Blotter: A suspicious blue car, hot pink graffiti and an ‘assassin’ in swim goggles
A suspicious blue car with a faded license plate. A mysterious pink spray-painting near a historic monument. A rogue skateboard ramp at Mitchell Park. A mulch fire. And, in Mattituck, a goggle-wearing high school senior sprinting through the streets insisting he was being followed — all part of another unusually colorful week in Southold Town…
Mother-daughter team opens Bread and Butter & Bottle in Aquebogue
From the past and into the present, a recently modernized market and liquor store on Sound Avenue is beginning its next chapter — and its new owner is excited to…
Greenport housing committee proposes denser downtown, villagewide ADUs
After months of study and internal debate, Greenport’s Affordable and…
After criticism over delays, Greenport advances plans for a permanent ice skating rink
Two months after a public clash over whether Greenport was…
North Fork & Shelter Island real estate transfers, May 25, 2026
The residential sales record for Shelter Island has just been…
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Every spring, a delicious thank-you lunch reminds North Fork EMTs how much their work matters
On a picture-perfect spring afternoon overlooking the water at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, the smell of…
Farming by the stars: Farrm Wines becomes Long Island’s only biodynamic-certified vineyard
The 60-acre Farrm Wines vineyard in Calverton, Long Island’s only 100% certified organic vineyard, recently added…
Food & Lifestyle
Greenport Farmers Market returns May 23 with new Saturday morning schedule
The Greenport Farmers Market is set to return to Mitchell Park later this month with a…
Inside Silver Sands Motel’s new Salt Marsh Wellness Sanctuary
It’s just past 6 a.m., and my eyes slowly flutter open. The inside of Milo’s Beach…
Real Estate
North Fork & Shelter Island real estate transfers – May 17, 2026
Orient sees biggest sale since 2023 Not since June 29, 2023 has a residential property in…
North Fork & Shelter Island real estate transfers – May 10, 2026
North Fork real estate market cools as just one home sale tops $1 million The first…
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Blotter: Dead chickens, rogue fishing nets and a stolen yoga mat
From mysteriously dead chickens in Mattituck and a man screaming in Greenport because his vape “died,” to rogue fishing nets in Peconic Bay and an…
Blotter: Drifting docks, a sneezing driver and a feud over toilet paper
From drifting docks in Mattituck Inlet and a trailer overflowing with trash in Greenport, to a roommate dispute sparked by toilet paper, and a driver…
Blotter: A hospital scuffle, a flying orange and a pair of deli break-ins
From a hospital patient accused of swinging at a security guard in Greenport to an early-morning orange hurled at a Front Street window, the Southold…