Eastport News

An Eastport firefighter helps Kindergartner Helen Yac shoot the fire hose after the Fire Prevention Assembly at the Remsenburg-Speonk Elementary School earlier this month.

Amidst all the spin ofA "Oh, the market's back now" and "I did more sales than you did", there is some interesting facts in the reports for the 3rd Quarter of 2009.

Why is he seeking re-election? Mr. Lesko said he wants to continue to explore more ways to cut spending in Brookhaven.

After several months of deliberations and tweaking, Eastport South Manor Board of Education members this week approved a $60.8 million school construction plan that includes a new elementary school building at Eastport Elementary School.

I like to look ahead and see what days certain holidays fall on. This year Halloween falls on a Saturday, which is a good thing, especially if you are a teacher.

The Eastport Fall Festival will be held on Saturday, October 17, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Eastport Elementary School on Montauk Highway in Eastport.

First and foremost, let me congratulate Brian and Sue Sommer of South Bay Avenue in Eastport on the birth of their daughter, Ava Marie, who was born at Stony Brook University Medical Center on the evening of Saturday, October 3. Pink is the color of choice on South Bay as we welcome Ava and Sue back home this week.

A Grape Pear owners Krystle Harb and Jim Borruso designed and built the store. 509 Montauk Hwy., Eastport 631-801-2790 www.grapepearwine.com Jim Borruso and Krystle Harb haven't taken a day off since they opened their Eastport wine store on July 4. In fact, since they have no employees, they have done little else but attend to the new business.

The record for the biggest pumpkin - now that it's October, I can discuss this - was set in 2007 with the winner weighing in at 1,689 pounds.

With less than two months to go in what is already a contentious run-up to the November general election, Southampton Town Republican Committee Chairman Marcus Stinchi ceded control to his successor, Ernest Wruck, a former committee vice chairman who served under Mr.

Chris Rizzo, now 33 and an employee of Otis Ford in Quogue, fondly recalls the long theater rehearsals and working behind the scenes for plays, such as "Wait Until Dark" and "Fools," at what was then the South Manor Dayton Avenue School in the early 1990s.

Two Eastport residents complained last week about unstamped campaign fliers supporting highway superintendent candidate John McGann.

Autumn officially arrived Tuesday and it was preceded last weekend by some beautiful September weather.

Work on the new Westhampton Free Library remains on budget though the facility's grand opening date still has not been pinned down due to construction delays caused by June's soggy weather, according to the builder.

The Southampton Town Republican Party, already in the midst of a tumultuous election season, will soon be looking to new leadership to guide it through rough waters.

In teaching my kids how to budget money in real life, I give them each a certain amount of cash every spring and fall to spend on clothes.

Labor Day 2009. After a summer of catering to everyone else, including children, house guests, summer people and renters, it was so nice to enjoy a long weekend off.

Eastport South Manor Superintendent Mark Nocero at a School Board meeting on August 26.

That was more than six decades ago. Sixty one years, to be exact. And while the years have aged and changed him in many ways, and changed countless other people and things about the East End region he loves, one of the things that have remained constant is his devotion to the Southampton Village Fire Department and to fire departments and ...

Eastport firefighters responded to a blaze at an abandoned house in Speonk Thursday morning.