Pine Island News

What do you do when the love of your life passes away? If you're anything like Audrey Feldman you find a group of ladies in a similar situation, play cards, eat food, tell naughty jokes, and of course write a book about all the exceptionally interesting lives they all have had. Audrey Feldman, 79, of Pine Island, New York, self-published The Irreverent Ladies Society of Orange County through Create Space .

Victoria Garloch, center, hopes to expand her new Pine Island soup kitchen's hours to twice a month.

By JEFF SISTRUNK jsistrunk@njherald.com The Michigan woman implicated in the 2008 death of a pipeline worker outside Legends Resort was sentenced Friday to a four-year prison term but may soon be released on parole.

The floods that destroyed much of the Black Dirt onion crop in August and September left migrant workers in desperate straits - with no crop to pick.