Gardening: Bring the colors of Easter to your garden
By Ellen Barcel
You may have seen ornamental pepper plants in the stores this time of year. NuMex Easter Ornamental Pepper (Capsicum anuum) is...
Spring and Easter Hoppenings on the North Shore
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny
The Youth Group at St. Joseph’s Church, 59 Church St., Kings Park will host its annual Easter egg hunt on...
Cooking Cove: Egg-citing recipes from the Easter Bunny
By Barbara Beltrami
No need to take a hard-boiled attitude toward the surfeit of Easter eggs. I know, I know. How many hard-boiled eggs can...
Photos of the Week
HERE COMES SPRING!: Bev Tyler captured these stunning images of songbirds at a feeder in a Setauket backyard on March 30. Above, a male...
A veritable baby barnyard blooms at Benner’s Farm
Benner’s Farm, 56 Gnarled Hollow in Setauket had quite a busy week as many of their sheep and goats gave birth, with the help...
Conserving century-old Vanderbilt Museum marine specimens
Twelve fish and five flamingos recently left their home in The Hall of Fishes at Centerport’s Vanderbilt Museum in the care of taxidermist George...
Shelter Pet of the Week: Bella
MEET BELLA! This little girl is Bella, who, as her name implies, is beautiful inside and out. A pug/beagle mix, she is 5 years...
Port Jeff and Comsewogue library budgets overwhelmingly passed by community
The community sent a resounding message of approval for two different library budgets April 4 — a vast majority of voting residents are happy...
Dix Hills woman murdered, boyfriend arrested
Suffolk County Police arrested a Dix Hills man for fatally shooting his girlfriend in Dix Hills Thursday night, April 14.
Police said Eric Bermudez confronted...
The solid wisdom of youth
When I was in college, I wrote an essay in a seminar. In such a small class, we read everyone else’s writings each week...
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