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Big News on North Fork Hotels, Greenport Pushing Southold on CPF, Be Like Oysters
Beth Young
December 14, 2025
On the Forks
Riverhead Celebrates Start of Town Square Construction
The Riverhead Town ‘groundbreaking’ ceremony to kick off the Town Square construction project was the beginning of demolition of a building to be replaced by a hotel adjacent to the Town Square.
As the sounds of the Christmas carol “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” wafted through the chilly air of downtown Riverhead Friday afternoon, workers from J. Petrocelli Contracting began demolishing a downtown building to make way for a Hilton Tapestry Collection hotel at the edge of the new Riverhead Town Square.
North Fork Hotel Updates
 The Enclaves Asks Southold For More Time as it Pursues Loan Backed by USDAThe Enclaves Hotel project in Southold has found a new backer, after losing $25 million in funding from Dime Bank earlier this year. The hotel developers are now working with South Dakota-based Pathward, National Association, a national bank that provides loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Business & Industry loan program for rural areas |  Hotel Moraine Wins Lawsuit Over Southold ZBA Expansion DenialA New York State Supreme Court Justice has sided with a Greenport hotel that had been denied an application for a 14-room expansion by the Southold Town Zoning Board of Appeals. |
North Fork
Greenport Continues to Push Southold on CPF Funding
Fifth Street Beach in Greenport, one of the areas where Greenport Village believes Southold Town can use CPF money for water quality projects.
Over the past several months, Greenport Village Trustee Lily Dougherty-Johnson and Southold Town Councilwoman Anne Smith have been working together to hash out where the village and the town can find common ground on priorities for use of Community Preservation Funds, after several contentious meetings over the course of the past year in which each side dug in its heels.
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 | Climate Local NowLet’s All Be More Like Oystersby Kate Rossi-Snook It can be hard to get excited about something that just looks like rocks. I often say this when presenting educational curricula or leading a Stewardship Session. But once you learn more about our native oyster, I promise you will have a new appreciation for this incredibly well-adapted animal. |
Column: From Plum Gut
Steal This Story, Please!
Amy Goodman
by Beth Young
I have to admit, over the course of my first long-term relationship, I eventually tired of the piles of copies of “The Nation” blocking egress from our studio apartment, of waking in the morning to hear my partner carrying on about atrocities committed with U.S. weapons in East Timor, the unjust jailing of Native American activist Leonard Peltier and the trade deals that were selling out the American worker.
It wasn’t that I didn’t care, it was that I didn’t feel there was anything I could do about this mountain of intractable situations, and I wasn’t about to spend my life holed up in a corner, tuning the radio dial to try to catch Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now and cursing the society beyond our apartment windows.
But Democracy Now was never meant to inspire navel-gazing. The show is now aired on 1,500 independent radio and television stations around the country, and Ms. Goodman has become a legend in the art of bearing witness to what so many of us would rather not see.
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The Business Accelerator
Greenport Holiday Stroll Returns
The Second Annual Greenport Holiday Stroll & Harbor Front Night Market, an evening celebrating community, creativity, and local culture in the heart of Greenport Village, will be held this coming Friday, Dec. 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. throughout downtown Greenport.
UPCOMING EVENTS
 Hanukkah Starts Tonight! Hanukkah parties abound tonight to mark the first night of the Festival of Lights, and this Wednesday you can join in the latke cookoff at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor. |  Friday, Dec. 19 & Sunday, Dec. 21 Opera Night Holiday Weekend at Borghese Vineyard The Rites of Spring Music Festival holds two holiday opera concerts this coming weekend. |  Sunday, Dec. 21 Carols & Cookies at the Jamesport Meeting House A hallmark of the holiday season, this year’s Jamesport Meeting House Chorus concert features a fabulous lineup of songs to usher in the first day of winter, with the outstanding accompanist Jeff Wentz. |
Hot Off the Press
Our December print edition is now on newsstands throughout the East End
Words
“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.”
See you next Sunday,
Beth
