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Update: Crazy Beans reopens after small fire sparks in storage room
Crazy Beans in Greenport was evacuated after a small fire sparked inside the restaurant’s storage room Friday morning, authorities at the scene said. The fire was reported around 10 a.m. and...
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Repair to village power plant engine costs $140K
The Greenport Village Board authorized $140,000 to pay for repairs to one of the village power plant’s engines last month. Village workers discovered that Engine No. 4, the oldest of the village’s...
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Halloween parade marches through Village of Greenport
More than 100 children and kids at heart gathered in Mitchell Park Saturday morning for a Halloween parade up First Street. The event, dubbed the March of the Goblins and Hounds, kicked off with an...
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Greenport songwriter Hugh Prestwood releases first album with outside label
Lately, Hugh Prestwood has spent a lot of time in the personal studio above the garage at his Greenport home. A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Mr. Prestwood gets great pleasure from...
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Grand jury indicts alleged Greenport attacker on rape, kidnapping charges
A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted the suspect in last week’s attack in a wooded area of Greenport on felony rape and kidnapping charges, according to online court records. Jose Amadeo Perez,...
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Local artwork goes up at Greenport’s Mitchell Park carousel
The carousel at Greenport Village’s Mitchell Park has come a long way. Built around 1920 in North Tonawanda, N.Y., the carousel was purchased by Grumman in Calverton, who used it for company picnics...
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Costello pleads guilty to vehicular manslaughter, avoids jail time
The Greenport businessman accused of causing a fatal car crash while driving drunk in 2014 pleaded guilty Thursday morning to vehicular manslaughter as part of a plea deal. John Costello, 73, was...
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Local historian, theater director Tom Monsell, dead at 83
Thomas Monsell was many things, friends said: a former Lindenhurst schoolteacher who wrote a book on how to teach Shakespeare, a director of local theater who expanded Greenporters’ horizons and...
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50 years ago today, a young man was killed in Greenport
A local story has been waiting five decades to be told. For the past four years, much of the narrative has been sitting on my desk. Before that, it spent decades in files at Suffolk County police and...
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Thanksgiving meals return to Holy Trinity Church; donations sought
For the third year in a row, the Rev. Jimmy Smiley of Reel For God Outreach Ministries and his wife, Caprice, will provide free Thanksgiving meals at Holy Trinity Church in Greenport. Everyone is...
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Girls Cross Country: She’s a team of one, but not alone
Emelys Villareal, a track and field athlete who had no cross-country background, said she had always wanted to run cross country before. Even though her school doesn’t have a cross-country team, that...
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Greenport paddler competes in 31-mile river competition
In the early hours of Oct. 22, Chris Dowling climbed aboard his 14-foot stand-up paddleboard just as he’s done countless times. On this day, however, he was surrounded by hundreds of other stand-up...
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Greenport man indicted in $5 million investment scheme
A Greenport man was among three suspects indicted this week in connection with an alleged $5 million investment scheme, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced Tuesday. Timothy...
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After PSEG sweetens deal, Greenport Village Board to back Fifth Street project
PSEG Long Island’s controversial plan to run a cable line under Greenport’s Fifth Street and across the bay to Shelter Island will be moving forward with the Village Board’s blessing. At Thursday...
View ArticleGreenport breaks ground on school garden expansion
The Greenport School District hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Friday to celebrate its school garden expansion. The project was made possible by a $10,000 grant the school received from the...
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Fire Fighter museum starting to run out of options
Faced with recent roadblocks in raising money for restoration of the decommissioned FDNY fireboat docked in Greenport, Charlie Ritchie has launched a new fundraising campaign with the help of a...
View ArticlePeconic Landing in Greenport ranked among best nursing homes
For the sixth consecutive year, Peconic Landing in Greenport has been named one of the nation’s best nursing homes as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. The lifecare retirement community is among...
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Trustee: Let’s do something about short-term rentals in Greenport
Village Trustee Douglas Roberts has drafted his own version of a Greenport Village short-term rental law, saying at last Thursday’s meeting that it’s time for the board to act. “If we’re going to do...
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Boys Basketball: Meet the next generation of Porters
The next generation of Porters has arrived. While the Greenport High School boys basketball team has endured its struggles over the past two years, there has been talk about good, young players rising...
View ArticleVillage could add Wiggins Street rental to housing authority
Greenport Village may be adding another rental property to its housing authority. Homeowners on Wiggins Street have offered to sell their property — which is now being rented to tenants — to the...
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