Skate Park receiving face-lift ahead of Sunday’s festival
Volunteers help make upgrades to the Greenport Skate Park on Moores Lane Tuesday afternoon. (Credit: Cyndi Murray) The final touches on a $45,000 project to rehab Greenport Village’s skate park are...
View ArticleEliminating sewer smell won’t be as costly as expected
Greenport’s sewage treatment plant requires $18,000 worth of repairs. (Credit: Cyndi Murray, file) Eliminating the foul odors exuding from Greenport’s sewage treatment plant will cost roughly $17,000...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Corwin likes the fight he sees in Porters
Darius Strickland of Greenport rising up for a shot in a wild game against Hampton Bays. (Credit: Garret Meade) Depending on your vantage point, it was either the best of playground basketball or...
View ArticleDespite outcry, historic Greenport mailbox is taken down
The thin, cement post that once held a cast-iron Greenport mailbox was left behind after workers removed the historic box Tuesday. (Credit: Paul Squire) Greenport business owners and residents wrote...
View ArticleGreenport News: What a time at ‘Porterpalozza’
he Greenport High School class of 1964 (pictured) celebrated the 50-year anniversary of its graduation Friday night with dinner and dancing at Townsend Manor. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder) What can you...
View ArticlePhotos: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ opens Friday
Northeast Stage rehearses William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ (Credit: Katharine Schroeder) Northeast Stage will present William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Greenport’s...
View ArticleGreenport Village hosting annual water quality hearing Monday
The Greenport Village Board will meet tonight to host its annual public hearing to discuss federal and state mandates, commonly known as MS4, which are aimed at improving water quality. Under orders...
View ArticlePublic split over events at Mitchell Park
The village sponsored Dances in the Park is not impacted by the ban on events in Mitchell Park. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder, file) There was no shortage of competing ideas during Monday night’s...
View ArticleSkate Park Festival raised $600 toward upkeep, board members say
Christopher Thomas, 8, of Bay Shore skates at Sunday’s festival. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder) Sunday’s Greenport Village-sponsored Skate Park Festival was dubbed a success by village board members,...
View ArticleVillage takes full control of Railroad dock
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Suffolk County officials have given up control of the Railroad Dock. The Railroad Dock on Third Street in Greenport is no longer under county control. In a unanimous vote...
View ArticleMissing parrot gets spotted in East Marion neighborhood
Joyce Culver and her Senegal parrot, LuLu. Lulu, the beloved parrot of Joyce Culver of Greenport who went missing last Saturday, was spotted this past weekend in East Marion. Ms. Culver said that Lulu...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Tuckers let the 3-pointers fly
Mattituck’s Chris Sledjeski goes airborne while Greenport’s Nick Droskoski tries to stop him. (Credit: Garret Meade) With the exception of the summer league attire, this could have been mistaken for a...
View ArticleLacrosse Shootout draws more than 4,000 people to Greenport
The playing fields of Greenport High School were the site for more than 4,200 lacrosse players, coaches, parents, umpires and spectators for the 21st annual Greenport Lacrosse Shootout this past...
View ArticleGreenport News: Stand Up 2 Cancer benefit Saturday
Summer, slow down! In just about three weeks August will be history and Labor Day weekend will be upon us. I’m not quite ready for summer to end. This is to let parents know that things will be a bit...
View ArticleGreenport business owner ends short-lived mayoral run
Marc LaMaina says he no longer wants to be mayor of Greenport Village. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) Less than two months after announcing his intent to run for village mayor next year, Greenport...
View ArticleGreenport taxi service gets official OK to operate from mini-mart
Layyah began operating a taxi service without receiving permission from the village. (Cyndi Murray photo) Seven months after a Greenport convenience store began running a taxi service out of its...
View ArticlePhotos: ELIH hosts its annual summer gala in Orient
Enjoying cocktail hour under the trees. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder) Eastern Long Island Hospital held its annual summer gala at the former site of the House of the Seven Gables in Orient Saturday...
View ArticleAuction at White’s Hardware draws more than 30 bidders
An auction at White’s Hardware Wednesday attracted a few dozen bidders. (Credit: Cyndi Murray) More than 30 people, some traveling from as far away as Brooklyn, descended on White’s Hardware in...
View ArticleFireboat museum hopes to serve alcohol during Maritime Festival
Fire Fighter docked in Greenport Village. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder, file) The fireboat Fire Fighter museum is hoping to become the latest vendor at the annual East End Seaport Museum Maritime...
View ArticleMTA: Buses to replace weekday trains while track repaired
LIRR riders board an eastbound train out of Riverhead last summer. (Credit: Steve Rossin, file) Due to construction projects and track repairs, buses will be replacing Long Island Rail Road trains...
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