Your weekly local newspaper.
Power, water, the blotter, and Saturday in your town. Free in your inbox every Friday.
We'll email you the moment Issue No. 1 hits the porch. Tell a neighbor.
Inside every Friday
The Blotter
Police and fire news from official reports. Attributed, fair, and followed up when cases change.
Town Hall
What Brookhaven and your village board are voting on this week, in plain English.
Schools
Board meetings, budgets and closings from Three Village to Shoreham-Wading River.
Power & Water
PSEG outages, Water Authority main breaks and road closures, hamlet by hamlet.
This Weekend
Fairs, concerts, library programs and markets. Every listing checked twice before it runs.
Openings & Closings
Who's moving in on 25A, and who's saying goodbye, before the sign goes up.
Lost & Found Pets
Every week, a little help bringing them home.
The Recipe Box
A recipe from a North Shore kitchen every week, made with what's in season at the farm stands.
The Almanac
Tides at Port Jeff and Mount Sinai Harbor, sunrise and sunset, and beach status.
The paper your town used to have.
Local first
The stories the big outlets don't have time for. If it happened on your street, it belongs here.
Checked twice
Every fact traces back to an official source, and every event is rechecked before Friday. No rumors.
Fair to everyone
We attribute what we report, protect people's privacy, and print our corrections where you can see them.
Our coverage
Got a tip?
Something happening in town that nobody's covering? Tell us. We confirm every tip before anything runs.
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Advertise in North Country
Reach the neighbors who live, shop and eat between Stony Brook and Wading River. North Country runs ads from local businesses only, in our ten ZIP codes, and every ad is clearly labeled.
Founding advertisers get first pick of placements and launch-week visibility. Spots are limited.
Ask about founding spots- Front page bannerTop of the website, right under the signup.
- Neighborhood boxesTwo side-by-side spots inside the paper.
- Friday newsletterOne local sponsor per issue, in every inbox.
- This Weekend sponsorYour name on the events roundup readers save.
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