Northport News

The sun is bright and boats bob in the marina. I have a glass of white wine in one hand, a raw clam in the other, enjoying both in the shade of an umbrella.

With all the channels on broadcast TV and cablea 'and the inevitable episode repeatsa 'it's hard to sort out what's new or worthwhile.

It appears the dolphins sighted last week on the North Shore have no plans to leave just yet.

A few years ago, Thea Mansuetto was so fed up with - and frightened by - vehicles whizzing by her driveway on Bread and Cheese Hollow Road, just 200 feet north of Pulaski Road, that she doubled the width of her driveway so she would have enough room to turn around and exit front end first.

Police are still trying to figure out why a garbage truck's brakes failed, causing a horrific accident yesterday just after 8am.

A driver was killed after a Long Island garbage truck fell on her car, police said.

Those dolphins that have been hanging around Long Island Sound must like the place.

I see potential at The Lark Pub and Grub, which opened about two weeks ago in the East Northport digs of the former Blue Room.

The driver of a garbage truck that flipped over and fatally crushed a woman in East Northport Monday told police the truck's brakes failed moments before the crash, authorities said.

EAST NORTHPORT, N.Y.: Police say a driver was killed after a Long Island garbage truck fell on her car.

State Assembly members are sending $85 million in special spending projects to more than 4,000 programs, agencies and charities in their home districts. Seventy of the grants, referred to by some as pork-barrel spending and by others as Community Project Funds, are in the town of Huntington. Here are the recipients in Northport:

Mary Frances, passed away on June 26, 2009 from complications due to the autoimmune disease Lupus.

Legis. Steve Stern , chairman of the Veterans and Seniors Committee has arranged for the Suffolk County Senior Mobile Van to visit the East Northport Super Stop and Shop at 3126 Jericho Turnpike on July 1 from 10:30 am until noon and from 1 to 3 pm.

A large group of dolphins -- perhaps as many as 75 -- has been reported between Huntington and Northport Harbors. These photos were taken in Huntington Bay on Friday around 12:30 p.m. by Garett J. DeLuca. Reports are that the dolphins arrived Thursday night.

Painters from around Long Island will gather in Northport Friday and Saturday to take part in Northporta s 3rd Annual Plein Air Painting Event.

Marge of Greenlawn, on March 15, 2009. Loving wife of the late Eugene, formerly of Massapequa Park.

Jeffrey Connor when he played for Northport. By Jim Hoops The Fourth Annual Jeffrey Conner Memorial Scholarship Fund Golf Outing is set for Wednesday, July 15, at Crab Meadow Golf Club.

Compiled by Virginia Dunleavy, Daria Arnold and Danielle DeBouver. Centerport A mailbox was discovered stolen June 15 on Adams Street.

The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is proud to announce its first Milonga, Tango in the Courtyard, featuring Nelson and Madalyn Aviles and DJ Yesim La Turca on Sunday, July 12, from 6 to 10:30 p.m. The Vanderbilt is a rambling Spanish-style mansion sitting high on a bluff overlooking Northport Harbor and is the perfect site for a dance.

We have not seen anything on the matter and have been curious. Now at least there are two of US wondering.