News Nearby: Carl Bernstein to Join SBU Faculty

Catch up on some headlines from surrounding areas from the past week:

PATCHOGUE

Man Talked Off Waverly Bridge

A man threatening to jump off the Waverly Avenue overpass over Sunrise Highway led police to block off the highway from 8:20 a.m. until nearly 3 p.m.

THREE VILLAGE

Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize Winner, to Join Stony Brook Faculty

Stony Brook University's newest visiting professor is none other than Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, who along with Bob Woodward broke one of the biggest stories in American politics in the 1970s when they exposed the Watergate controversy as reporters for The Washington Post. 

The university announced Thursday that Bernstein, 69, has been appointed to a two-year position as a visiting presidential faculty member who will teach and give lectures for the School of Journalism and the departments of English, history, political science, sociology and writing and rhetoric.

MILLER PLACE

After years of efforts, over $200,000 worth of work is expected to commence by mid-September to clean up the Woodhull House in Wading River, considered to be the oldest standing home in the Shoreham-Wading River area.