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Snow storm blankets the North Fork, Plum Island sale may be blocked 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 Thursday, Dec. 17. THE SUFFOLK TIMES

RN Kristen Hansen gives Peconic Bay Medical Center’s first dose of the COVId-19 vaccine to Dr. Nicholas Palamidessi last month. (Credit: Steve Wick) On Tuesday morning, just 24 hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in New York State, a UPS truck arrived at Peconic Bay Medical Center to deliver a single box of the first doses to the North Fork. Nine months and a week after the coronavirus arrived, forcing local residents to battle for their lives and livelihoods, the weapon to win the war, as the vaccine has been described, is here. “This is an amaz...

Murder suspects lured victim to secluded area for robbery, according to court documents The two suspects charged with murder, Tyara Lemus, left, and Alcides Lopez-Cambara pictured at their arraignment at Riverhead Justice Court in December. (Credit: Steve Wick) The two suspects charged with the murder of a Sag Harbor man in Riverhead last month allegedly lured the victim to a secluded area with the intention of robbing him and then beat him with a “blunt force object,” according to the felony criminal complaint filed in Riverhead Town Justice Court. T...

At two hospitals, sadness in the time of COVID can be overwhelming Shota Mamukashvili, a registered nurse and emergency nurse manager at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, in front of the Greenport facility’s emergency room. (Credit: Steve Wick) In the emergency rooms and intensive care units at Peconic Bay Medical Center and Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, the days are often long, physically and emotionally exhausting and, for some on the staff, excruciatingly sad. Last winter and spring, COVID-19 was a brush fire that refused to go ou...

The two suspects charged with murder, Tyara Lemus, left, and Alcides Lopez-Cambara pictured at their arraignment at Riverhead Justice Court in December. (Credit: Steve Wick) Update (11:30 a.m.): Two suspects charged with second-degree murder were remanded without bail during brief court appearances Thursday morning. (See updated story here.) Alcides Lopez-Cambara, 40, and Tyara Lemus, 18, both entered pleas of not guilty at their arraignments before Riverhead Judge Lori Hulse. Neither the assistant district attorney nor the defendant’s attorneys shed any light on the ...