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2015 People of the Year: Kait’s Angels
It’s been nearly a year since Molly Waitz helped establish a non-profit group in memory of her friend, who died at the age of 20. The organization is called Kait’s Angels in memory of Kaitlyn Doorhy,...
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers top Monarchs in clash of league leaders
The Mattituck High School girls basketball team claimed Suffolk County League VII supremacy Thursday night. In a battle of teams with unbeaten league records, the Tuckers sprinted off to a 17-point...
View ArticleVideo: The inspiring story of Mattituck graduate Jovan Booker
As a senior on the 2011 Mattituck High School basketball team, Jovan Booker was a part of history when the Tuckers won the Class B Long Island Championship. It was a storybook season, one the players...
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Girls Basketball: Port Jefferson puts an ‘L’ on Mattituck’s record
The perfect record is no more. Nine games into its high school girls basketball season, Mattituck has finally tasted defeat. Plucky Port Jefferson refused to fold despite trailing for most of Monday’s...
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Girls Basketball: Mattituck hits Mercy like a hurricane
It was sudden, overpowering and, like a force of nature, devastating. Mattituck overwhelmed Bishop McGann-Mercy, scoring the first 15 points of the high school girls basketball game and busting out to...
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Large hops farm planned for Route 48 in Mattituck
A Mattituck farm owned by a famous cheese-making family, which became a site for the illegal dumping of yard waste, is now being reincarnated as a hops farm. The 19.7-acre site on the north side of...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Tuckers turn in biggest win of their season
On a bitterly cold night in which most people might have burned a barn to keep warm, they most appropriately played one memorable barn burner at Babylon High School. Mattituck won the most important...
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers make a statement with 21-point victory
When the top two high school girls basketball teams in Suffolk County League VII played on Wednesday, a close game was anticipated. Such a game never materialized. League-leading Mattituck used its...
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Wrestling: Mattituck’s North Fork Invitational postponed
The 19th annual North Fork Invitational wrestling tournament at Mattituck High School has been postponed until Jan. 31 because on an impending snowstorm this weekend. The tournament was originally...
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Girls Basketball: In a rarity, Tuckers outclass Wildcats
Wins by the Mattituck High School girls basketball team over Shoreham-Wading River had been rare, if not non-existent, in the 21st century. That is understandable, to a degree, since Class A Shoreham...
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Schools prepare for tight budgets as tax cap looks to hold levy at 0.12%
Local superintendents preparing next year’s school spending plans are describing the process as daunting because they’re bound to nearly zero percent tax levy growth for 2016-17. New York State...
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Boys Basketball: Tuckers play Wyandanch even — for three quarters anyway
The Mattituck Tuckers played like warriors. Their problem was they played against actual Warriors. For three quarters on Friday night the Tuckers played the first-place Wyandanch Warriors even. It was...
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Track and Field: Mattituck makes its first entrance into county meet
It’s been a season of firsts for Mattituck. On Sunday, the Tuckers’ winter track and field teams made history by competing for the first time at the small school county championships. For a first-year...
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Girls Basketball: DiGregorio has a lot to smile about
Jane DiGregorio is a bubbly, happy person. It shows with her ever-present smile — even while playing in a basketball game. DiGregorio can be seen wearing a grin on her face during the heat of a game....
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Girls Basketball: A rocky ending, but a win’s a win for Tuckers
It wasn’t until after a bumpy ending that the Mattituck Tuckers could breathe a collective sigh of relief. Sure, they had won, but their Suffolk County League VII girls basketball game in Center...
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Boys Winter Track: Mattituck high jumper clears 6 feet 6 inches
Standing in the dry air in the Suffolk County Community College arena, Darius Brew began his approach. This wasn’t just any high jump for the Mattituck High School senior, so some adjustment was...
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Police investigate laser-pointing incident involving United Airlines flight...
New York State Police and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating a laser-pointing incident involving a commercial airline flying over Mattituck late Monday night, state police said....
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Added layer of EMS services comes to part of the North Fork
“We’re not here to take over. We’re not here to replace anybody. We’re simply here to try to help.” Those are the words of Scott Falley, a Stony Brook University Hospital paramedic who spends his...
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Driver killed after pickup truck struck by LIRR train in Mattituck
A westbound Long Island Railroad train struck a pickup truck at about 1:08 p.m. Tuesday in Mattituck at Elijah’s Lane and the driver of the vehicle was killed, according to the Metropolitan...
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Baseball Preview: It’s basic training for state champs
The Mattituck High School baseball team was conducting rundown drills during practice last week and coach Steve DeCaro wasn’t happy. He didn’t like what he was seeing and he let his players know it in...
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