The Patchogue-Medford School District is proposing a $241.3 million 2024/25 budget with a 2.67 percent increase of the tax levy. The proposed budget does not pierce the tax cap. The average tax …

Voters in the South Country School District will decide on May 21 whether to approve a budget of just over $143 million for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, an increase of 1.54 percent from the current …

East Patchogue boy and second-grader (learning at a fourth-grade level) at Verne Critz Elementary School, Kenny Zalenski Jr., 7, is currently hospitalized and in need a of a heart transplant. In …

Medford Boy Scout Liam Langlan recently completed his Eagle Scout project: a Giving Box, now located at Patchogue Medford Youth & Community Services, on Bay Avenue in Patchogue. For his …

Marcus Stroman grew up in Medford and graduated from Pat-Med High School in 2009. Stroman grew up a Yankees fan and his dream of wearing the pinstripes at the baseball cathedral on East 161st Street …

The Patchogue-Medford School District is reconsidering purchasing new univents with heating and cooling capacity districtwide. The proposed $85,375,000, bond will be put up during the regular budget …

The Patchogue-Medford School District held a ribbon cutting to inaugurate its new Academic and Career Explorers (ACES) life skills classroom at Patchogue-Medford High School. The double-classroom …

It’s a Wednesday afternoon at Patchogue-Medford High School and students are in the school auditorium rehearsing the pair of one-act plays they’ll be performing on April 5. The …

The goal of this year’s Patchogue-Medford High School baseball team is to make it back to the playoffs and go further than last season when they were swept by Commack in the Suffolk Class AA …

Plans for building a complex of four warehouse-distribution buildings and trucking terminal in North Bellport advanced after the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board on Feb. 26 approved a site plan and …

Shirley resident and owner of Freshy Fresh Bagels, Will Backhaus, and his son Joshua, 22, a William Floyd High School graduate, will open their second location at the former Spicy’s chicken …

If moviegoers find Sean Penn a convincing New York City EMT in the new film “Asphalt City,” Bellport native Eric Cardamone had a lot to do with it. Cardamone, who is EMS director at Wyckoff …

A smart desk for students, a self-heating-and-cooling bean bag chair, and an app that helps people find the perfect gift. Those are some of the winning ideas in this year’s sixth-annual …

Bellport’s exciting playoff run ended Sunday in a 47-41 loss to Westhampton in the Suffolk AA championship game. But while the Clippers’ season is over, they have plenty of things to …

The William Floyd Colonials girls and boys varsity basketball teams have advanced to the final four in their respective tournaments. After dominating victories, both teams are one step closer to …

For the first time in 23 years, the Bellport High School girls varsity basketball team advanced to the Suffolk County AA championship game. They earned this accomplishment after tough …

Patchogue-Medford graduate (2009) Monika Felice Smith, now living in Los Angeles, Calif., recently worked with Marvel’s Jeremy Renner, Hawkeye, to choreograph the Silk almond milk commercial …

It was a miracle season for William Floyd, whose boys basketball team had an undefeated regular season at 20-0 and whose girls team went 19-1. Each won the Division I regular-season crown. But …

The Bellport Girls Varsity Basketball team clinched a playoff spot with their recent back-to-back wins over Centereach and West Babylon.  “No one can stop us,” said senior power …