Greenport News

Captain Dave Brennan calls it the "casino effect." It works like this. You pay for a trip to Las Vegas or Foxwoods because there's at least a chance you could hit the jackpot.

Info from Mr. Lucius Ware of the Eastern LI Branch of the NAACP: You are invited to join Eastern LI Branch of NAACP members as they travel together to the National NAACP Convention in NYC on July 11-16. The NAACP was founded in New York 100 years ago and the annual convention returns to NYC this year.

Letters will be distributed this week to East End doctors, with letters to patients and employers to follow in July, warning that the end of the Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield's contract with the three regional hospitals is approaching.

Wandering around Greenport looking for Wi-Fi I came across Buttaa TM Cakes, a sleek-looking bakery specializing in cupcakes.

I had a delicious lunch Thursday at Frisky Oyster Bar, the supposedly more low-key offshoot of Greenport's swanky Frisky Oyster.

I was strolling through Greenport, New York last weekend, taking in some of the oldest architecture on Long Island and noticed this metal lobster outside one of the boutiques.

The body found in Farmingville had not been identified as a man or a woman by Friday morning, but police say they are investigating whether it is a missing Greenport teenager.

The uncle of the Greenport teen missing since he attended a party in Southold nearly two weeks ago spoke out Wednesday, expressing bewilderment that his quiet, hardworking nephew has disappeared.

Suffolk County Police are looking for a missing teen whose disappearance has been deemed suspicious.

As Michael Osinski hauls in heavy metal cages from Peconic Bay , he's the picture of an East End oysterman in his waders and a weather-beaten hat.

The 2009 Traveling Exhibition of Plein Air Peconic to benefit the Peconic Land Trust will open at the Clinton Academy on Main Street in East Hampton on Saturday, June 13.

HAUPPAUGE In an effort to promote healthful recreation countywide and enhance the county's open spaces, Suffolk Executive Steven Levy Tuesday announced that the county will provide funding for a trail stretching the width of the North Fork.

There have been times when new graduates could expect to leap confidently into a world eager to catch them.

Three Capital Region counties will receive $20.5 million of federal stimulus funding to build water treatment facilities or upgrade sewer systems.

A 78-year-old Greenport homeowner was arrested Wednesday after he became enraged at a landscaper he had hired, and slashed the convertible top of the worker's vehicle, police said.

Over the years I have been a judge in many juried regional art shows, and most of them, I am sad to say, are the visual equivalent of a sleeping pill.

Although Maiorana vacated his old digs, now occupied by F.O.B. - Frisky Oyster Bar , he's relocated his coffee house and biscotteria across the street - and directly opposite Starbucks.

Grapes and greens aren't all that grow on the North Fork. New restaurants are sprouting, too, even in this sluggish economy.

If you fancy a visit to one of the city's abandoned subway stations or a ride in a vintage train, check out the spring and summer schedule of the New York Transit Museum tours .

As battling the illegal drug trade continues to be a challenge for North Country law-enforcement officers, federal representatives are searching for some help.