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Arts Center Will Host Greenport Chapter of Butterfly Effect Project

Beth Young
The Butterfly Effect Project, a youth mentorship project with its roots in the Riverhead School District, is expanding to Greenport this fall thanks to a new partnership with the North Fork Arts Center — a new community arts clubhouse in a former movie theater right downtown. Pictured Above: Tijuana Fulford and Alison Omens at a recent fundraising event. The Butterfly Effect Project’s programs meet every other week to work on
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Rabbi Gadi Capela and Paul Nadel, a member of Congregation Ohel Moed, at their new meeting space in Cutchogue.
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New North Fork Jewish Congregation Finds a Home for the High Holy Days — And Maybe Beyond

Beth Young
The new Jewish congregation begun this spring on the North Fork by Rabbi Gadi Capela took its name, Ohel Moed or "Tent of Meeting," from the fact that it was a sanctuary without walls, meeting in the homes of its members. But this fall, the congregation has found a home in Cutchogue for the High Holy Days, and perhaps beyond, with the blessing of the Catholic Church. Pictured Above: Rabbi
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Photos: 69th Annual Cutchogue Fire Department Chicken Barbecue

East End Beacon
The Cutchogue Fire Department’s 69th Annual Chicken Barbecue — still Long Island’s largest chicken barbecue — was held Saturday, Aug. 22. From afternoon until well into the evening, the Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary served up more than 3,200 chicken dinners — complete with local corn, tomato & cucumber salads, potato salad and peaches and ice cream — under the big tent and through takeout in the department's new firehouse.
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You Can Be A Part of Greenport Maritime Festival!

Beth Young
Have you ever wanted to row a gig with your neighbors or build a cardboard boat or go parading as a pirate through the streets of Greenport? Now's your chance to get involved. There are big changes afoot at this year's Greenport Maritime Festival, which will be held the weekend of Sept. 25 through Sept. 27, but many of the traditions that have built this community celebration of its nautical
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Captain Kristopher Ensley (left) and Ryan Harned of Cutchogue (right) aboard The Eagle Friday morning.
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Getting Your Sea Legs and Building a Tool of Peace: Two Views of the Eagle’s Mission

Beth Young
Over the course of a summer, nearly 300 "swabs" — new recruits at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. — get their sea legs aboard the 295-foot three-masted square rigger Eagle. Three groups of about 90 cadets just out of high school get a chance to crew the Eagle after about four to six weeks at the Academy. It's a crash course in teamwork, leadership and taking responsibility
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A Call For Unity At Southold’s Picnic Saturday

Beth Young
Southold Town's Unity Picnic has been bringing families from all different backgrounds together for nearly two decades, and this Saturday the event returns to the Peconic Lane Community Center for an afternoon of music, food, family activities and fellowship with neighbors throughout town. The event, from Noon to 4 p.m. is organized by the Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force, which promotes diversity, unity, and understanding between residents of Southold. Last year,
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Wild Dome(e)ination Tour Opens ReWild Gardens in Riverhead

East End Beacon
If you participated in ReWild Long Island's spring North Fork Sustainable Garden Tour but were unable to make it to the gardens in Riverhead, take heart! Two fascinating Riverhead gardens will be open to the public again this Saturday, Aug. 8, from 9 a.m. to Noon. The gardens include Calverton Meadows, a wild place on the edge of a forest, and Dome Gardens on the grounds surrounding Kevin Shea and
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Photos: Jamesport Fire Department Firemen’s Parade

Beth Young
View this post on Instagram A post shared by East End Beacon (@eastendbeacon_li) The Jamesport Fire Department held its 71st annual Firemen's Parade on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. Fire and EMS agencies from across Long Island joined Riverhead School District students, local sports leagues and non-profits and a sea of tractors driven by local farmers for this annual tradition, which fittingly took place under smoky skies due to wildfires in
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Photos: The East End Celebrates America’s Birthday

East End Beacon
Thousands of people braved brutal temperatures on the Fourth of July to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that created the United States of America. We had correspondents from Shelter Island to Southold to Riverhead and Southampton sharing photos throughout the day, but we started our day in our own backyard in New Suffolk, where the New Suffolk Civic Association's 35-year-old tradition of a
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“Unstoppable Pride” Returns to Greenport

East End Beacon
It wouldn’t be June without Pride, and on Saturday, June 27 the village plays host to the fourth annual North Fork Pride parade and festival, which kicks off at with a parade at Noon from Main & Broad streets to Mitchell Park. The festival, showcasing restaurants and artisans along Main and Front streets downtown, runs through 5 p.m.  This year’s Pride theme is “Unstoppable Pride — Here. Now. Always.”  The
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Juneteenth Celebrations Abound

Beth Young
The East End is filled this this week with events celebrating the newest national holiday — Juneteenth — which marks the date in 1865 when enslaved residents of Galveston, Texas learned of the Emancipation Proclamation — more than two years after it issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Here's a smattering of what's going on: Unfinished Business in Southampton The Southampton African American Museum's Annual Juneteenth Celebration, this year
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