are programs whose main objectives are to help the homeless. In the winter months, these nonprofits work with various churches across the East End...
