I am increasingly concerned about the Suffolk County legislators “borrowing” funds from drinking water protection funds that are supposed to be used to make sure our drinking water is safe from contamination, toxins, etc. Water sampling is down 15 percent due to staffing shortages of testers.
Letters
Missing Howard
I first met Howard Meinke about 80 years ago, when his parents were building a summer place right next door to where my grandfather was building on Nassau Point. Not long ago I gave Howard a picture of the two of us, his cousin Martha Jane and my sister Betty taken where his dad was working on their house. (more…)
To the editor:
Last week, Sean Walter’s signature solutions for our town — a multi-million dollar “bridge” loan and specifics of a reuse plan prepared by his hand-picked, no-bid $600,000 consultant for EPCAL — were overwhelmingly rejected by his fellow Town Board members as well as the public. (more…)
To the editor:
Last week’s front-page article on court safety was excellent. Paul Squire covered the players and the serious issues quite well. The comments of the police chief and supervisor would be comical if not such a serious subject. (more…)
A six-mile stretch of Main Road could be listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The corridor includes Aquebogue’s Old Steeple Church, built in 1862 and designed by a farmer with no architectural experience, as well as Aquebogue Cemetery, which dates back to 1755 and contains the graves of numerous Revolutionary War soldiers. (Credit: Andrew Lepre)
To the editor:
“The natural progress of things is for government to gain ground and liberty to yield,” said Thomas Jefferson. A blanket historic preservation designation from Route 105 east along Main Road is proof that government is not a friend of business. Creating a blanket historic corridor so those individual property owners wishing to apply for preservation credits comes at the cost of including property owners who do not wish to be included. (more…)
Supervisor Sean Walter and Councilwoman Jodi Giglio at Tuesday night’s Town Board meeting. (Credit: Paul Squire)
To the editor:
There’s more to add to Marge Acevedo’s excellent column last week that outlined the Republican’s total culpability in running up the tab at the landfill and leaving our town with a large budget deficit that can’t be closed without either a large tax hike or borrowing more money. (more…)
A plan for about 2,300 town-owned acres at Enterprise Park at Calverton was recently submitted to Town Board members. (Credit: Andrew Lepre)
To the editor:
Are Sean Walter and the rest of the Riverhead Town Board playing Riverhead’s version of Netflix’s “House of Cards” in their new willingness to permit residential development in the EPCAL area? (more…)
Our family, like so many on Long Island, makes visiting the farms on the North Fork an annual tradition. Agriculture and agro-tourism are major Long Island industries. We should preserve agricultural space, but we must also weigh the threat of climate change to these very industries and to our local economy as a whole. Clean energy sources like solar will be key to reducing heat-trapping gas emissions and limiting the effects of global warming.
