04.22.2022 News Retired professor reflects on time in Ukraine as war continues to ravage country George Lomaga stood outside Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck after Mass on Easter Sunday talking about a country he has lived in and where all...
04.07.2022 News Retired Mattituck pediatrician, nurse wife lend a hand in Ukraine A bright yellow and blue Ukrainian flag flutters in the breeze on the front porch of the Mercier home in Mattituck, next to the American Stars and Stripes. It...
03.25.2022 News Greenport gallery sale to benefit Ukrainian orphanage Walter de Groot, owner of Greenport Art & Design Emporium, bought over 20 original oil paintings by well-known Ukrainian artists at an art auction about a decade ago in...
03.20.2022 News As war rages in Ukraine, Greenport student’s plan to attend prestigious ballet academy upended The Russian invasion of Ukraine should not have impacted Peter Gwiazda, a high school student thousands of miles away on Long Island. But the ripple effects of the devastating...
03.20.2022 Editorials Editorial: Refugees seeking safety from war is a familiar story The story of the MS St. Louis, an ill-fated passenger ship that left Hamburg, Germany, in May 1939 en route to Cuba, is well known by Holocaust scholars. Among...
03.18.2022 Columns Column: For Billy Joel, helping Ukraine is personal Billy Joel grew up in a family that had known firsthand what it meant to be refugees in search of safety and freedom. His father, Helmut Joel, and Billy’s...
03.15.2022 News Suffolk Theater to host ‘All For Ukraine’ benefit concert on March 27 Gary Hygom, executive director of Suffolk Theater in Riverhead, was watching the news last Sunday about the war in Ukraine and decided he had to do something. “I was...
03.13.2022 Editorials Editorial: ‘Freedom isn’t free’ is on full display at church Watching the horror of the Russian aggression in Ukraine — the long lines of refugees, children being carried by their frightened mothers fleeing the violence, the fathers staying behind...
03.09.2022 Education Mattituck Students organize book and toy drive for children fleeing Ukraine When war broke out in Ukraine, Misia Uklanska, a Mattituck High School sophomore, knew she had to do something to honor her grandmother, a World War II survivor from...
03.08.2022 News When war began, Anna Marynyak, 62, walked miles to Poland to reach safety Anna Marynyak’s trip to her native Ukraine in late December was meant to be a family reunion. Her plan was to stay until Feb. 27 and then fly back...