Peconic News

Because of early deadlines for the Thanksgiving holiday issue, please get your news to me by Friday, November 20.

More than 7 acres of panoramic Sagaponack vistas, and the iconic Pike's farm stand, will most likely be preserved through a partnership involving Southampton Town, Suffolk County and the Peconic Land Trust.

Sitting Democratic Town Justice Catherine Cahill, 55, has been on the bench in East Hampton for 16 years.

On one acre of rich Peconic Bay soil, Dan Machin farms alone. "One acre, one man, 100 varieties" is the motto of the Lone Acre , his Long Island farm in Riverhead, New York, where this intrepid young farmer hand sows and harvests crops with no machines or chemicals .

A Westhampton woman is in the hospital and several state and town police vehicles are damaged following a car chase Oct.

Farmland home of Pike's Farmstand in Sagaponack preserved SAGAPONACK Just in time for the fall harvest, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, in conjunction with the town of Southampton and the Peconic Land Trust, this week signed legislation forever preserving an iconic farmstand in Sagaponack and the agricultural land it sits on.

East Hampton Town is still unsure of the accuracy of $1.5 million in chargebacks from its troubled Community Preservation Fund to its general fund that were found by the New York State Comptroller's Office in an audit released in June.

Written by Timothy Bolger on Oct 19th, 2009 and filed under Long Island News , News .

Long Island University last week agreed to sell WLIU-FM to a nonprofit set up to maintain the main public radio station on the eastern end of the island.

What We Drank is a little bit different this week. In honor of Regional Wine Week, organized by DrinkLocalWine.com , which started yesterday, I asked our contributors to pick a New York wine.

This weekend I finally tackled the inevitable and put away my summer clothes and hauled out the fall and winter togs.

The Peconic Land Trust has been awarded two grants totaling $37,000 from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Land Trust Alliance through the Conservation Partnership Program of the Environmental Protection Fund.

So far so good with the Trustees challenge to the fishing license requirement. A judge granted a temporary injunction until October 13 in Southampton, Shelter Island and East Hampton that prevents the DEC from enforcing the licenses wherever the Trustees have jurisdiction.

In an effort to bring as many harvest pictures and as much harvest information to the site as we can, we'd like to invite any and all New York wineries to send us pictures and data from their 2009 harvest.

BEV WALZ PHOTO James Dougherty congratulates the new firefighters. In the white hat on the left is 2nd Assistant Chief John D'Amato. To his right is Nick Gross, Sean McCarthy, Martin Hunt, Robbie Brewer, Andrew Crittenden, Brian Lechmanski and Chief William Rowland.

The incident happened in Peconic Sunday at 4:24 p.m. The victim later found the car - and the alleged thief - on Carpenter Street in Greenport and called the Town of Southold police, who arrested Michael Zervos and charged him with petty larceny.

A New York program that houses the homeless in churches on winter nights is expanding into the Hamptons.

REPORTER FILE PHOTO Fishermen on Island waters may be a familiar sight, but not as common as it was years ago.

Shelter Island, New York Nestled between the North and South Forks of Long Island, Shelter Island is a charming summer retreat for sophisticated New Yorkers and tourists.

NY's Saltwater License is set to begin on Oct. 1. It's been met with harsh criticism by an overwhelming majority of fishermen and those in the industry, but support does exist - provided the license plan is done right.