10.27.2012 News County executive declares a state of emergency for Suffolk With Hurricane Sandy heading toward landfall early next week, County Executive Steve Bellone on Saturday declared a state of emergency for all of Suffolk. The executive also ordered a...
10.16.2012 News Enviro group blasts Plum Island report; public hearing Thursday The environmental study prepared in the event the federal government sells Plum Island, currently home to a foreign animal disease research facility just off the tip of the North...
09.15.2012 Top News Air Guard will host Zodiac boat race in Peconic Bay Tuesday Summer is just about done, but boating season is far from over. That’s true for sailboats, powerboats and even military inflatables. Teams of former Air National Guard rescue personnel...
09.06.2012 News ‘Rust tide’ found in Peconic Bay First there was the brown tide, then the red tide and now, floating in waters at either end of the Peconic estuary system, are patches of what New Englanders...
08.27.2012 News Hudson City Savings to be taken over by Buffalo bank Hudson City Savings, a New Jersey-based bank that completed a major expansion to the East End in the first half of the last decade, is to be acquired by...
08.24.2012 Police Cops: Southold patrolman injured while subduing suspect in Riverhead A Southold police officer suffered a deep cut to his knee requiring treatment at a local hospital when attempting to arrest a Peconic man in connection with an offense...
08.16.2012 News Dearth of jellyfish a real head-scratcher locally If someone pens a folk song about the Peconic Bay estuary this summer it could be titled, “Where have all the jellyfish gone?” And the answer is, nobody knows....
07.21.2012 Columns Column: Collectible books and too-short skirts So other than sitting on the deck at a place called McSeagulls overlooking the harbor while enjoying a cool yet spicy “dark & stormy” — for the uninitiated that’s...