Speonk News

This week I'm going to start my column a little differently because I think it is important to recognize the hard work, determination and leadership of Sally Pope.

The weekend is over and I am still congratulating myself for not eating any candy this Halloween.

Avital Oz, 67, of East Quogue was arrested by Quogue Village Police on Station Road at 2:45 p.m. on October 14 and charged with petit larceny, a misdemeanor.

For the whole story, pick up the October 22 edition of The Southampton Press-Western Edition, on newsstands Wednesday evening.

A Southampton woman reported to Southampton Town Police that someone broke into her son's Bay Avenue home and stole a television worth $900, a PlayStation 3 gaming console, and a laptop computer.

Jack Pfeiffer won't deny that the name of his restaurant, A Little Dinner at Jack & Diane's, is a play on the well-known John Mellencamp song "Jack and Diane." "Instead of a 'little ditty,' it's a 'little dinner,'" the Manorville resident said with a smile.

First and foremost, let me congratulate Brian and Sue Sommer of South Bay Avenue in Eastport on the birth of their daughter, Ava Marie, who was born at Stony Brook University Medical Center on the evening of Saturday, October 3. Pink is the color of choice on South Bay as we welcome Ava and Sue back home this week.

For some time now, I have been wrestling with a bit of a conundrum. I'm wondering if self-awareness is enough to mitigate the plain facts, or if I am just trying to comfort myself from the inevitable.

Guy Bobersky, from the DEC, Richard Baldwin, Ron Paulsen and Rob Decandia, assured residents that they are doing all they can to find the source of the plume.

Members of a committee charged with providing the Remsenburg/Speonk School Board with a plan to expand the district's elementary school said they were surprised to learn that board members kept them in the dark about another long-range study that was also being formulated.

Tumbleweed Tuesday has come and gone, and yet there are still so many things to do here in our own little slice of heaven.

On a sunny morning this week, Nidzyn Avenue in Speonk appeared as it usually does: An immaculate street comprised of well-maintained homes, only steps away from tony Remsenburg, where mothers wheel their infants in strollers, joggers and bikers wave in greeting, and the laughter of children playing outside mingles with the sounds of birds singing.

Local Rotarians skipped their weekly lunch meeting on August 25 and instead drove a few miles west to Camp Paquatuck in Center Moriches.

Eastport firefighters responded to a blaze at an abandoned house in Speonk Thursday morning.

Southampton Town Police charged the following individuals with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, last week: Patrick Toth, 26, of Coram; and Redro Contreras, 43, of Hampton Bays.

Eastport firefighters responded to a blaze at an abandoned house in Speonk Thursday morning.

Eastport firefighters responded to a blaze at an abandoned house in Speonk Thursday morning.

Those who know me, even only slightly, know that I'm a sucker for a good carnival.

Those who know me, even only slightly, know that I'm a sucker for a good carnival.

The Remsenburg/Speonk School Board on Monday agreed to support a proposed study that would examine the possibility of creating a centralized high school district in Westhampton Beach.