The body of Dario Cholua Rojas, who disappeared off North Haven after going out fishing after dark on October 19, has been identified.
The body of Dario Cholua Rojas, who disappeared off North Haven after going out fishing after dark on October 19, has been identified.
Stephen J. Kotz on Nov 23, 2022
The family of Dario Cholula Rojas, 31, the Queens man who disappeared off Tyndal Point in North Haven on October 19 after going out at night in a kayak to... more
Nicholas Kayel, 43, of Riverhead was arrested last month and charged with a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident in which there was injury after Southampton Town Police said he fled the scene after his pickup truck struck the artist April Gornik, 69, of North Haven as she walked along Ferry Road with her husband, Eric Fischl, on October 25. Gornik suffered a broken elbow and other injuries after being struck. The force of the collision broke the passenger side-view mirror off the truck. Working with a description of Kayel’s 2016 Toyota Tundra, detectives were able to ...
14 Dec 2022 by Staff Writer
The Sag Harbor Fire Department, which has been raising money to buy a state-of-the-art fireboat, has found a significant portion of that funding by re-purposing a $250,000 state grant originally intended to be used for the renovation and expansion of the Sag Harbor Firehouse. Trustee Tom Gardella, who is a former chief and remains an active member in the department, estimated that a fireboat will cost approximately $650,000. With the grant, a private pledge of $100,000 and $80,000 raised with the Sag Harbor Partnership at a summertime community party, a total of $430,000 has been raised. Gardella has said in ...
29 Nov 2022 by Stephen J. Kotz
The Shelter Island Town Police Department said that the body of a man who had apparently drowned had been found on the beach at Smith Cove on the south side of the Mashomack Preserve in Smith Cove on November 8. Police said the body, which has yet to be identified, was removed by the Suffolk County medical examiner’s office. Police would not speculate as to whether the body was that of Dario Cholula Rojas, the 31-year-old Queens man who disappeared on the night of October 19 when he went fishing in a kayak off North Haven. But members of Cholula ...
10 Nov 2022 by Staff Writer
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Stephen J. Kotz on Nov 23, 2022