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🐝 Expanding Into Prepared Foods

🐝 Expanding Into Prepared Foods

Pip’s To Go, Seaport Museum Refresh, Annual Thank You

Thomas Loncar
May 20, 2026

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Good Morning, North Fork! This is your regularly scheduled interruption from whatever you were supposed to be doing.

In today’s North Fork Buzz:

Pip’s To Go
Seaport Museum Refresh
Annual Thank You

Ready, Set, Go!

P.S. As the weather gets nicer and the calendar fills up, The Buzz gets a lot more link heavy. Sometimes email providers see that and decide to get suspicious, so if we disappear from your inbox one morning, check your Spam/Junk folder before assuming we skipped town for the summer.

The Lowdown

Pip’s To Go 🍗

If you’ve stared into your fridge with absolutely no plan now you’ll have a new option.

Starting Memorial Day Weekend, Pip’s Café & Provisions is expanding into prepared foods and catering, stocking the case with salads, deli staples, herb marinated chicken, steak with chimichurri, meatloaf and chef Finn O’Hara’s already talked about fried chicken.

The freezer section is also getting loaded up with scratch made soups, chicken pot pies, cookie dough, raw biscuits and scones.

Get the full story 👉 Northforker

Seaport Museum Refresh ⚓️

Greenport’s East End Seaport Museum is reopening for the season Friday with refreshed galleries, revamped kid spaces and a major new installation from nationally recognized Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard.

Leonard’s newest chapter of BREACH: Logbook 26 | CONVERGENCE takes over part of the museum with ceramics, video and hanging installations exploring Indigenous relationships to water.

Elsewhere inside the museum, visitors will find a redesigned waterfront history exhibit, a refreshed Children’s Discovery Area with interactive stations and a fully renovated gift shop stocked for the season.

The reopening celebration happens this Friday, May 22.

Get the full story 👉 East End Beacon

Annual Thank You 🍕

After surviving a brutal case of COVID in 2020, local resident Sheri Winter Parker made herself a promise: give back to the people who helped save her.

Now every year, she brings lunch to the staff at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, this time with the Rolling In Dough pizza truck feeding hospital workers, EMS crews and first responders.

Parker says the annual thank you is also about reminding people how important the Greenport hospital is, especially when emergencies hit close to home. ($)

Get the full story 👉 Suffolk Times

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Animal of The Week

Meet Maui 🐾

Meet Maui, the snow white gentleman who looks like he should have a tiny crown and a very important appointment on his walking route.

This young, medium sized terrier mix has grown up in the shelter, but somehow he still greets each day like it might be the one that brings his big break. He’s house trained, smart, and always ready for a good challenge, especially if there’s a treat maze involved. Maui loves long walks with staff and volunteers, and he brings that eager, hopeful energy that makes people root for him instantly.

He’s been waiting longer than he should have, but Maui hasn’t stopped believing his person is out there. For the right match, he’s going to be grateful, loyal, and very happy to finally have a home to call his own.

Maui is ready for his fresh start, and honestly, it feels long overdue.

Questions? Call North Fork Animal Welfare League at 631-765-1811

If you are interested in volunteering and helping animals like Maui, contact Laura at [email protected]

Trivia Time 🧠

Your brain deserves more than scrolling and skimming. Each week we’ll hit you with one question designed to make you pause, scratch your head, and maybe argue with whoever’s sitting next to you. Think of it as a quick mental pit stop: a chance to flex your random knowledge, test your memory, or finally use that obscure fact you learned in 7th grade.

Just click one of the multiple-choice answers to see if you got it right!

Find more info on the answer at the very end of the newsletter

On this day in history in 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing in Paris 33½ hours later. What was the name of the plane he flew?

Last Week’s Results

Last week we asked: Who wrote the iconic song American Pie?

Answer: Don McLean

92% of you got it right. And for the 8% who missed it looks like somebody skipped the singalong portion of history

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Charles Lindbergh’s Plane