Public service runs deep in Brian Mealy’s blood.
The born-and-bred Mattituck resident serves on the Mattituck-Cutchogue Board of Education, the Eastern Suffolk BOCES board and Peconic Green Growth, mentors young people and tutors ESL through Literacy Suffolk.
That’s all on top of working as a clerk at Floyd Memorial Library and Peconic Landing in Greenport. READ
Over the years, Anne Smith has worked to teach the importance of acceptance and diversity in the local school community.
As superintendent of the Mattituck-Cutchogue School District, she included diversity as a key part of the district’s mission and worked with the Board of Education’s diversity committee.
To say Chris North maintains a busy schedule would be an understatement.
The 22-year-old Greenport resident is a member of Southold’s Anti-Bias Task Force and recently joined the town’s Democratic committee. He also attends Suffolk County Community College, where he was elected in June to serve as student trustee, a position held by just one person in the county each year.
During a year in which much has been said nationally about the need to bring people of all backgrounds together, a group in Southold Town is making a difference locally.
Greenport Village businesses will soon be able to make it clear they are part of a campaign to promote respect and civility in the community.
Picture people from different ethnic and racial backgrounds piling into a room for a two-hour discussion focused on concern for the North Fork’s Hispanic population. Now imagine some of those people holding different political affiliations, but keeping the conversation civil and respectful. READ
Minutes before a meeting between Greenport residents and police officials was set to begin Monday evening, only a small group waited inside a classroom at St. Agnes School.
They were soon joined by dozens of neighbors, filling the room and making it necessary to move to a larger space in the building.
Residents of Greenport piled into St. Agnes School Monday evening for a meeting with police and other government leaders organized by the Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force. READ
Sunday’s “Respect and Civility” candlelight vigil featured unity, compassion and love.
The Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force hosted the event at Silversmith’s Corner to bring residents together and work toward becoming a bias-free community.
The Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force is holding a candlelight vigil next month in an effort to become a “bias-free community.”