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Pastor Natalie Wimberly Receives Southold Town's Helen Wright Prince Award
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Watch: Rev. Natalie Wimberly Receives Southold’s Helen Wright Prince Award

Beth Young
Pastor Natalie Wimberly has been inspiring the North Fork community from the pulpit at Clinton Memorial AME Zion Church in Greenport for the past decade. On Oct. 8, she was honored by the Southold Town Anti-Bias Task Force with the Helen Wright Prince Award for her commitment to inspiring and educating North Forkers in a celebration at Peconic Landing. Rev. Wimberly has been an active advocate for social justice during
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Photos: Fourth Annual North Fork Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Beth Young
We had a great time Saturday morning joining a community determined to end dementia at the Fourth Annual North Fork Walk to End Alzheimer’s at Peconic Landing in Greenport. As of Saturday evening, more than 240 walkers and 36 teams had raised nearly $124,000 to support the Alzheimer’s Association’s research and support services. You can still donate to the North Fork walk through December, online here. This Saturday's walk also
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Bill Albertini and Ellen Wiener at the opening for Metafloric
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Meditations On Our Place in the Natural World

Beth Young
Each speck of blood flowing liquid through your veins is filled with the heavy element of iron, and the pieces of the innards of plumbing fixtures coursing through your house are also made of a fixed concoction of elements — be they metals or plastics.  But what they have in common is a connecting narrative thread — of the relationships between civilization, nature and physical laws — ideas that we’re
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New Suffolk Waterfront at high tide Saturday.
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Updates: Storm Begins to Taper Off Sunday Afternoon

Beth Young
Duck Pond Road, Cutchogue, Sunday, 11 a.m. Update: Sept. 27, 3 p.m.: All Cross Sound Ferry departures for today have been cancelled, but service is slated to resume from New London at 7 a.m. Monday and from Orient Point at 9 a.m. Monday. PSEG-Long Island reports that 18,500 of its customers are still without power, with the largest outages on the East End still in Southold, where 756 customers are
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Maritime Fest Mermaid web
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Greenport Maritime Festival Rescheduled to Oct. 16-18

East End Beacon
Due to this weekend's impending nor'easter, the 36th Annual Greenport Maritime Festival will move to October 16 to 18, the organizers announced on Sept. 21. It had originally been scheduled for Sept. 25-27. "Following consultation Monday morning among the Greenport Business Owners Alliance (GBOA), Village of Greenport, Southold Town Police Department and festival partners, organizers agreed that moving the festival now is the most thoughtful course given the developing weather
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Rabbi Robert Wolkoff
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Quantum Questions Help New Greenport Rabbi Chart a Course

Beth Young
The new rabbi at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Greenport, Robert Wolkoff, didn't start out life wanting to be a rabbi. He enrolled in Wesleyan University in Connecticut in the midst of the tumultuous year of 1969 intending to become a nuclear physicist. He was fascinated, at the time, with the weirdness of quantum mechanics. Pictured Above: Rabbi Robert Wolkoff preparing for the High Holy Day services earlier this month. He
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Poppy Johnson with "Three Word Song: I Love You."
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Exhibition: Poppy Johnson Paints an Introspection on the Ephemeral

Beth Young
Greenport artist Poppy Johnson has always been a rebel. She grew up in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, where her parents where chemists who liked raucous parties. As a teenager, she wanted to go to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), but her parents made her to to Barnard College instead. She quit after a few months and ran off to Paris, where she studied etching at Atelier 17
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Photos: A Walk on Water Returns to Ditch Plains

Dave Davis
Our Montauk columnist, Dave Davis, was at the A Walk on Water surf therapy event at Ditch Plains in Montauk this weekend, an event that offers athletes with special needs or circumstances (along with their families) a day of riding the waves with surf therapists and shoreside celebrations including yoga, art and music. Find Out More about A Walk on Water in Dave's Season of the Sol piece from 2018.
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Photos: Calls for Unity As The East End Remembers September 11

Beth Young
East Enders gathered together throughout the day on Friday to remember the people killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and to share hopes for a return to the spirit of unity among people who responded to help in the wake of the disaster. Many ceremonies here are centered around monuments erected from twisted pieces of steel saved after the collapse of the World Trade Center that day.
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Remembering The Pelican Disaster in Montauk

East End Beacon
The 45 people who perished on the Fishing Vessel Pelican 75 years ago were remembered in a ceremony at the Montauk Point Lighthouse on Sept. 5, including family members of those lost that day and the launch of a new special edition of Tom Clavin's book recounting the tragedy. The Pelican was a 42-foot fishing boat owned by the popular Captain Eddie Carroll, a Navy veteran and experienced mariner. On
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