When tens of thousands of visitors came from across Long Island and beyond to experience six Tall Ships docked in Greenport’s harbor this past July 4 weekend, the village was transformed into far from just any ordinary place.
Tag: Top stories 2015
The historic First Universalist Church of Southold was reduced to ruins March 14 by a fast-moving blaze that drew about 150 firefighters to the Main Road property as other neighbors and passersby watched the spectacle from the road.
Four young women were killed and six people were injured this summer when a pickup truck collided with a limousine on Route 48 in Cutchogue.
Eastern Long Island Hospital’s board of directors voted unanimously July 9 to begin the process of affiliating with Stony Brook University Hospital, merging the small, rural Greenport facility with an organization that boasts a $1.1 billion annual budget and hosts Suffolk County’s only level-one trauma center and academic medical center.
A proposal for a mixed-use development featuring retail space and affordable apartments in Mattituck came and went this year. But weeks after that proposal was abandoned, a team of investors — including local developer Paul Pawlowski, the lead on the apartments project — have pitched a new idea for Main Road: a state-of-the-art private sports club. READ
After record-setting snowfall during the 2013-14 winter season, the North Fork was hoping for a reprieve.
Instead, winter got worse.
With only a couple of summer weekends left, the Southold Town Board passed a law on Aug. 25 that set a 14-night minimum for rentals of privately owned homes.