06.11.2018 Community Shortcake Eating Championship returns to the Strawberry Festival How much strawberry shortcake can you eat in eight minutes? There will be plenty of folks aiming to find out at the 64thannual Mattituck Lions Club Strawberry Festival this...
06.17.2016 Community Photos: Hulling Night at 2016 Strawberry Festival Hundreds of people gathered in Mattituck Thursday night for the well-loved tradition of strawberry hulling night.
06.12.2016 Community At 87, he’s the Strawberry Festival’s longest-serving volunteer Harry Jaquillard has eaten a lot of strawberry shortcake. It’s his favorite food to consume during the annual Strawberry Festival, a family-friendly carnival and everything-strawberry charity event hosted by...
06.14.2014 Community Southold teen crowned Strawberry Queen Southold teen Jasmine Clasing was crowned Strawberry Queen Saturday at the 60th annual Mattituck Lions Club’s Strawberry Festival. Clasing, 17, takes over the crown from Leah LaFreniere.
06.13.2014 Community Photos: Hulling night at the Strawberry Festival Hulling night, an annual tradition of the Mattituck Lions Club’s Strawberry Festival, is held the first night of the four-day fair. The hulled berries are made into strawberry shortcake,...
06.15.2013 Community Southold teen named Strawberry Queen Saturday morning Leah LaFreniere was just another 16-year-old girl from the North Fork. But come the afternoon, she had her coronation. Leah was crowned Mattituck Strawberry Queen at the Lions...
06.15.2013 Community Photos: Hulling Night at the Strawberry Festival There was no shortage of helping hands at the 59th annual Mattituck Lions Club Strawberry Festival hulling night on Thursday. Friends and neighbors from across the North Fork descended...
06.15.2013 Columns Column: You don’t see me going crazy over corn Did you know that strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside? Or that strawberries are a member of the rose family indigenous to every continent save...
06.04.2013 News Strawberry Queen finalists impress the judges Wearing a fancy dress and schmoozing some judges isn’t all it takes to win the coveted title of the Mattituck Strawberry Queen, for this is not your average beauty...
06.17.2012 News Photos: It’s the final day of the 58th annual Strawberry Festival It’s your final chance to head down to Strawberry Fields in Mattituck for the 58th annual Strawberry Festival today. Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Penny of Mattituck accepted the traditional crown, scepter...