Jamesport News

Recession or not, a new crop of wineries, tasting rooms, vineyards and wines is making its way to Long Island wine country this season, suggesting that the business of sipping may not only defy but thrive in tough economic times.

Gregory Blass of Jamesport is now the new Suffolk County Social Services commissioner.

Gabby Pisacano's eyeglasses darken to the shade of a ripe-red grape as he stands in pale sunlight beside the dozen rows of cabernet franc vines his son, Rich, assigned him as a project three years ago.

Just months after the legislature's former Presiding Officer Gregory Blass was named chief deputy of Suffolk Social Services in 2007, his new boss, Janet DeMarzo, moved him out to a building a mile away from the agency headquarters.

The former Antares Cafe caught a wave and morphed into the uber-casual moderately priced Antares Tiki.

It was hopping at The Whitehouse early Sunday. Not that White House - The Whitehouse night club on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, where three patrons and a teenager trying to be a patron were arrested in three separate incidents, police said Monday.

Earlier this year, I wrote with sorrow about the death of Ben Sisson, a beloved North Fork vintner.

Dympna and William Vernon of South Jamesport announce the engagement of their daughter, Dympna Vernon, to Jamie Calandro, son of Edward and Carolyn Calandro of Southampton and Falls Village, Connecticut, and grandson of Thomas and Mary Moore of Southampton.

School budget season is in full swing, and most of the districts in the western half of Southampton Town and neighboring areas have either adopted their budgets for the 2009-2010 school year or are about to do so.

Verizon Wireless has added a handful of new cell towers on Long Island, which should make reception much better in those areas.

Two 14-year-old girls from Flanders had to be rescued early Wednesday afternoon after strong winds pushed a broken piece of dock that they had been playing with along the shore more than a mile out into Flanders Bay, according to the Southampton Town Police Department.

I'm a pretty big video game guy. I have the most advanced version of X-Box 360 and have beaten, on my own mind you, Grand Theft Auto IV without doing any cheat codes.

Main Rd at Manor Lane Jamesport Long Island NY 631 722 3537 http://www.northfork.com/catering/jck.htm Along the north fork of Long Island are dozens of local vineyards and charming local restaurants.

Jersey City : What a great story about Shenika Babb raising her seven siblings while working full time and going to school.

Heard it on the grapevine: Michael Affatato, a Long Island native who owns a winery in France will showcase his vintages at a dinner this Friday night at Jedediah's in Jamesport.

A car hit a utility pole on Route 25 in Jamesport Thursday morning, closing the road in both directions.

A very Victorian Jamesport restaurant and inn has has loosened its collar and rolled up its sleeves to survive the new economy.

Freezing temperatures remain through Saturday. A low pressure system from the west passed over the island Thursday and brought anywhere from one and half inches to five inches of snow, depending on how far east ...

OK, you heard it first here: Tom Schaudel has walked away from the Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport.

Hello and welcome to the last column of 2008! Wow, could that be? Is it really time to celebrate the start of another year? It seems that the older I get, the faster the years go by.