Shoreham News

The fifth-seeded East Hampton field hockey team visited number one seed Shoreham/Wading River for the Class B semifinals readyEast Hampton's Danielle Waleko returned from a first half injury and played the entire second half.Photos by Drew BuddBy Drew Budd

Choosing between Conservative incumbent Jane Bonner and Democrat challenger John Leonard, a deputy town supervisor, was no easy task.

Why is she seeking re-election? Ms. Bonner said she hopes to continue to make government run more efficiently and be more accountable to the residents, touting her support of the initiative to install GPS systems in town vehicles and her policy that ended the use of take-home cars for town employees as examples of her previous efforts.

A deal has been struck to preserve the 65-acre Vassilaros property in Miller Place, county and town officials said.

If the picture above looks familiar, that's because it's already been published in this newspaper twice.

Finally, home-renovation payback is going in the right direction: yours. During the housing boom, it was tough to get a contractor to take your call, much less accept the job and charge a fair price.

When asked Wednesday to explain her opposition to several key development issues in her council district, Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner didn't hesitate with an answer.

LYN EVANS PHOTO Lt. Peter Martin of Miller Place is one of seven local residents remembered at the county's new Sept.

In an effort to reimburse the Shoreham-Wading River School District for $4 million in state aid that was cut earlier this year and to mitigate an unprecedented tax spike, Assemblyman Marc Alessi has filed suit against the State of New York.

A brutal assault Tuesday night at a tattoo parlor on Broadway in Rocky Point may have been the handiwork of the Hells Angels bikers gang, authorities said.

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO Linda and Martin Keller were given a framed copy Tuesday of a resolution approved by the state legislature mourning the death of their son Sergeant Jonathan Keller, who died earlier this year of injuries suffered in combat last year near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

A sample taken from a pool of mosquitoes captured earlier this month in Rocky Point tested positive for the West Nile virus, the Suffolk County Department of Health reported this week.

Peggy Spellman Hoey Photo Sixteen-year-old soccer player Daniel Mauricio Cornejo Carranza was memorialized by his friends near the site where he was struck by a car and killed while riding his bicycle to his summer job on Route 25A in East Shoreham Sunday morning.

A 19-year-old man was struck and killed by a minivan in East Shoreham early Sunday as he rode his bicycle to work, Suffolk Police said.

It is well known that beer is an acquired taste. Greg Martin of Port Jefferson Station and partner Dan Burke of Shoreham have not only acquired the taste, both men have also acquired the skills needed to brew traditional Irish-style ale.

ROBERT O'ROURK PHOTO Shoreham-Wading River graduate Sean Norberg won the 5K in 17:08. When Sean Norberg looked back on his running career at Shoreham-Wading River, he remembered how in any given race he could be first or seventh.

This Studio 360 episode is a wonderful place to start in today's appreciation of "the father of electricity." This PBS documentary is also great.

Psychologist Ilene Wasserman was a slight woman, so petite that her colleagues jokingly nicknamed her "Birdie." "She was this fragile-looking individual, but she really had the heart of a warrior," said Michael Canzoniero, a psychologist in Shoreham.

A resident of North Country Road in Shoreham called at 8:30 am June 1 to report his home had been burglarized sometime over the past two days.

ROBERT O'ROURK FILE PHOTO Shoreham-Wading River senior Bobby Andrews placed third in the 1,600 and fifth in the 3,200 at the state championship last weekend.