Author: Beth Young

Beth Young is an award-winning local journalist who has been covering the East End since the 1990s. She began her career at the Sag Harbor Express and has reported for the Southampton Press, the East Hampton Press and the Times/Review Media Group. She founded the East End Beacon website in 2013, and a print edition in 2017. Beth was born and raised on the North Fork. In her spare time, she tinkers with bicycles, tries not to drown in the Peconic Bay and hopes to grow the perfect tomato. You can send her a message at editor@eastendbeacon.com
Arts Visual Arts

Seeing Riverhead with fresh eyes

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_373" align="alignnone" width="600"] Looking out on downtown Riverhead.[/caption] Wednesday was a typical morning in downtown Riverhead. Police and EMTs were bandaging up a motorcyclist who'd been struck at the corner of Roanoke Avenue and Main Street, in preparations to take him to the hospital, while further east on East Main Street, women who were walking alone heard the booming jeer of a catcalling street denizen asking them where they
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Environment

Rainy day vegetables

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignnone" width="600"] Garlic planted last fall is in good shape this time of year.[/caption] It's on rainy early June days that the East End's gardens begin to pop. Vegetable and flower plants that had been seedlings just days earlier react to the heat and moisture and rapidly become full-grown plants. But while you're waiting for the those little plants to become a salad, there's not much to do
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News The Business Accelerator

Boat dreamin’ at the Greenport show

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_362" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wilde Yacht Sales' Minor 27 at the Greenport Boat Show. My next boat.[/caption] I used to have a boat, but now I don't. She was a 24-foot Irwin sloop that I found in an advert on a website during the early days of the internet. She was 30 years old and already no one wanted her. I've heard this happens to women too. Yikes. I made
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Opinion

The ocean doesn’t like you

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_244" align="alignnone" width="600"] This beach is in Sagaponack somewhere. photo b. young[/caption] Sand fleas. BMWs stretching to the horizon. Sandy bottoms. Dirty feet. Stinky bathrooms. Rancid hot dogs. Rip currents. Disinterested lifeguards. And you think the ocean likes you? It's time once again for the media's annual glorification of the East End's beaches. This whole phenomena came about, in part, because a guy named Dr. Beach, who sometimes hangs
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Environment News

East Enders take a stand against Monsanto

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_86" align="alignnone" width="600"] Protesting at the leaning tower of Shelter Island. Victoria Shields Weslek facebook photo[/caption] Protesters who have it in for genetically modified food took to the streets the world over on May 25 to argue their case against Monsanto, the multi-national agricultural biotechnology company that has a lockhold on global food production. Two modest protests were held concurrently with the national protests in Shelter Island Heights and
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News

Fireboat still at Greenport pier…for now

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_217" align="alignnone" width="600"] Firefighter at Mitchell Park Marina's east pier on Thursday.[/caption] Ever since the cold and sunny February day when retired New York Fire Department fireboat "Fire Fighter," now a floating museum, docked in Greenport, she's been a major village attraction. But the boat's short-term lease to rent a prime section of village dock space expires June 15, and Greenport still has no word from Suffolk County on
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In the World News

FEMA says it can find you

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_202" align="alignnone" width="600"] Long Neck Boulevard, Flanders. Oct. 30, 2012. photo b. young[/caption] Just in time for hurricane season on Long Island, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is launching a new campaign to let the world know that they can tell you when a disaster is about to strike. At the same time, East End airwaves and mailboxes are inundated with information prepared for "Hurricane Preparedness Week," just when
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Uncategorized

Welcome to The Beacon!

Beth Young
[caption id="attachment_230" align="alignnone" width="600"] Montauk Point. June 1, 2013. b. young photo[/caption] Hello, and welcome to the East End Beacon. We hope the news here will always be fresh and interesting! It's easy to see the East End as a fractured assemblage of social stratum gone amuck. There's the jet set crowd and the helicopter-hater crowd, the North Fork and the South, those of us whose families go back generations
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