Southold 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.

Faced with a mounting deficit, East Hampton town officials decided they could save a few thousand dollars by not mailing semiannual tax reminder notices to property owners.

BELLMOREWoman arrested in identity theft case A Bellmore woman was arrested on charges she used another woman's identity for prescription drugs, police said.

A police officer arrested a Cutchogue woman on a drunken driving charge late Tuesday after he found her car stopped on the wrong side of the road, police said.

Had last year's fireworks show been scheduled for the weekend of July 4, it might never have happened.

Two Lutheran churches on the South Fork lost their pastors last year, and while the search for a new spiritual leader can be a trying time for a congregation, Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton and St.

Jun 16, 2009 6:00 pm US/Eastern Reporting Jennifer McLogan SOUTHOLD, N.Y. Investigators on Long Island's North Fork said tips they received led them to believe the search may be a race against time.

The uncle of the Greenport teen missing since he attended a party in Southold nearly two weeks ago spoke out Wednesday, expressing bewilderment that his quiet, hardworking nephew has disappeared.

He went to a party, and then he vanished. That's about all police know for sure about Eber Lopez, 15 , a boy who has been missing for almost 2 weeks, since attending a party at a home in Southold on June 6, 2009.

Eber Lopez, 15, of Greenport. A missing Greenport teenager may be the victim of foul play, Suffolk police said Tuesday.

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

Summer is my favorite season. I love to spend my evenings on the terrace, with dinner sizzling on the grill, and the song of crickets in the air.

HAUPPAUGE In an effort to promote healthful recreation countywide and enhance the county's open spaces, Suffolk Executive Steven Levy Tuesday announced that the county will provide funding for a trail stretching the width of the North Fork.

There have been times when new graduates could expect to leap confidently into a world eager to catch them.

A 78-year-old Greenport homeowner was arrested Wednesday after he became enraged at a landscaper he had hired, and slashed the convertible top of the worker's vehicle, police said.

The new director of the Rogers Memorial Library got her start on Monday, diving into her job just as Southampton enters its peak season.

Erica Fischbach wasn't ready to teach the first time she was asked to be a dance instructor.

East End artists Kevin Teare, Ellen Wiener, and Lucy Winton, whose work is included in the Parrish Art Museum's current exhibition "Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End," will discuss their art in the galleries on Saturday, May 30, starting at 2 p.m. Each artist will speak briefly about his or her work, and then answer questions ...

East Hampton High School freshman Trevor Shea, dressed as a police officer, and Christina tk.

Melissa Borruso and Jeremy Michael Rice were married May 2 at St. Patricka s Church in Southold.