On the North Fork of Long Island is the charming, historic village of Greenport.
Capital One is paying 23% more than North Fork's share price on March 10th.
North Fork's profits in the fourth quarter were 5% lower than in the same period of 2004.
In 1996 he and a partner, John Kowalski, built the first and only fly-fishing lodge on the Blackfoot, North Fork Crossing.
That may seem generous, given that lately North Fork, like other regional banks, has been having a harder time of it.
North Fork is trying to offset this by putting more weight on commercial mortgages and by reducing its exposure to the residential market.
On the plus side, John Kanas, North Fork's chairman and chief executive, brings with him experience of 14 acquisitions over the past two decades.
"This could cause a flood that could generate a mudflow down the flanks of the volcano, into the North Fork Toutle River, " Dr Major added.
The North Fork Oyster Company has experienced great success in its Stirling Square location since opening a year ago with Farouk Ahmad and his wife, Sana, at the helm.
Any beverage that conjures visions of wandering your North Fork orchid, to the manner born, with a pair of pruning shears on a precocious spring day must be doing something right.
In all this, North Fork is not alone: regional banks have been more vulnerable than larger banks to the flattening yield curve because they tend to be more reliant on interest income.
For oysters with a water view, award-winning clam chowder and classic fried seafood, Claudio's Clam Bar has a celebratory feel for no apparent reason except that life is good in the North Fork.
Morningstar's Mr Callahan believes that one cause of Capital One's bid for North Fork may have been the purchase by Sovereign Bancorp, an east-coast bank, of Independence Community Bank, a rival to North Fork in and around New York.
"This is heartbreaking and we're sorry, " State Forester Joe Duda told reporters Wednesday about the Lower North Fork Fire, which has scorched 4, 140 acres in Jefferson County, destroying or damaging 27 houses and leaving a woman missing in addition to the two fatalities.
Tucked between the Castle and Little Belt mountain ranges, the ranch has 9, 000 deeded acres, five reservoirs, 3 miles of the trout-rich North Fork of the Musselshell River, and antelope, deer and elk that roam the mix of bald hills and stands of Douglas fir and ponderosa pines.
Born Arthel Lane Watson in Stoney Fork Township, near Deep Gap, North Carolina, on March 3, 1923, Watson was blinded from an eye infection as a baby.
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