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Another season of Dances in the Park kicks off in Greenport
The crowd in Mitchell Park. The first of the Dances in the Park series drew a huge crowd to Mitchell Park as the Bobby Nathan Band performed and young and old alike took to the stage to dance. As the...
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VIDEO: See the Tall Ships like never before
See the Tall Ships from a unique vantage point. (Credit: LePre Media/Andrew LePre) One by one we lined up this week to see the Tall Ships in Greenport. Many of us even had the privilege to see them...
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Column: So who really benefits from Tall Ships?
The Tall Ships crowd along Front Street Sunday afternoon. (Credit: Vera Chinese) A colleague asked me a question this week that I’ve heard quite often in recent months: Who exactly benefits from Tall...
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Tall Ships brought people to Greenport from near and far
A view from above the 2015 Greenport Tall Ships Challenge Monday morning. (Credit: Andrew LePre/LePre Media) David Berson has made his living on the water. As the captain of the Glory, a solar-powered...
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Man suffers laceration from boat propeller in Gardiner’s Bay
Onlookers watch as Mark Coen is brought to a police helicopter in Greenport Saturday. (Credit: Sonja Reinholt-Derr) A Connecticut man suffered several lacerations to his thigh after his shirt became...
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Construction begins on improved basketball court in Greenport
Contractors began work on replacing the Fifth Street Park basketball court in Greenport Monday. (Credit: Grant Parpan) Fifth Street Park in Greenport is about to be home to a brand new basketball...
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Boys Basketball: Next generation of Porters have game
Darrius Strickland, a junior guard, is one of Greenport’s biggest talents. (Credit: Daniel De Mato) Better days are ahead for the Greenport High School boys basketball team. Evidence of that can be...
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Greenport News: CAST’s Youth Council reunion
Coach Dorrie Jackson would have been proud to see the turnout of his former football players at Skipper’s Restaurant July 4. I’d say approximately 100 people gathered together in memory of a great man....
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Village ready to reject state funds for drainage project
A controversial proposal to build a drainage swale in a large portion of Fifth Street park went down without much of a fight at Thursday’s Greenport Village board work session, despite the fact that...
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Update: PSEG says power outage was on Greenport’s end
PSEG has denied any responsibility for an outage that lasted three hours in Greenport Sunday. Village Mayor George Hubbard had said a short in a PSEG line in Southold that supplies power to Greenport...
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This Greenport voice actor is now in a galaxy far, far away
Tom Spackman doesn’t want his picture taken. Sure, he’s been in a few television shows and performed in classic plays on the New York stage. He even has a devoted fan-base. If you search online for...
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Village of Greenport offers explanation for Sunday’s outage
The Village of Greenport released a statement on its website Thursday regarding the outage that left the entire village without power for more than three hours Sunday afternoon, forcing some businesses...
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Get your bids in! Claudio’s auction ends July 31
Interested in buying the famous Claudio’s restaurant in Greenport? Better decide soon: the bid deadline of July 31 is fast approaching. Check out northforker.com for more information.
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Four decades later, a Greenport friendship could save a life
More than 40 years after they met inside Mrs. Coon’s Greenport Elementary School classroom, Beth Reed wants to give her childhood friend Joann Tamin a special gift: a healthy kidney. Years ago, her...
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Have the Guardian Angels made a difference in Greenport?
Like it or not, the Guardian Angels are digging in their heels after months of outreach in Greenport and Riverhead. The crimson-clad community-watchers say they’ve been patrolling once or twice a week...
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Vote on Greenport power plant agreement delayed, for now
The Greenport Village Board of Trustees put off a vote Friday on a proposed lease with Global Common, the Garden City company looking to build a peak energy power plant on about three acres of...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Settlers hang tough, advance to league final
This was all about toughness, and the Southold First Settlers proved that they were tough enough. Perhaps it started with Noah Mina wrestling for the basketball with a Center Moriches player on the...
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Photos: Northeast Stage’s latest performance hits Greenport
Northeast Stage presents Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfe Night, or What You Will’ beginning tonight in Greenport. The show is directed by Hannah Gray and produced by Amie Sponza and Sarah Storjohann....
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Cops: Yacht catches fire at dock, sinks in Greenport
A 42-foot Silverton yacht caught fire and sunk at a dock near the end Gull Pond of Lane in Greenport late Saturday night, Southold Town police said. The intense heat from the 9 p.m. fire also caused a...
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Greenport Village considering 30-day rental minimum
Greenport Village is considering a short-term rental law that sets 30 nights as the minimum stay, more than twice as long as Southold Town’s proposed law. On Monday, village code committee members...
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