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The Mudflats: America at their Fingertips

Beth Young
If you live in Orient, you've heard the fiddles, driving drumbeat and tight rural harmonies of The Mudflats, echoing out of Poquatuck Hall or spreading on the breeze across the Oysterponds Historical Society's grounds. This band appears to have blossomed onto the North Fork music scene over just the past couple years, but many of its members' lives have been woven together for decades, from Nashville to Washington DC to
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Librettist Lee Bynum, Director Tanya Birl-Torres and Composer Natalie Brown are the New York-Based creative team adopting Mr. Wick’s book into an opera.
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New Team Builds an Opera from Steve Wick’s “All That Remains”

Beth Young
On a fall day in the 1990s, North Fork-based journalist Steve Wick was shopping at the King Kullen in Cutchogue when he saw a man wearing tattered clothes balance two grocery bags on the handlebars of a bicycle and pedal off.  Pictured Above: Librettist Lee Bynum, Director Tanya Birl-Torres and Composer Natalie Brown are the New York-Based creative team adopting Mr. Wick’s book into an opera. His curiosity piqued, Mr.
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Letters: EPA Rollbacks & International Whirlwinds

East End Beacon
Pictured Above: EPA Administrator and former East End Congressman Lee Zeldin at his 2025 confirmation hearing. Don't Breathe Easy with EPA Rollbacks Dear Editor, Twenty-five years ago, I founded the nonprofit Community Health and Environment Coalition (CHEC) to confront Long Island's unusually high cancer rates and investigate possible environmental causes. We worked with the New York State Department of Health, the Suffolk County Health Department, medical professionals, and residents, guided
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Spring Theater: The Founding Fathers (And Mothers) Have Something to Sing About

Beth Young
The North Fork Community Theatre doesn’t usually do musicals in March, but this year the company is thrilled to have the rights to produce “1776,” the 1969 Broadway hit that gave audiences a glimpse into the drama that took place in the room where the Second Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence. Running March 12 through March 29, this show has been cast by veteran director of musicals Huck
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Nicholas Auletti and Savannah Jean Moore in rehearsal for "I Do! I Do" |. Dane Dupuis photo for HTC
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Spring Theater: “I Do! I Do!” Is A Heartfelt Reflection on Our Vows

Beth Young
What does it take to sustain a marriage over the better half of a century? The Hampton Theatre Company’s spring production of the 1960s Broadway hit musical “I Do! I Do!” has some of the answers, and it also provides a rare opportunity for members of the audience to renew their vows. Pictured Above: Nicholas Auletti and Savannah Jean Moore in rehearsal for "I Do! I Do" |. Dane Dupuis
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Connecting The Threads of Long Island’s Natural World

Beth Young
Tunnels for frogs under major roads. A friendly dog that sniffs out box turtles. Restoring horseshoe crab nesting areas along the Peconic Estuary. Exploring the true causes of trauma for endangered whales and the dangers rodent poison poses for raptors. The Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University was packed on Feb. 26 with naturalists looking to find a way for an island synonymous with suburban sprawl to coexist
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Viewpoint: Community Matters, Above All Else

East End Beacon
by Anne H. Smith, Ed.D. Southold Town Councilwoman The opinions here reflect why I believe the work of town government in partnership with local organizations and nonprofits has value. These opinions are my own. How do we help our neighbors through the lens of humanity and friendship?  Southold is a place where we come together as neighbors during a crisis or when there is a cumulative impact on basic needs.
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Photos: Southold Winterfest

Beth Young
The Fifth Annual Southold WinterFest couldn't have come on a more perfect winter day, Saturday, Feb. 21, sandwiched between a rainstorm and a blizzard in one of the most miserable winters in recent memory. View this post on Instagram A post shared by East End Beacon (@eastendbeacon_li) The event is organized each year by the Southold Town Economic Development Committee, whose goal is to “facilitate successful economic growth and revitalization
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Editorial: Don’t Quit on Greenport

East End Beacon
Greenport is often called the heart of the North Fork. This tiny village is a rough-and-tumble place that, like seaports through the ages, has welcomed newcomers to its docks and stores and homes. Through boom and bust cycles driven by macro and micro-economic forces, the heartbeat of this village has always been the tough but compassionate people who call this place home — whether they were born here or not. As
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Featured Letters: On Traffic Cameras, Mattituck Apartments and LaLota’s Stand on Immigration

East End Beacon
Disturbed by Surveillance Cameras To the Editor: I was really disturbed by your recent story about surveillance cameras on the East End of Long Island. For anyone who thinks that surveillance cameras only identify bad guys and the rest of us have nothing to worry about, think again.  Last summer, a surveillance device on the ferry from Greenport to Shelter Island wrongly identified my car as lacking registration. I was
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Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant Returns

East End Beacon
The Shelter Island Library is now accepting applications for the fifth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. This grant of $1,000 is awarded each April to the library's annual poetry competition winner. Applicants must be unpublished poets aged 17 or older and reside on the East End of Long Island (Riverhead and points east).  Bliss Morehead was a resident of Shelter Island who dedicated much of her life to the art
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