Southold News

Just days after the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation closed shell fishing in Sag Harbor Cove and Upper Sag Harbor Cove, Simon Harrison was approved by the village board to raise oysters on a fixed village dock next to the Breakwater Yacht Club on Bay Street.

A special Judges Choice Teeny Award will go to the Shelter Island School cast of "Legally Blonde" for this Greek chorus scene.

Both houses of the New York State Legislature have passed a measure that would allow the municipalities of East Hampton, Southampton, and Southold to transfer land, at little or no cost, to the trustees of those townships.

The Beers Bay house on Reynolds Channel, one of the Town of Hempstead bay houses suffered damage from superstorm Sandy.

Environmental groups from both sides of Long Island Sound joined local and federal officials this week to talk about the future of Plum Island, but all were hard-pressed to say with certainty what that will be.

Shelter Islanders rubbed shoulders with Manhanttanites in April at the opening of the Sylvester Manor Exhibit at New York University's Bobst Library on Washington Square in Greenwich Village.

The Shelter Island Town Board, worried that losing one of its two remaining underwater electrical cables could lead to rolling blackouts this summer, has approved a $9 million Long Island Power Authority plan to replace a damaged third line.

A Shelter Island man who was arrested two weeks ago faces new charges after being caught in possession of heroin in Cutchogue Friday night, Southold Town police said.

The Town of Southold is debating how to allow shellfish farmers to set up roadside stands to sell farmed oysters, scallops and clams, much as traditional land-based farmers do.

It began with a child's imagination triggered by naturally occurring recognizable shapes - no sculptor's chisel necessary - inspiring awe and imbedded in the picture book of his mind.