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Boys Basketball: Loss to Babylon leaves Tuckers out in cold
If this was going to be Ryan Shuford’s final game in his high school basketball career, he and his Mattituck teammates made sure they were not going to look back and doubt themselves. The Tuckers did...
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See more photos from Mattituck wrestling’s county championship
The Mattituck wrestling team will send eight wrestlers into the New York State Championships in two weeks by virtue of all their victories Sunday night in the Section XI Championships. The Tuckers had...
View ArticlePlayoff brackets released for local basketball teams
Section XI unveiled the boys and girls basketball playoff brackets today. The playoffs will begin Thursday. On the boys side, Greenport is the top seed in Class C. For the girls, Mattituck is the top...
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Girls Winter Track: After long season, Pfennig could use some rest
When the topic is Melanie Pfennig, the Mattituck High School girls winter track coach, Chris Robinson, doesn’t spare the praise. And it’s high praise, indeed. Discussing the season Pfennig has had,...
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Girls Basketball: Despite FT misses, Mattituck tops Mercy in county final
Free throws. The very description implies they are easy. No defenders. No obstructions. Easy, right? Not always. Mattituck’s extraordinary difficulty at sinking free throws nearly cost the Tuckers on...
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See photos from Mattituck’s championship win over Mercy
The Mattituck girls basketball team won its second consecutive Class B county championship Tuesday afternoon by defeating Bishop McGann-Mercy. The Tuckers will play Friday against the Class C champion...
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Q&A with Steve King of East End Sporting Goods
When it opened in 1977, East End Sporting Goods was one of the first stores of its kind in the area. Steve King, then a full-time high school teacher, had a passion and an idea to start something new...
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Girls Basketball: Dwyer doesn’t like to lose, and it shows
Liz Dwyer doesn’t like to lose. More importantly, she loves to win. Case in point: With her high school girls basketball team down by seven points with less than four minutes remaining in the Suffolk...
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Q&A with Jon Divello of Mattituck Environmental Services
Many locals may not know it’s there, but Mattituck Environmental Services is a recycling operation making a big difference on the North Fork. The business transports garbage to its state-of-the-art...
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers lose small schools final to Mount Sinai
The Mattituck Tuckers know their ABCs. It’s just that like their opponents Tuesday night, the Mount Sinai Mustangs, they had never won a Suffolk County Class A-B-C title before. Mount Sinai chalked...
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Girls Basketball: Tuckers claim second straight LI championship
With a Long Island Class B girls basketball championship on the line, Carle Place eighth-grader Erin Leary received a pass from Leah Burden in the right corner and let loose a shot as time expired. It...
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Girls Basketball: Marlborough is all about defense
It was about a half-dozen years ago when someone brought Steve Van Dood’s attention to a fifth-grade girl playing soccer on the playground. It was the way she was playing that was interesting. Van...
View ArticleCops: Mattituck teen crashes trying to evade police
A Mattituck teen was arrested Tuesday after being involved in a motor vehicle crash while attempting to evade police, according to a Southold Town police press release. The driver, Nicholas Alfano, 16,...
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Sports Desk: Same stage, same opponent, same result for Tuckers
Haven’t we been here before? Yes, we have. Well, not literally. Last year this game was at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue. On Monday it was at SUNY/Old Westbury. But it was the same stage of the...
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Girls Basketball: Mattituck gets taste of its own medicine
It was going to take a good high school girls basketball team to end Mattituck’s season. Perhaps a team like Mattituck, only better. That team was Irvington. The Section I champion from Westchester...
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Sports Desk: Irvington’s superiority eases the pain
Not all losses are equal. Some are more or less painful than others. This one could be filed in the “less painful” category for the Mattituck High School girls basketball team. Not that losses don’t...
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Basketball Notebook: Injured Daly keeps busy tracking stats
Mackenzie Daly had to have mixed emotions. The Mattituck High School girls basketball team had reached the Southeast Region Class B final for a second year in a row and Daly was there. The thing was,...
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Neighbors remove sinking boat from James Creek in Mattituck
Bob Patchell once drove his boat, a 39-foot Chris Craft, all over the East Coast. He took it on trips to Newport and Martha’s Vineyard, up the Hudson River and all the way down to Fort Lauderdale via...
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Photos: ‘Female of the Species’ opens Friday at North Fork Community Theatre
From left: Susan Trojanoski Hedges, Kelsey Cheslock and Michelle Corbett rehearse a scene from the comedy “The Female of the Species.” (Photos: Rory MacNish/North Fork Community Theatre) “The Female of...
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One Minute on the North Fork: Browder’s Birds in Mattituck
Spring on the farm means lots of babies. Seven baby lambs had been born at Browder’s Birds farm in Mattituck as of March 10. And the farmers are gearing up for baby chicks and ducklings which are...
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