TIMES/REVIEW GRAPHIC | A photoshopped version of the final print issue of The North Shore Sun, which was printed Dec. 3, 2010.

Northshoresun.com published its final story today.

The site, which had published in an online only format since The North Shore Sun newspaper stopped printing last December, folded as parent company Times/Review Newsgroup looks to bolster its editorial staff on the North Fork. Each of the Sun’s staff members will assume new roles working for Times/Review’s four other publications: The Riverhead News-Review; The Suffolk Times; The Shelter Island Reporter; and the Long Island Wine Press.

“It was a fun ride and I’ll always look back on my time at The Sun with great admiration for the work we did and the communities we covered,” said Grant Parpan, who served as editor since 2007.”There’s not a person who worked for this newspaper and website who didn’t pour their heart and soul into it, and the warm sentiments from our readers the past several weeks showed us a lot of people noticed.”

The North Shore Sun began printing in the Shoreham-Wading River, Rocky Point and Miller Place communities in 2002. It later expanded to cover Mount Sinai, Ridge, Middle Island and Coram.

“We’ve enjoyed having a presence in Brookhaven for the past decade,” said Times/Review publisher Andrew Olsen. “We are certainly going to miss being a part of our readers’ everyday lives.”

Since publishing its first issue on Sept. 12, 2002, the Sun has been recognized by its peers around the country as one of the top weekly newspapers in New York State. In both 2006 and 2008, it was awarded the Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence, the top editorial prize handed out each year by the New York Press Association.

In nine years, the paper has won more than 100 editorial awards for its coverage of government, education and sports, feature writing and photography.

Coverage of the Shoreham-Wading River School District will continue in the News-Review print and online editions.

Northshoresun.com will stay live for an as-of-yet undetermined amount of time allowing readers to continue to access archives.

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