Shelter Island Heights

Here are more than 20 ways to get started this holiday weekend.

The couple work and craft together.

If you're looking for a getaway this holiday weekend, a staycation is the perfect escape.

Grab a towel and some sunblock, and follow the sound of the waves. 

Scenes from a Suffolk Division II girls lacrosse semifinal playoff game between Port Jefferson and host Mattituck/Greenport/Southold on Monday.

They've got all you need to go fishing — bait, tackle — and they'll clean your catch, too.

Since 2016, ultra-marathoner Eva Casale has run a series of marathons to benefit local VFWs and other military service organizations, as well as veterans and their families.

Join a mystery book club or learn about the archaeological process and more.

Where you can drive balls by the bucket.

The Greenport landmark will get $4 million in upgrades, the new owner said in court filings. 

The Historic Business Preservation Registry was created to honor and promote shops that are at least 50 years old and have made significant contributions to their communities.

Bookstores are neighborhood mainstays.

A Suffolk judge dismissed those charges against an alleged drug dealer in connection with fatal overdoses on the East End.

Vinski hurls shutout as Killer Bees field varsity baseball team for first time in 43 years.

See the scenes from Tuesday's Suffolk baseball matchup.

After several years of negotiations, the home is set to be built on a 0.1-acre parcel on Johnson Court, said the CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Suffolk.

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"This was a big morale booster after a couple of years that have been challenging," said the team's coach Wendy Way.

"There are circumstances where we need specifically a female officer to be involved in, and she enables us to do a better job at delivering a better service to our community," said Chief James Read.

The former Woolworth mansion, built in 1915, had been used in Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" video and HBO dramas "Boardwalk Empire and "Mildred Pierce."

Stephen Kiely, a Mattituck lawyer who previously served as an assistant town attorney in Southold, has been hired as the new Shelter Island Town attorney.

Officials in Oyster Bay, Smithtown, Islip, East Hampton and Shelter Island towns have also decided to prohibit sales and consumption sites, creating bans in nearly half of Long Island's 13 towns.

The house, in Dering Harbor overlooking Peconic Bay, is on the site where a 350-room hotel burned down in 1910.

In Nassau County, where registered Democrats heavily outnumber registered Republicans, GOP candidates appeared to win the top jobs in every town and city except Long Beach.

Edmund Smyth handily defeated his two challengers in a closely watched race for supervisor. Jorge Guadron was poised to become the first Hispanic councilman in Islip Town.

If you're looking for a local getaway, explore the East End or Shelter Island this season. 

The only one of the five East End towns where no high-density affordable housing developments have been built is working on two new projects to address the need, but there is opposition from those who say "people aren't entitled to live where they want to live." 

The tax on real estate sales would be used to fund affordable housing programs in the five East End towns.

From Splish Splash to Shelter Island, Long Island is a cool place if you want to delve into a Polar Plunge.