Rex Heuermann finally confessed.

The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer pleaded guilty Wednesday in a packed Riverhead courtroom to seven murders — and admitted to an eighth killing he hasn’t even been charged with.

The 62-year-old Massapequa Park man pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of seven women, including the so-called Gilgo Four, whose remains were discovered along Ocean Parkway in 2010 and 2011.

As part of the ple...

The Greenport School District proposed a $26 million budget that cuts nearly two dozen positions and more than doubles the state tax cap as officials try to rein in years of reserve spending.

The $25,995,000 spending plan for the 2026-27 school year, presented Tuesday, March 31, includes a 7.91% tax levy increase, far above the district’s 3.04% cap. For homeowners, that would mean about $43 more per month.

The proposal comes as district officials move away from a pattern of using one-time rese...

When Mattituck High School seniors Claire McKenzie and Grace Quinn think of their favorite memories with Kelly Pickering, they both think of the same time: losing in the county finals.

The school’s varsity girls’ volleyball team lost to Bayport-Blue Point in the Suffolk County Class B final last November, ending the season, and for Claire and Grace, ending their volleyball careers with Mattituck.

“We were sitting in the back of the bus, and usually the coach sits up front, but she went back to...

Orient native Franklin Mastrangelo has signed a multi-album deal with Mercury Records and will move to Nashville on Jan. 15 to pursue his music career full time, The Suffolk Times has learned.

In his first interview since landing the deal, the Greenport High School graduate — who will be releasing music under the name Frank Mastra — said Tuesday, Jan. 6, that he signed with the label on Nov. 15, 2025, just three days before his 21st birthday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Universal Mus...

Jeff Strong gets calls regularly asking him to sell his Mattituck marina for development. He declines. For the past six years, he and his team have been trying to get approval for a storage building to expand their indoor capacity at Strong’s Marine — just to keep operating as a working waterfront.

Now, a new Suffolk County law might ease that pressure.

County Executive Ed Romaine signed the “working waterfront” bill at Greenport’s railroad dock Sept. 29, establishing protections for the area’...

Throughout their campaign for City Council last fall, Brendan Finn, Chris Fiumara and Mike Reinhart made it clear to Long Beach residents that they were going to work to prevent taxes from increasing.

That turns out to be easier said than done.

Long Beach’s 219-page proposed budget for fiscal year 2024-25, which was released on the city’s website late last month and presented at Tuesday night’s council meeting by Comptroller Inna Reznik and City Manager Dan Creighton, includes a homestead tax...