Top Stories 2016 Archives - The Suffolk Times

01.01.2017 Police

Top Stories 2016: Charges dismissed against limo driver

This year, charges of criminally negligent homicide were brought, and later dismissed, against the limousine driver involved in the 2015 Cutchogue crash that killed four young women and injured...

12.31.2016 Government

Top Stories 2016: New helicopter routes recommended

After years of complaints from residents who say overhead helicopters make too much noise and disrupt their days, the Eastern Region Helicopter Council introduced new route recommendations this spring.

12.30.2016 Health

Top Stories 2016: PBMC trauma center, expansion news

In April, Peconic Bay Medical Center announced one of its most ambitious projects ever: plans to build a three-story critical care tower, double the size of its emergency room...

12.29.2016 Government

Top Stories 2016: Sports East sent back to drawing board

Almost exactly one year ago, when three local businessmen first proposed building Sports East in Mattituck, they felt confident they could do so without applying for a change of...

12.28.2016 Police

Top Stories 2016: Costello pleads guilty

Greenport businessman John Costello, who was accused of causing a fatal car crash while driving drunk in 2014, pleaded guilty Nov. 3 to vehicular manslaughter as part of a...

12.27.2016 Police

Top Stories 2016: $340K donation helps police department

In August, a defendant in Southold Town Justice Court fought with police and court officers in the town hall meeting room. The man was restrained, but an officer was...

12.25.2016 Government

Top Stories 2016: Supreme Court justice visits Orient

How did Oysterponds Historical Society land U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as its special guest for this past summer’s Heritage Day celebration in Orient? John Holzapfel, the historical...

12.24.2016 Business

Top Stories 2016: Sound View changes hands

After more than 60 years of ownership by the Levin family, the Sound View in Greenport was sold in mid-January to Eagle Point Hotel Partners.

12.23.2016 Police

Top Stories 2016: Southold’s top DWI cop fired, sues town

In May, a little over two weeks after Southold Town police officer Garrett Lake was honored with a proclamation for making the department’s largest number of drunken-driving arrests in...