🌱 North Fork Daily: Chick-Fil-A To Riverhead + CAST Cooking

Happy Tuesday, North Fork! Here's what's going on in town today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 43 Low: 33.

Here are the top four stories in North Fork today:

1. Chick-fil-A may be coming to Riverhead soon. A proposal would build a Dunkin' Donuts, a restaurant and the fast-food chain on Route 58. (Riverhead News Review)
2. CAST's youth culinary program is returning to Southold. It's a 12-week program for area students. (Suffolk Times)
3. Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard is giving away 200 Christmas trees for free to families in need or anyone who wants a tree. (Patch)
4. Southold Town Attorney Bill Duffy is leaving his position for a counsel position with the Suffolk County Legislature, he told Town Board in an executive session on Tuesday. (Suffolk Times)

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Today in North Fork:

• Virtual Enterprise East End Networking Event, Mattituck-Cutchogue UFSD.
• Junior High/High School Winter Concert, Greenport UFSD, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing on Long Island and now Nassau and Suffolk's seven-day positivity rate is the highest in New York State at 9.32 percent. Nassau and Suffolk reported 3,973 new cases on Sunday, with a total of 24 confirmed omicron cases on Long Island. (News 12)
• Check out this recipe for “Anything But” the kitchen sink cookies from Disset Chocolate founder and chocolatier Ursula XVII. (Dan's Papers)
• Find out more about Hallockville Museum Farm and how it preserves the North Fork's past. (Northforker)

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