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Members of Southold Girl Scout Troop 3040 bring joy to San Simeon The Girl Scouts pictured outside San Simeon in Greenport Thursday: (from left) Olivia Zehil, Julia Judge, Caroline Fannon, Samantha Maskiell and Rylee Owens. (Credit: Steve Wick) For the girls in Southold Girl Scout Troop 3040, helping others just comes naturally. They feel strongly it’s part of their duty as scouts, with an emphasis on giving back and respecting the communities they live...

Greenport looks to Southold for help funding sewer upgrade, Scouts bring joy to San Simeon The daily update is a podcast briefing on what’s happening across the North Fork. ​Get the daily update delivered straight to your inbox each weekday morning by subscribing to our newsletter. Or listen through Apple Podcasts by subscribing to Closer Look. Here are the headlines across the North Fork for Monday, May 10. THE SUFFOLK TIMES

The daily update is a podcast briefing on what’s happening across the North Fork. ​Get the daily update delivered straight to your inbox each weekday morning by subscribing to our newsletter. Or listen through Apple Podcasts by subscribing to Closer Look. Here are the headlines across the North Fork for Wednesday, May 5. THE SUFFOLK TIMES

The Southold Indian Museum is located across Main Bayview Road from Custer Institute and Observatory. (Credit: Steve Wick) Members of the Custer Institute are opposing plans for the installation of exterior lights at the neighboring Southold Indian Museum, saying it would interfere with the stargazing experience at their observatory. The museum, which celebrates Native American history and was founded on Main Bayview Road in 1962, has proposed a new front entryway with an...

After 35 years, Poppy Johnson retires from Floyd Memorial Library Poppy Johnson during her final day at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport Friday. (Credit: Steve Wick) In 1986, after enrolling in secondary schools and dropping out and trying to be an artist in Paris, Poppy Johnson landed a part-time job at the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport. Her years of searching for a path she could be happy on had taken her from Greenwich Village, where she grew up...

WWII Vet in Laurel looks back on 100 years John Harrison in the kitchen of his Laurel home Tuesday, the week before his 100th birthday. (Credit: Steve Wick) As he nears his 100th birthday, John Harrison looks back and sees nothing but good fortune. From growing up in Brooklyn to his marriage in 1943, while he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, it’s all been a great journey. “I attribute it all to my Irish luck,” he said. Perhaps the most dra...

WWII Vet in Laurel looks back on 100 years John Harrison in the kitchen of his Laurel home Tuesday, the week before his 100th birthday. (Credit: Steve Wick) As he nears his 100th birthday, John Harrison looks back and sees nothing but good fortune. From growing up in Brooklyn to his marriage in 1943, while he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, it’s all been a great journey. “I attribute it all to my Irish luck,” he said. Perhaps the most dra...

From left, Carla Caccavale, Lindsay Ezikian, Leanne Simonsen and Sal Khan with K9 Reis. (Credit: Courtesy of Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office) On a warm Saturday afternoon, Leanne Simonsen met a pup whose work with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department will be made safer because of a foundation established to honor her fallen husband, Brian. At a ceremony outside the department’s administration building in Riverhead, Reis, a 2-year-old Dutch Shepherd and his handle...

At Peconic Recreation Center, a day long in the making as 1,000 doses of vaccine administered Residents received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at the Peconic Recreation Center. (Credit: Steve Wick) For the hundreds of people who lined up at the Peconic Recreation Center Thursday morning to receive their first COVID-19 vaccination, the day was a miracle long in the making. In fact, “miracle” was a word used by several people who heard...

(Credit: Steve Wick) Although there was a notice of COVID-19 vaccine being available at Stony Brook, the reality for Shelter Islanders remains that nothing is close and with more than 400 people registering their desire to get the vaccine on the Police Department’s Code Red site, only 60 so far have received the vaccine, Supervisor Gerry Siller told the Town Board at its Wednesday work session. There are still 383 people signed up who have not managed to get inoculated...