Laura Ahearn, the executive director of the nonprofit Crime Victims Center, has won the Democratic primary and will face off in November against Assemblyman Anthony Paulumbo for the New York Senate seat being vacated by Kenneth P. LaValle.
Candidate Nancy Goroff speaks during a Congressional Forum of Democratic Candidates for the First Congressional District in February. PRESS FILE
Nancy Goroff. MICHAEL HELLER
Laura Ahearn, the executive director of the nonprofit Crime Victims Center, has won the Democratic primary and will face off in November against Assemblyman Anthony Paulumbo for the New York Senate seat being vacated by Kenneth P. LaValle.
Candidate Nancy Goroff speaks during a Congressional Forum of Democratic Candidates for the First Congressional District in February. PRESS FILE
Stephen J. Kotz on Jul 9, 2020
By Stephen J. Kotz Nancy Goroff, the chairwoman of the chemistry department at Stony Brook University, has declared victory in the Democratic primary for the right to face off against... more
Suffolk County Police on Monday arrested a Riverside man they said stabbed his girlfriend to death at a Riverside home. According to a release sent out Tuesday morning, Southampton Town Police initially responded to a call at 48 Ludlam Avenue at 11:07 p.m. after an occupant of the home called police to report the stabbing. Police said Bayron Fajardo-Gonzalez stabbed his girlfriend, Tania Fox, 45. Ms. Fox was taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, where she was pronounced dead. Mr. Fajardo-Gonzalez, 33, was charged with second degree murder and was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at Southampton Town ... by Staff Writer
It was 1995, I think. I was hired by this newspaper to chronicle Sagaponack. The editor at the time, Peter Boody, and I agreed that, since not much happened in the tiny hamlet, it would be interesting if I wrote about life on the farm. “We don’t really have any agricultural columns,” he said. And, by means of encouragement, added, “You’re not a reporter.” I took his assignment seriously, and it wasn’t hard. Sagaponack was a dull, barely developed expanse best suited for potatoes. “Write what you know,” echoed the words of a college professor; all I came to know ... by Marilee Foster
WESTHAMPTON BEACH — A Main Street shopkeeper contacted Westhampton Beach Village Police on July 28, reporting that somebody stole his 2008 Honda Odyssey. It had been parked in the rear parking lot behind a nail salon, with the keys left inside, at 10 a.m. A short while later, police found the car parked on Beach Lane, unoccupied. SAG HARBOR — A verbal altercation turned physical on a yacht docked off West Water Street in Sag Harbor, prompting one employee to contact Village Police on July 28. According to the police report, a woman got into an altercation with a new ... by Staff Writer
Eddy Sangurimamorocho, 25, of Hampton Bays, was arrested by Southampton Town Police and charged with DWI on August 1 at about 5:30 a.m. on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays. Police said that as an officer watched, Mr. Sangurimamorocho committed several traffic infractions, culminating with sideswiping a parked car. A 54-year-old East Hampton resident, was charged with Driving While Ability Impaired by the Consumption of Alcohol, an infraction, after East Hampton Village Police said on July 25, around 11:55 p.m., she drove her 2019 Mercedes across the roadway and onto the shoulder while driving northbound on Stephen Hands Path. She was ... by Staff Writer
By Shari Adler Having been born and bred in Massachusetts, I must say that all topics and newsworthy stories related to the Kennedys had always been folklore in my childhood home. The one story that stood out in my mind, besides iterations of both gossip and tragedy, was the fact that the dashing 38-year-old John F. Kennedy, as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Profiles in Courage,” while recuperating from spinal surgery in 1954. Even as a little girl, as soon as I was old enough to become aware of this book, I was so impressed ... 10 Aug 2020 by Shari Adler
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Stephen J. Kotz on Jul 9, 2020