Peconic News

Peconic Bay Medical Center's third annual Peconic Bay Polar Bear Plunge will be held on Saturday, December 5, starting at 11 a.m., at Iron Pier Beach off Pier Avenue in Riverhead.

SIEF student participants included the following: Front row, from the left, SIEF President Phil DiOrio, Tom Card, Matt Murphy, Serina Kaasik, Elizabeth Dunning, Lindsay Galligan, Caitlin Binder and Luke Gilpin.

AIA Peconic, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects, recently held its annual meeting and the membership elected a new president and vice president for 2010.

A network of volunteers and service organizations were represented at the United Methodist Church on the first Friday in November, preparing for the opening of Maureen's Haven, a temporary homeless shelter, in East Hampton.

A Manorville environmental remediation company is suing Peconic Paddler in Riverside, charging that the owner of the kayak rental and tour business still owes more than $140,000 for cleanup work that was completed two years ago.

What a difference a few years can make. I know why most New York wineries release reds within two years of vintage.

It's too soon to conclude from encouraging results early in the bay scallop season that the future is rosy for the Peconic Bay system.

Even more promising is that the Peconic Bay system is showing a large increase in juvenile scallops born this year, hinting at a much better season next year.

The chef-owner of Stone Creek in East Quogue doesn't put scallops on his menu at any other time of the year, but in November, he said, "we start looking for them, and the customers start asking for them.

Local With Local : Sherwood House Vineyards 2007 Oregon Road Chardonnay and Peconic Bay Scallop Chowder I first tasted Peconic Bay Scallops in the early 1990s on a weekend getaway to the North Fork.

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.