Man Missing After Sailboat Found Adrift

Suffolk County police investigating, treating incident as potential suicide.

Suffolk County police are searching for a missing Long Beach man after his unmanned sailboat was discovered drifting off the Huntington coast Thursday night. Police are investigating the case as a suicide, according to a police spokesperson. Police responded to the boat at 7:56 p.m. after reports came in of the man's 27-foot sailboat drifting off the Caumsett Historical State Park shoreline. The man, whose name was not released, had left from Huntington Harbor alone at 1:40 p.m. that day. The Coast Guard and Marine Bureau are searching the area for a body, but as of 2 p.m. Friday they have found no trace of the man. According to several media reports, blood was found on the unmanned boat, but police could not confirm. Coneys Marine manager…

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Historic Tree Honored in Lloyd Harbor

An Asian sycamore has stood for decades.

Sally Campbell seemed a little shy as she sat in the front row of the Lloyd Harbor Board of Trustees meeting Monday evening. She was representing a friend who couldn't make the meeting. In fact, this friend will probably never attend a meeting. Campbell was there on behalf of the giant Asian sycamore tree that has grown in her backyard for over 60 years as it was honored by the trustees as well as Dorothea Cappadona, the chair of the Lloyd Harbor Conservation Board. "We're just delighted people in the village recognize the importance of trees," Cappadona said to the board before the simple presentation began. Cappadona and Lloyd Harbor Mayor Leland Hairr presented Campbell with a plaque and called her the "steward of the tree." A photo and…

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Bouchard Receives All-County Honor, Prepares for Bryant U.

CSH attackman Brendan Bouchard was recently one of four Seahawks to gain All-County Honors for the 2010 lacrosse season.

Four years ago, as a Cold Spring Harbor eighth grader, Brendan Bouchard sat in the stands of the 2006 New York State Class "C" Championship game at Stony Brook University with his father and watched his future high school beat Christian Brothers Academy.  As he watched guys like Adam Ghitelman, Chris Schuville and Corey Winkoff carry Seahawks to their first-ever state championship, he knew one day, he wanted to be a part of something like that.   "Sitting at that game and watching guys like Ghitelman and all the others, really put it in perspective of what lacrosse can do," he said. "It was great to just be around that all the time and watch those guys play." And now, as a senior attack man he was just named All-County for his success on …

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Lloyd Harbor Conservation Board Examines Noise Pollution

After seeing limits on outdoor lights passed, the board is hoping to quiet lawn mowers and leaf blowers.

Last month, the Lloyd Harbor Board of Trustees approved new legislation limiting light pollution from outdoor fixtures. It was a victory the Lloyd Harbor Conservation Board say they had been waiting for and working on for years. Now, fresh from success, they have their sights on a new proposal: limits on noise pollution. In a small but jubilant meeting Monday night, the conservation board celebrated and discussed their plans to propose new restrictions on lawnmowers and yard workers to the town Board of Trustees and how to best raise support for the measure. "For me, it's a kind of environmental pollution," said board member Maria Teresa Quirk. The four board members at the meeting agreed that reducing the sounds from yard working …

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Seahawks Lose to Rival Indians

Cold Spring Harbor lost 7-5 to Manhasset yesterday in the County Championship

Brendan Bouchard sat on the field well after the final horn had sounded. His final game as a Cold Spring Harbor Seahawk was in the books.  A 7-5 loss to rival Manhasset was the outcome.  The Indians beat the Seahawks yesterday at Hofstra's Shuart Stadium to take home the Class "C" Championship and move on to the Long Island Championship.  Thanks in large part the duo of Chris Cook and Drew Belinksy, the Indians were able to stave off numerous Seahawk comebacks. With the score 2-1 at halftime, the Seahawks had done pretty much exactly what their game plan had called for.  Slow down the pace of the game, play good team defense, and take smart shots on offense.  The Achilles heel for the Seahawks were turnovers.  Cold Spring Harbor committed …

Dinghy-Dock Decision to Come At Next Hearing

The Lloyd Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals has not reached decision on John DeNatale's proposed dock.

Frustrated Lloyd Harbor resident John DeNatale is stuck between a dock and a hard place. He appeared before the Lloyd Harbor Board of Zoning Appeals at its May meeting to build a longer than allowed dock off his property. He said he wants to use the dock to moor a dinghy, which he would use to get out to his 25-foot boat anchored in the harbor. DeNatale and Charles Bowman, president of Land Use Ecological Services, told the board that they could not comply with village code on the length of the dock because it would then violate New York State Department of Environmental Conservation edicts on the depth of water near docks. In 1992, the village created two Coastal Overlay Zoning Districts following an increase in waterfront development. …

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Seahawks Prepare to Face the Indians

Cold Spring Harbor must find a way to slow down the offense of Manhasett, who are coming off a 19-3 first round victory over Seaford.

If you are expecting a high scoring shootout in Wednesday's Nassau County Class "C" Championship, you will be in for a rude awakening.  That is if Dennis Bonn's Cold Spring Harbor Seahawks have anything to say about it. Bonn's Seahawks (15-1), who won their first playoff game 7-4 over Friends Academy, will take on the Indians of Manhasett High School Wednesday with a chance to head to the Long Island Championship.  The two teams faced off in early May with the Indians taking the contest 7-2 behind two goals a piece from Matt Tompkins and Pat Moroney as well as a 14 save performance from junior goalie Frank Morelli.   "He's a very good goalie," senior Christian Kennedy said about Morelli, who took over as the starting goalie April 24 after …

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Cold Spring Harbor Boys Lax Faces Friends Academy

The Seahawks travel to Hofstra tonight at 6 p.m.

With a trip to the conference championship on the line, number two-seeded Cold Spring Harbor (14-1, 8-1 conference IV, class C) will take on number-three seeded Friends Academy (13-3, 6-2) today at 6 p.m. at Hofstra University's Shuart Stadium. Friends Academy defeated sixth seeded Floral Park 10-3 a week ago in the conference quarterfinals. The  faced off May 14 in the season finale for both teams with the Seahawks beating the Quakers 10-9 in overtime.  Senior Brendan Bouchard scored the winning goal for the Seahawks 14 seconds into overtime to give Cold Spring Harbor the win. "Friends Academy is an all around great team," said Bouchard, the Bryant University-bound attack man.  "They don't make mistakes, they hustle on every play." Top …

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Looking Closer at Death of Three on Boat

The New York Times has looked closer at the deaths of three on Huntington Harbor houseboat in March.

The New York Times has looked more closely at the deaths of three that took place in a houseboat docked in Huntington Harbor on March 23. The paper reports that Suffolk County Police Department cutbacks at the behest of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy may have played a role in the deaths. The houseboat was moored a third of a mile from the dock where the 25-foot police rescue boat was tied up. "Lacking the police boat's medical equipment, rescue workers said, they were hampered in their efforts to revive the victims. Two patrol officers paddled out from shore in a dinghy and pumped the victims' chests until they could be carried to shore, one by one," the story reads. Ironically, earlier on the day of the houseboat deaths,  Suffolk …

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