Articles by Chris Francescani

A Nathaniel Currier lithograph featuring the 1840 wreck of the steamboat Lexington in the Long Island Sound. (Courtesy picture) One hundred and eighty-five years ago this week, during one of the coldest winters on record, […]

Candace Hall with Brandon Grace (far right) and community team member Matt Duell at the NoFo Kid Connect basketball tournament in July, 2024. (Credit: Bill Landon) Next week, some of Greenport’s finest young basketball players […]

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon was joined by County Executive Ed Romaine and other officials in calling for more help from the federal government following a rash of drone sightings at Francis Gabreski airport. (Credit: […]

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine joined Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon at a press conference calling for federal help with drone intrusions over Gabreski airport in Westhampton. (Credit: Chris Francescani) A rash of more than […]

“Where is Joni Mitchell when we need her?” Greenport resident Diana Gordon asked the Village Board at a meeting last week, citing Ms. Mitchell’s hit ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ in opposing a proposal to pave over […]

Southold Records Management Assistant Stacey Norklun is in charge of digitizing all of Southold Town’s records. (Credit: Chris Francescani) Tucked away at a corner desk in a modest back office in Southold Town Hall, one […]

The Village of Greenport will pay nearly a third of the cost of dredging Stirling Harbor. (Credit: Chris Francescani/Sunset Beach Films) The Greenport Village Board voted last week to cover nearly one third of the […]

Stirling Harbor in Greenport is need of a dredging, according to business owners in the harbor. (Courtesy photo) Greenport’s Stirling Harbor business community is petitioning the village to conduct a maintenance dredge at the mouth […]

Mary Eisenstein moderates at the official launch of the Cutchogue Civic Association at Cutchogue-New Suffolk Free Library. (Credit: Melissa Azofeifa) Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has effectively upheld Southold Town’s 2020 eminent domain seizure […]

courtesy photos Edy Herrera, the young man who died last week in a tragic house fire in Mattituck, was remembered by his friends at a memorial service on Monday as a hard-working, deeply-spiritual Guatemalan native […]