Long Island

Carol J. Raffe of Mint Hill, N.C., formerly of Mattituck and Riverhead, passed away Feb. 28, 2025, after a 10-month battle with leukemia.   She was born in Riverhead Oct.13, 1942, to John and Genevieve […]

Mortimer M. “Mort” Kelly III of Southold, formerly of Rockville Centre, N.Y., passed away Thursday, March 6, 2025. He was 81 years old. Mort was born in February 1944 in Seattle, Wash., to Alice M. […]

Scenes from the 19th annual Cutchogue St. Patrick’s Day parade. (Credit: Jeremy Garretson) As the community gathered along Route 25 for the St. Patrick’s Day parade co-sponsored by the North Fork Chamber of Commerce and […]

Babylon’s swarming defense kept the Tucker’s off balance all game. (Bill Landon photos) It wasn’t the way they had expected it to end. One by one, a teary-eyed bunch of Mattituck High School girls basketball […]

Photo: TRMG/ Angela Colangelo At the height of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, the term “outside agitator” became something of a rallying cry for opponents of equal rights. It was racially loaded, […]

Nick LaLota was elected to represent the First Congressional District. (Credit: John Griffin) Cutchogue How will LaLota vote? Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution states: “All legislative Powers granted shall be vested in a […]

A large plume of smoke from a string of wildfires near Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach. (Chris Francescani/Sunset Beach Films Sunrise Highway from William Floyd Parkway east to Exit 62 in Westhampton was closed to […]

On Feb. 24, a Mattituck senior reported being the victim of a phone scam. The woman reported being contacted by someone claiming to be from Chase Bank, saying her accounts had been compromised. The victim […]

A Greenport man was arrested on drug charges late last month at his Second Street home following the early-morning execution of a search warrant by the East End Drug Task Force. Inside the home, investigators […]