Greenport High School grad arrested after FBI says he participated in riot at...
A Greenport High School graduate, who federal investigators have alleged is a member of the Proud Boys extremist group, was arrested Friday for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in...
View ArticleNew mixed-use development with up to 40 affordable apartments proposed in...
A new mixed-use development with up to 40 affordable apartments may be coming to Greenport. Local developer Paul Pawlowski confirmed Friday that he is in contract to purchase the four-acre property at...
View ArticleSurvey says public wants parklets to return in Greenport this summer
As vaccines become available to more adults and economic reopening continues, some are looking forward to a “normal” summer. “There’s a strong light at the end of the tunnel,” said Greenport Business...
View ArticleGas grills could be banned from Fifth Street Beach Park as village weighs new...
To discourage large gatherings, should Greenport Village ban gas grills from the park at Fifth Street Beach? In response to complaints about parking, crowds and noise last summer, officials have been...
View ArticleBoys Soccer: Greenport’s Calate, Southold’s Fredricks come up big in draw
A golden goal never materialized, but two pairs of goalkeeper gloves were golden. When it comes to high school boys soccer goalies, Greenport’s Jeyson Calate and Southold’s Gavin Fredricks are...
View ArticleGreenport AD, seeking return to coaching, submits resignation
Athletic director or coach? As Chris Golden saw it, he had a choice to make, and it really wasn’t a tough decision at all. When it comes down to a question of either/or, Golden leaves no doubt about...
View ArticleGreenport Village official arrested on child pornography charge
A Greenport Village official was arrested on a federal child pornography charge Wednesday morning, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District Court of New York. David Corwin, 72,...
View ArticleGirls Volleyball: Tuckers, now 8-1, take winning approach to compressed season
Coach Frank Massa had a philosophical question for his Mattituck girls volleyball players before the start of this compressed season: Did they want to treat this as a season in which they were just...
View ArticleDriver in fatal Greenport hit and run sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison
The driver in a hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a Peconic Landing woman last July was sentenced to 3 to 9 years in prison on Tuesday. Denilson Eduardo Gomez Jolon, 20, of Greenport pleaded...
View ArticleCops: Greenport woman arrested on driving while impaired charges after...
A 20-year-old Greenport woman was charged with driving while impaired and driving out of class after she left the roadway and struck a bicyclist on Route 48 in Southold Sunday afternoon. Southold...
View Article24,000 volunteer hours — and counting for Greenport woman at ELIH
For someone who has put in so much time — more time than any other Eastern Long Island Hospital Auxiliary volunteer has ever logged — the time had finally come for Nora Busch to be acknowledged for...
View ArticleEarth Day Cleanup of Greenport’s Moore’s Woods planned for Saturday
An area of Greenport once described as its “hidden gem” will get some much-needed TLC during a cleanup event in honor of Earth Day. The village is hosting the cleanup of Moore’s Woods on Saturday,...
View ArticlePlan for mini railroad back on track in Greenport
A plan to resurrect a miniature railroad in Greenport cleared its final hurdle last week as the state Department of Environmental Conservation approved a wetlands permit for the project. “After three...
View ArticleAnonymous donor funds upgrades at former school to help homeless outreach...
As winter set in across the North Fork, Dan O’Shea, director of Maureen’s Haven in Riverhead, saw that the group’s homeless outreach program at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport was under severe...
View ArticleGreenporter made a difference through public service, charity and more
Greenport’s No. 1 cheerleader was a big, hard-hitting lineman for the Greenport High School football team. Craig Richter (Class of 1967) was a right tackle on one of the great Greenport teams of the...
View ArticleGreenport Village looks to Southold Town Board for help funding sewer upgrade
With critical upgrades to Greenport Village’s sewer system planned, officials are turning to the Town of Southold for help. The proposed $1.5 million project would upgrade the central pump station on...
View ArticleGreenport library gets $15,000 grant for laptops, tablets
When Tom Vitale became director of Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport last fall he realized there were pockets of people in the village who could not afford laptops or tablets or, if they had them,...
View ArticleSouthold Town ZBA approves special exception for battery storage
An 80-megawatt battery energy storage facility proposed in Greenport got the go-ahead during a town Zoning Board of Appeals meeting last Thursday. In a 4-0 vote, the board approved a special exception...
View ArticleMeet the four candidates running for Greenport Board of Education
Four candidates are running for two open seats on the Greenport Board of Education. Incumbent Babette Cornine is seeking a fourth term, but longtime board member Dan Creedon announced he would not...
View ArticleDances in the Park to return to Greenport in August; pair of ships will visit...
Last year, the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench into most summer plans, but events are making a comeback in 2021. At a village work session Thursday, officials outlined a tentative schedule of...
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