14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (742+ words) Instead, after spending more than an hour Tuesday morning parsing individual words and debating the limits of police authority, the board agreed to put a resolution before the public at its regular meeting Tuesday night that memorializes a response procedure…...

20+ hour, 59+ min ago   (154+ words) The North Fork Audubon Society will hold its annual Fall Native Plant Sale Sept. 19 and 20 at Inlet Pond County Park in Greenport, offering more than 60 species native to the northeastern United States. The locally grown plants, supplied by Glover Perennials,…...

23+ hour, 15+ min ago   (773+ words) Imagine downtown Riverhead almost 100 years ago: Prohibition. The Great Depression. And the unsolved killing of a well-known and well-liked doctor who, according to legend and some locals, still haunts the streets. Then imagine reliving the intrigue of old Riverhead by…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1083+ words) For more than two decades, Rob Walker has spent one Saturday each August standing over the smoky cooking pits at the Cutchogue Fire Department’s annual chicken barbecue, learning the small details that turn thousands of chickens into one of the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1498+ words) The Suffolk County Water Authority came to Southold Thursday evening prepared to explain why it believes the North Fork needs a new water pipeline. In the second half of the hearing, elected officials, environmental advocates and residents told the authority…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (77+ words) A $4 million Southold sale led this week’s North Fork and Shelter Island real estate transfers, with another Southold property changing hands for just over $2 million. Elsewhere, sales included a $1.47 million Cutchogue property and a $1.26 million Orient home. Shelter Island Heights…...

5+ day, 14+ min ago   (1068+ words) The first community garden on the North Fork has reached a significant milestone. The Hallockville Museum Farm Community Garden on Sound Avenue in Riverhead is in the midst of its 20th season of producing several tons of produce every summer, as…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (334+ words) For one summer day in Greenport’s Mitchell Park, local children get an up-close, hands-on introduction to police work — climbing aboard patrol vehicles, sounding the sirens, meeting K-9 teams and watching police drones take to the sky. The annual Paul Drum…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (706+ words) Aug. 10 – Around 1 a.m., a resident on Island View Lane called police to report hearing someone inside home. Responding officers spoke with a 31-year-old Tuckahoe man, who told them he had sent a text to his aunt to let her know…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (659+ words) Southold Historical Museum is launching a new effort to expand the volunteer corps that helps keep one of the North Fork’s busiest cultural institutions running — from caring for tens of thousands of artifacts and maintaining historic buildings to staffing dozens…...