The Northport Village Zoning Board of Appeals, citing complaints over noise and overcrowding, voted Feb. 15 to temporarily close the tasting room of pop- ular village hangout, Sand City Brewing Co.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has nominated Geraldine Hart, a Northport High School grad and agent in charge at the FBI’s Melville office for the past four years, for the role of Suffolk Police Commissioner.

A former East Northport resident and father of a teenager killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting last month has joined the national cry for gun control.