Our vision was very simple, to create an award-winning community newspaper to serve northeastern Brookhaven modeled after our other well-established weekly flags: The Suffolk Times, Riverhead News-Review and Shelter Island Reporter. Our oldest newspaper has been around for more than 150 years.
The North Shore Sun was launched in September 2002. In the more than eight years we’ve published the Sun, we have achieved many of our goals. We have covered Wading River to Port Jefferson with our style of hard-hitting local news that earned the newspaper recognition as the best weekly in New York State twice in the past three years.  
We have some of the best people in the business leading the Sun: Michael White, Grant Parpan and Joe Werkmeister run our editorial staff. All are highly accomplished, and I challenge you to find anyone better at what they do.  
But over the past year our cost-structure with the Sun as a print medium has gotten out of whack.  Simultaneously, we introduced NorthShoreSun.com, which has surpassed all of our forecasts for traffic, which includes unique visitors and the time readers spend on the site. Driven by these factors, the last print edition of The North Shore Sun will be delivered two weeks from today, on Friday, Dec. 3. But the SunLand area, as this corner of Brookhaven Town has come to be known, will not be losing what we — and most of you — consider to be a very important voice. NorthShoreSun.com will be carrying on that legacy exclusively, without its print counterpart.
Our readers will still to be able to follow us on the web — at all times — for comprehensive, award-winning journalism. Shoreham-Wading River coverage will once again be featured in our sister publication, the Riverhead News-Review. Existing print subscribers in that area can contact our office at 298-3200 to convert their subscription.
We are moving to the future now and are confident that NorthShoreSun.com will become your source for award-winning local news. Visit us today to check out what is new, sign up for breaking news, comment on stories and visit our advertisers with hotlinks to their sites.  We would like to thank our valued advertisers for helping make the Sun possible.  
And, of course, the readers: Thank you for inviting us into your homes each week with open arms. We hope you will continue to embrace us as we embark on our new journey at NorthShoreSun.com.
Sincerely,
Andrew Olsen
publisher, Times/Review Newsgroup