A wall in a hallway of Southold Town Hall has photos of famous local African Americans who contributed to the community.
Councilman Brian Mealy said that one year into his historic tenure as the first Black member of the town's board, he still is humbled when he looks at the photos of those trailblazers who came before him.
Born and raised in Southold, Mealy, 46, a clerk at Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport, took an oath of...read more ››