To the Editor:
Re: Steve Wick’s column, “He supported slavery and now Greenport has a marker with his name on it,” April 20, 2018:
The purpose of the Press Club of Long Island’s Historical Marker Program is to preserve the history of journalism in our region, and, we hope, draw attention to and spark interest in it so we can learn from it.
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Last week, the Long Island Press Club erected a historic marker in Greenport that, by its presence, honors a man named Henry Reeves, who was the editor and publisher of the Republican Watchman newspaper in the mid-19th century and a Southold Town supervisor.
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A marker honoring an iconic, rebellious North Fork newspaper editor now stands tall in Greenport Village.
(more…)Three Suffolk Times staffers will discuss their reporting on the 1966 disappearance of Cutchogue’s Louise Pietrewicz at a free event being hosted in Riverhead Thursday evening. READ
The Suffolk Times has been named Best Community Weekly Newspaper by the Press Club of Long Island, the newspaper learned this week. (more…)
Riverhead and Southold towns both received scores of A+ score in a Press Club of Long Island audit that evaluated local governments’ compliance with open records laws.