VIDEO: Utility pole falls in our parking lot, transformer explodes

During Monday night’s Village of Patchogue meeting, the board unanimously approved arequest to repeal Section 435-19(A)(3) of the Village Code to eliminate Garden Apartments,apartment houses …

Food drive Fridays

Anchor Real Estate of Long Island is in the holiday spirit—are you? Among her business’ employees, family, friends and contacts (Jane McLaughlin, an attorney in Medford, Hamlet Title …

Patchogue Village embraces the holiday season with a Small Business Saturday kickoff

“Patchogue is open!” said Colony Shop owner Lori Belmonte as she prepared for this weekend. The holiday-famous “Elf on the Shelf” will be making its Main Street, Patchogue, …

Matching grant to help raise Plaza Cinema funds

Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center executive director Catherine Oberg has been heartened at the recent response by the community to match a $50,000 grant from an anonymous …

‘A yacht-like, durable good’

Neither lacrosse softwall rebounders nor brick walls are really that adequate for wall ball exercises. Laxworx, a Patchogue-based company, recently released its Lacrosse Hardwall Rebounder 2.0, which …

A Toast (Coffeehouse) to Harmony (Café)

There’s COVID. And then there’s kindness. Sometimes, kindness is innate, with or without a pandemic, so in this case two socially conscious entities are teaming up. Toast Coffeehouse …

Small Business Saturday is fast approaching, and the Bellport Chamber of Commerce will be providing light music in the Bellport Village from 12 to 2 p.m. to enhance the experience of each and every …

Friends of Bellport Bay reaches restoration milestone

With the assistance of community volunteers, Friends of Bellport Bay has reached the goal of planting a total of 1 million oysters in Bellport Bay, in its fifth year of the initiative. Thomas …

Art show draws hundreds

With mass-gathering art taking a bow for the foreseeable future (Broadway is now dark until at least June 2021), local art shows carry a heavier burden of filling that gap for the art lovers’ …

Designing an ADA-compliant entrance for Village Hall

It’s a quick stroll from the sidewalk up the bricked walkway at Bellport Village Hall, then two steps up and over a riser. Easy for able-bodied villagers, but for a person with walking …

Scarecrow contest coming, just low-key

The scarecrows will inhabit Bellport Village this year. You’ll just have to make them at home. Pick up your materials at the Community Center at 4 Bell Street on Saturday,Oct. 3 from noon …

Bellport Village eyes grant for Fire Island improvements

Bellport Village has hired Davidoff, Hutcher & Cintron LLP to aid in applying for a piece of a $1 billion federal Fire Island to Montauk Point project, a funding source for hurricane …