News by Stefan Mychajliw

News by Stefan Mychajliw on South Shore Press


Dec 30, 2024

From the Newsroom: Clean Eating, No Diet Pop, and Cutting Back Coffee in 2025

The simple solution is eating better, drinking better, exercising more, and doing my part to join the Make America Healthy Again Movement.

Dec 30, 2024

Cops Investigating Fatal Car Crash

Detectives are asking anyone with information on the incident to contact the Fifth Squad at 631-854-8552.

Dec 22, 2024

From the Newsroom: Feeling Grateful

As a child, you have no clue about the struggle and sacrifice mothers make for their children. Now that I’m a father, I can’t imagine the stress and anxiety she experienced knowing she could never, ever “Keep up With the Joneses” and have a boatload of gifts under the tree for her excited children. Our childhood home was not a syrupy Hallmark or Lifetime movie. It was what extreme poverty felt and looked like.

Dec 16, 2024

From the Newsroom: Choose Joy

“Perhaps you sense that we prepare for and celebrate Christmas doing the opposite of what brings peace and joy to the world. Maybe we embrace too much of the secular culture and not enough of the Gospel culture. Are we able to listen to God in the midst of all this?”

Dec 10, 2024

From the Newsroom: Ave Maria, Florida

If you asked most folks across the South Shore if they’ve ever heard of Thomas Stephen Monaghan, many would simply shrug their shoulders.

Dec 10, 2024

National Honors for Two SCPD Officers

Suffolk County Police Detective Edwin Hugh and Police Officer Thomas Joy were among the recipients honored during the Seventh Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Community Policing ceremony in Washington D.C.

Dec 10, 2024

WFSD Elementary School Student-Musicians Selected for Prestigious Festival

Eighteen fourth-grade student-musicians from the William Floyd School District were selected to be a part of the 16th Annual Suffolk County Music Educators Association (SCMEA) PEAK (Parents, Educators And Kids) Festival

Nov 26, 2024

Mather Hospital dedicates New Outpatient Behavioral Health Building

Northwell's Mather Hospital formally dedicated its recently acquired Outpatient Behavioral Health Services building that allows the hospital to transform how it provides mental health services, expanding programs and introducing a new Rapid Access Center. The building, located across the street from the hospital at 100 Highlands Blvd., was purchased with public and private funding totaling $9.2 million including a grant from the NYS Department of Health.

Nov 26, 2024

Bellport Middle School Names New Assistant Principal

The South Country School District Board of Education has appointed Dr. Anthony Aiello as Bellport Middle School's new assistant principal, effective Dec. 16.

Nov 24, 2024

From the Newsroom: Giving Thanks

"Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, and I know the sour," is a famous line from the 2001 movie starring Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Cameron Diaz, and Jason Lee.

Nov 18, 2024

From the Newsroom: DOGE to Destroy the Bloated Bureaucracy

Prior to joining the South Shore Press, it was a privilege and honor to work as Mr. Ramaswamy's presidential campaign spokesman and Deputy Communications Director.

Nov 13, 2024

Kinexion Presents Five Women Empowerment Grants

The Kinexion Network includes Independent Group Home Living Program (IGHL), The New Interdisciplinary School, The Center for Developmental Disabilities, Angela's House, Head Injury Association, Maryhaven, and East End Disability Associates.

Nov 13, 2024

Mastic Beach Man Pleads Guilty for Execution Style Murder

On May 20th, 2023, at approximately 2:00 a.m., police said Joseph Scalafani ambushed Smith and his ex-girlfriend as they exited a bar in Mastic Beach. Joseph Scalafani fired numerous shots at Smith, striking him multiple times in the back and torso.

Nov 11, 2024

Trump Derangement Syndrome is a Legitimate Mental Illness

As the husband of a social worker, those words are not written in a mocking tone, shared lightly, or meant to belittle those who lost their minds following the election of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States.

Nov 6, 2024

Some Thoughts From the Newsroom as Election Day 2024 is in the History Books

Please try as best as possible to thank a veteran every single day of the year, not just November 11th of every year.

Nov 4, 2024

Mastic Beach Gang Member Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney announced that David Trent, 19, of Mastic Beach, was sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree, and other related charges, for shooting and killing Jorge Mauricio Sevilla Barrera and injuring two others outside of the Minx Nightclub in Farmingville, as well as the armed robbery of a Lyft driver that occurred in Wading River.

Nov 4, 2024

Six-Year-Old Girl Killed in Car Crash

Amaia Rivera was ejected from the vehicle during the crash and was transported to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip in critical condition. Tragically the girl died from the result of injuries from the car crash.

Nov 4, 2024

Town of Brookhaven Bulldozes "Zombie Home" in Mastic Beach

The property, now cleared, will be preserved by the Town as open space, helping to restore and protect the sensitive marshland area for the benefit of the community and environment.

Oct 29, 2024

Kamala Harris Broke America. Donald Trump Will Fix It.

Bank your vote. Do not wait to cast your ballot. Head to your early polling place now to vote for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.

Oct 24, 2024

Eastport-South Manor Jr.-Sr. High School inducts 81

Officers Camdyn Glover and Camryn Warsaw Co-Presidents), Gianna Fazzolari (Vice President), John Costanza (Secretary) and Charlotte Rozycki (Treasurer) then lit a corresponding candle as they each described the tenets of the society: leadership, character, service and scholarship.

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Sports

Ward Melville's Athletic Trainer Wins Alumni Award

Ward Melville's Athletic Trainer and Science Teacher Claudine Weiner recently was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award from Stony Brook University.


Sports

Coach Desi Honored

This weekend the Suffolk County Baseball Coaches Association honored legendary Coach Al Desiderio.


Local

Parents Protest at William Floyd High School

Multiple groups, including “Moms for Liberty, Suffolk Chapter” and “Show Me Your Face” protested the William Floyd School District after concerned parents claimed a biological boy is a member of the Girls’ Varsity Track Team.