09.25.2022 News Long Island Pine Barrens Society hopes to see additional properties in Riverhead Town preserved The Long Island Pine Barrens Society has identified 15 properties it would like to see preserved, including several in Riverhead Town. The Central Pine Barrens includes land in the...
01.13.2019 Columns Guest Column: Keeping watch on that fine EPCAL land The Riverhead Town Board has made a momentous and apparently irreversible decision to sell 1,600 acres of EPCAL land at a giveaway price to Calverton Aviation & Technology, completely...
04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for farmland preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary farmland preservation program has just achieved a triumph. The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that...
06.13.2017 Government County urges state to pass law clarifying farmland program Suffolk County lawmakers are urging the passage of state legislation that would permit development for agricultural uses on protected farmland.
02.08.2017 Agriculture Farmers urge county to pass law to sidestep court ruling More than a dozen farmers, most from the East End, spoke at a Tuesday public hearing in Hauppauge in support of a proposed Suffolk County law that would sidestep...
01.10.2017 Agriculture Suffolk drafting law to help farmers sidestep court ruling Jeff Rottkamp, owner of Fox Hollow Farm in Baiting Hollow, had been preparing to join Suffolk County’s farmland preservation program. But those plans changed in September, when a New...
12.28.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Big win on farmland for voters, taxpayers Christmas came early for Suffolk County voters in the form of a New York State Supreme Court decision on preserving farmland.
10.07.2016 Agriculture Court ruling: Development exceptions not allowed on preserved farmland Special permits and so-called hardship exceptions, which allowed farmers to develop preserved farmland, have been deemed illegal, according to a New York State Supreme Court ruling.