05.22.2025 News Memorial Day 2025: Services, parades and events Monday, May 26, marks Memorial Day for the year of 2025. Below are some of the biggest events and ceremonies honoring our fallen service members across the North Fork....
05.21.2025 News Voters approve North Fork 2025–26 school district budgets Southold, Mattituck-Cutchogue, Greenport and Oysterponds 2025–26 school district budgets all passed Tuesday night following community votes that saw 1,523 residents cast their ballots across the North Fork. Here’s how...
05.14.2025 Education Oysterponds 2025–26 budget vote breakdown The proposed 2025–26 budget for Oysterponds Union Free School District is $5,841,258, a $205,760 increase from the 2024–25 budget. The proposed tax levy is $5,054,743 — a $170,938 or...
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,...
04.18.2025 News Tuthill family’s Orient subdivision plans met with mixed reactions A 112-acre, 80/60 conservation subdivision of land in Orient owned by the Tuthill family encountered mixed reactions from community members, both in favor and opposed, at an April 7...
01.16.2025 News Most area schools opt out of state regionalization plan The deadline for schools to either opt in or out of the proposed statewide regionalization plan process was Wednesday and all districts but one in the North Fork region...
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...
05.06.2024 Community Poquatuck Hall celebrates 150 years as Orient’s ‘living room’ and arts center On a Saturday night last month, North Forkers crammed into Poquatuck Hall for its famed annual community sing-along: the Anne MacKay Song Swap. For a couple hours, the sounds...
04.17.2024 The Arts World-renowned sculptor Richard Serra found inspiration, tranquility in Orient Sometime after the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, Richard Serra and his wife, Clara Weyergraf, fled New York City and moved to a house in Orient, at the far...
03.26.2024 Community Photos: 2024 Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park “Pure joy” is how organizer Suzanne Horton described the scene of the annual Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park on Sunday, March 24. Roughly 10,000 eggs were...