04.27.2020 Community Mattituck woman competes on NBC’s ‘Songland’ Ever since seeing ‘Selena’ as a child, Raquel Castro has dreamed of being in the spotlight. “My parents used to write songs together when I was a little girl,”...
02.24.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Mac’s farewell comes with tears When it ended, Mackenzie Hoeg looked down, raised her hands to her face, wiped away some tears and waited on the handshake line. Her laudable high school basketball career...
02.21.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Tuckers fall when their shots don’t There’s just something about Port Jefferson. Maybe it’s the Royals’ sharp shooting skill. Or their tenacious defense. Or their strength in grabbing rebounds off the boards. Then again, it...
02.18.2020 Sports Girls Basketball Notebook: Mattituck’s defense gets job done The way basketball coaches see it, there’s no defense for not playing defense. A player’s shooting touch can come and go, they reason, but defense is about effort. There...
02.14.2020 Slideshows See more photos from Mattituck’s victory over Greenport/Southold The Mattituck girls basketball team defeated Greenport/Southold, 49-36, in Thursday’s Class B semifinal at Mattituck High School. Read more coverage here.
02.12.2020 Sports Boys Basketball Notebook: ‘X’ made his mark with Tuckers Undoubtedly, this was not the way the X-Man wanted things to end. Possibly the greatest career in Mattituck High School boys basketball history wrapped up Monday night in Southampton’s...
02.12.2020 Sports Wrestling: This Mattituck girl is a champion The Mattituck/Greenport/Southold high school wrestling program has had female wrestlers before, just not one quite like Ansley Hanus. What Hanus, a freshman, did Sunday was become the first female...
02.11.2020 Sports Boys Basketball: Southampton stops Allen, Tuckers in Class B playoffs The irony was inescapable. Mattituck’s Xavier Allen, the top basketball scorer on Long Island this season, was having trouble scoring. It was an unusual sight. At halftime, Allen had...
02.03.2020 Sports Girls Basketball: Mattituck’s Woods steals the show Abby Woods just about matched her season points-per-game average of 7.8 in Mattituck’s 49-33 girls basketball win over Hampton Bays on Monday night. She scored eight points, but there...
01.28.2020 Sports Boys Basketball: Nicholson returns, Tuckers clinch playoff spot Looking for a healthy shot in the arm, the Mattituck Tuckers turned to a player who had not been feeling well at all lately. Four days after exiting a...
