27East.com: A grandfather-granddaughter fishing team have caught themselves a place in the record books. Late last summer, Captain Wes Winters and his 8-year-old granddaughter Julia Ketner completed the International Game Fish Association’s ultimate accomplishment – a “Royal Slam,” catching...

27East.com: After Hurricane Sandy battered one of two remaining sections of the old Ponquogue Bridge, officials say the 83-year-old section, currently used as a fishing pier, will have to be demolished. Most of the northern...

27East.com: Westhampton Beach Village Trustees are working to finalize renovation plans for the village marina after it was damaged when Hurricane Sandy pummelled the region in late October. At last week’s village work session, board members discussed the needed...

Shelter Island Reporter: Traci Christian, a Long Island representative from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, was at the Smith-Taylor Cabin Thursday to see how the state’s $110,600 is being used. That was amount...

Northport Patch: The Northport Fire Department responded to the aid of 2 duck hunters whose boat capsized in the Long Island Sound off the National Grid Power Plant on Sunday around 11:50 a.m. Water rescue team members launched...

Newsday: The Nassau County district attorney’s office has ruled out criminal charges in the Oyster Bay boating accident last July Fourth that killed 3 children. John Byrne, spokesman for Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice, said a county police investigation...

27East.com: After a group of citizens were forced to give up their fight to resurrect a former sailing club on the shores of Mecox Bay in Water Mill , Southampton Town is planning to take up the initiative...

Sea Tow International is celebrating its 30-year anniversary in 2013. The company, founded by current CEO Joe Frohnhoefer, was launched in Southold, Long Island, in 1983 following changes in U.S. Coast Guard boater-response policy, which shifted the service’s emphasis...

Suffolk Times: Southold Town will soon have a new public waterway access on Peconic Bay, after the state DEC announced this week that it has purchased the former Old Barge restaurant site just off of Route...

Suffolk Times: Don’t dump dredge spoil in eastern Long Island Sound. That was the message some speakers had for the federal Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday at a hearing on finding potential sites to replace 2 existing dredge...