Moriches News

Colleen Meehan, 19, of Hampton Bays was arrested by Southampton Town Police on Cemetery Road in Hampton Bays at 3:08 a.m. on June 23 and charged with DWI, a misdemeanor, and first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a felony.

The sun decided to shine brightly on the Eastport South Manor High School class of 2009 on Saturday, June 27.

HAUPPAUGE Suffolk County and Brookhaven town officials have announced plans to preserve almost 30 acres of farmland in East Moriches.

WHERE Thursday night at 10 on WLIW/21 REASON TO WATCH An incredible journey, indeed.

If you ever went to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden then you must remember those little lights you could buy.

A pair of local men were sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for their parts in a string of 2007 home burglaries throughout Brookhaven Town.

A woman beaten in the face with a hammer when a gang ransacked her Moriches home said Thursday her attackers "stole my soul," as two of them were sentenced to 50 years in prison.

An environmental group is suing to force a Long Island duck farm to cut the "crap." The federal lawsuit demands that the Jurielewicz Duck Farm in Moriches either close itself down or collect the droppings it dumps in the Forge River.

One driver failed to maintain her lane of travel, and another drove through a stop sign, police said.

Bill Park of Manorville used an outside pole starting position and a first lap caution flag to his advantage Saturday night at Riverhead Raceway on his way to his first win of 2009 in the 35-lap NASCAR Modified feature.

Rain, rain, go away, and don't come back with any grouchy summer folk please. As I was eating my kielbasa, egg and cheese on Sunday morning, waiting for my fishing-wife to arrive at the marina, and trying to keep myself from taking a Magik Scaler to the miserable schmuck who was complaining to the deli guy at 6 a.m. about there not being chicken ...

The second annual Peg Larkin 5K held at the Remsenburg-Speonk Elementary School in Remsenburg got a great turnout and, after days of rain, sunny skies and warm temperatures made the run that much more enjoyable for the participants on Saturday morning.

New York State and Suffolk County lawmakers are angry, and they want others in Albany to know it.

Greetings, my Flanders friends. I have a ton of information to share with you, so I hope you are ready to start reading! It looks like it is going to be a busy week for everyone, so let's get right down to business.

Terrance Fallon, 18, of East Moriches was arrested by Quogue Village Police on Montauk Highway at 4:42 p.m. last Thursday, May 21, and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a felony, driving while his ability was impaired by drugs, criminal use of drug paraphernalia, criminal possession of a controlled ...

OMG! The birds start singing early in the morning these days! At around 4:30 a.m., they start with their morning songs.

When Renee Girard was 11 years old she got her first taste of rowing with two-time Olympian Michelle Knox Zaloom, now president of East End Rowing in Flanders.

Joseph Freyre of Moriches is the music director at the Eastport Music Scene and is leading the free classes.

Some 60 people joined together to cover 83 miles of walking between East Islip and Montauk in the name of helping autistic children last weekend.

When Ron Michne's father, Peter Michne, graduated from what was then known as Eastport School in 1927, his class was three times the size of the class of 1924, and school officials knew that the overcrowded building would soon have to be replaced.