Mary Jean Green has stepped down as president of the Hampton Bays Civic Association, about a month before her term was set to expire, according to Elizabeth Scheure, the group’s... more
The Southampton Town Youth Bureau will host its annual 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament on Friday, March 14, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Southampton Youth Services, 1370A Majors Path in Southampton. Sign-in and warm up drills will start at 6 p.m.. The tournament is open to students in grades five to 12, and prizes will be awarded to the winning teams in middle and high school brackets. Space is limited and team pre-registration of $45 is required by Monday, March 10. Each team member must submit a completed registration form along with payment ($15/player) to the Southampton Youth Bureau, located at ...
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The Quogue Library will hold a series of gardening programs this spring with presenter Mariah Whitmore. The first, on Saturday, March 8, from 3 to 4 p.m., will offer “Common Sense Landscape Tips,” including correct tree and shrub planting, preventing deer browsing and managing water, among other topics. ⋅ “Plants You Have (Likely) Never Heard Of” is up next on April 5, from 11 a.m. to noon, and will focus on overlooked, underappreciated, or unknown trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and vines that thrive on Long Island. May 3 brings “Pollinator Garden and Wildlife Landscapes” from 3 to 4 p.m. The ...
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The Kiwanis Club of Southampton Town will host a St. Patrick’s Day bingo fundraiser on Friday, March 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hampton Bays American Legion Hall, 55 Ponquogue Avenue. Proceeds from the event will help pay for ingredients used in the soups Kiwanis members make for the food pantry. Admission is $30 per person includes two boards and snacks with a cash bar. Extra cards will be available for $10 to share the wealth. To purchase tickets, go to kiwanisclubofsouthamptontown.org.
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The Suffolk County district attorney’s office this week announced that it has filed felony assault charges against the Farmingville man who police have said robbed a Flanders Road deli last September and “pistol whipped” a female clerk with the butt of a handgun multiple times. District Attorney Ray Tierney said that Demario Weston, 22, has exhibited “a disturbing pattern of criminal conduct” in announcing the felony indictment against Weston and his girlfriend, Tiana MacDonald, 24, who was also arrested when police raided their Farmingville apartment in January and found a large quantity of drugs, including fentanyl, that police said the ...
20 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
HAMPTON BAYS — An East Quogue man reported to Southampton Town Police that someone stole his e-bike from outside a Montauk Highway business on February 10. The man said the bike was parked at the business at 6:30 a.m. and when he returned shortly after noon it was gone. Police have identified a Southampton resident as a suspect in the theft but no charges have been filed yet. RIVERSIDE — An employee at the 7-Eleven convenience store on Flanders Road told Southampton Town Police that a white man wearing a red jacket, denim jeans, Nike sneakers and a black scarf, ...
19 Feb 2025 by Staff Writer
Jonathan Swezey Raynor, a devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother, teacher, and mentor, passed away on February 6, 2025, at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 74. Jonathan was born on March 30, 1950, the son of Robert Clinton Raynor and Dorothy Raynor (née Swezey). He was raised in Remsenburg and graduated from Westhampton Beach High School before attending SUNY Oswego, where he met the love of his life, Elizabeth “Betsy” Gaylord. The two married in 1973 and shared a lifetime of love and partnership until Betsy’s passing from glioblastoma in March of last year. A lifelong ...
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Laura Cooper on Aug 25, 2010