04.24.2024 Community Calling all good eggs: It’s national volunteer month Area nonprofits are looking to recruit — and salute — volunteers. April is National Volunteer Month — and April 21-27 is National Volunteer Week — a commemoration that has...
03.30.2020 COVID-19 Mattituck students clean beaches to earn community service, keep active while schools are closed In the age of coronavirus, people are being urged to stay home and flatten the curve. A series of orders from Gov. Andrew Cuomo has shuttered schools and nonessential...
11.24.2015 News Former mayor David Nyce building new menorah for Greenport synagogue It took more than a year of planning and six months of construction, but a new — and in true North Fork spirit, locally crafted — menorah will grace...
06.21.2015 Community A longtime Custer volunteer who fell ill has donated his telescope for others Since the 1940s, Alarico “Rico” Verticchio has been looking at the skies. An amateur stargazer, he fell in love with the stars as a child. He would stop in...
10.19.2014 Environment Help Cornell researchers restore native eelgrass beds Researchers from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County are looking for volunteers willing to spend a day on the water to help restore marine life habitat.
10.19.2013 Columns Hashagen Column: Confessions of a professional volunteer Has anyone ever told you that you “just have to learn to say no”? Do you feel guilty when you have to choose between participating in two benefits on...
