East End Beacon

12/23/2025

Two of the five offshore wind farms whose leases were paused by the Trump administration on Monday are designed to power Long Island’s electric grid, and wind farm companies here have begun to respond to the news.

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12/23/2025

Two of the five offshore wind farms whose leases were paused by the Trump administration on Monday are designed to power Long Island’s electric grid, and wind farm companies here have begun to respond to the news:

Two of the five offshore wind farms whose leases were paused by the Trump administration on Monday are designed to power Long Island's electric grid, and wind farm companies here have begun to respond to the news. The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday it was "pausing" the leases for 90 day...

12/23/2025

Morning Bulletin: Long Island Wind Farms React to Suspension, Changes To Accessory Dwelling Unit in the North Fork’s Sights in the New Year, New Art Show Celebrates Motion, Holiday Revels:

Changes To Accessory Dwelling Unit in the North Fork's Sights in the New Year, New Art Show Celebrates Motion, Holiday Revels Good Morning! • It's likely snowing as you're reading this, but the odds of it sticking around until Christmas are unlikely. Rain will enter the picture around 9 a.m., and ...

12/22/2025

As the need for attainable housing on the North Fork continues to grow, Greenport Village will be drafting code changes in the new year to allow accessory dwelling units in existing accessory buildings without the need for review by the village’s land use boards:

As the need for attainable housing on the North Fork continues to grow, Greenport Village will be drafting code changes in the new year to allow accessory dwelling units in existing accessory buildings without the need for review by the village's land use boards. Pictured Above: First Street, Greenp...

12/22/2025

Morning Bulletin: Hochul’s Flurry of Vetoes and Bill Signings, Remembering Bloom, Bringing the Forest into the Classroom:

Hochul's Flurry of Vetoes and Bill Signings, Remembering Bloom, Bringing the Forest into the Classroom Good Morning! • We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 38 degrees but wind chill values between 15 and 25, with a northwest wind 7 to 10 miles per hour. We're expecting i...

12/21/2025

Lifelong Southold resident Eleanor Lingo was a powerful voice for social justice on the North Fork, and one of her most well-known acts was a yearly Christmas ritual of laying a wreath on the Southold grave that merely reads: “Bloom. Negro Woman. Died 1810.”

Eleanor Lingo isn’t here to place a wreath on Bloom’s grave this year — she died at the age of 99 in June. But her friends weren’t about to let Bloom go through a year without recognition:

Lifelong Southold resident Eleanor Lingo was a powerful voice for social justice on the North Fork, and one of her most well-known acts was a yearly Christmas ritual of laying a wreath on the Southold grave that merely reads: "Bloom. Negro Woman. Died 1810." Eleanor Lingo isn't here to place a wreat...

12/20/2025

In a flurry of end-of-the-year bill signings Friday, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a bill banning the use of horseshoe crabs for bait and biomedical research, but has vetoed a bill that would have reinstated state recognition for the Montaukett Indian Tribe:

In a flurry of end-of-the-year bill signings Friday, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a bill banning the use of horseshoe crabs for bait and biomedical research, but has vetoed a bill that would have reinstated state recognition for the Montaukett Indian Tribe. Pictured Above: Montauk...

12/19/2025

Greenport’s Holiday Stroll is just getting warmed up!

Tonight through 8 pm throughout downtown!

Details: greenportholidaystroll.com

12/19/2025

Down at the Peconic Community School in Cutchogue, the kids were busy tromping around outdoors exploring the snow-filled world this week, and when they came indoors, the forest followed them.

Their schoolwide interdisciplinary project on the life of the forests, in the works all fall, culminated this week in an transformation of the school into an immersive forest world:

Down at the Peconic Community School in Cutchogue, the kids were busy tromping around outdoors exploring the snow-filled world this week, and when they came indoors, the forest followed them. Pictured Above: Plum Kilcer and Adelaide LeFort showed off the timeline of the development of the forest at....

12/19/2025

Morning Bulletin: Rain to Wind, ICE Out Hampton Bays, Holiday Stroll in Greenport, Weekend Music

Rain to Wind, ICE Out Hampton Bays, Holiday Stroll in Greenport, Weekend Music Good Morning! • We're expecting rain and possibly a thunderstorm during the day today, with between a half and three quarters of an inch of rainfall. The temperature will rise to near 56 by 10 a.m., then fall to around ...

12/18/2025

Morning Bulletin: Southold Democratic Chair Seeks to Unseat County Chief, A Chorus Supporting CPF in Greenport, ICE Out Hampton Bays, Opera Weekend:

Southold Democratic Chair Seeks to Unseat County Chief, A Chorus Supporting CPF in Greenport, ICE Out Hampton Bays, Opera Weekend Good Morning! • We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 53 degrees and a calm wind becoming south 5 to 9 miles per hour in the morning. We're ex...

12/17/2025

Southold Democratic Party Chair Kathryn Casey-Quigley has launched a challenge to longtime Suffolk County Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer, with a promise to bring her grassroots organizing skills to bear on a role that she says has become stagnant in recent years:

Southold Democratic Party Chair Kathryn Casey-Quigley has launched a challenge to longtime Suffolk County Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer, with a promise to bring her grassroots organizing skills to bear on a role that she says has become stagnant in recent years. Mr. Schaffer, who also serves as....