Action at Goose Creek

Goose Creek public beach December 29th

Dredging continues despite crew injury

Dave Bergen reports that unfortunately one member of the dredge crew has been seriously injured. He has undergone surgery and Dave’s understanding is that he should be out of hospital by Christmas. Despite this, the dredging rig is back in town, and started work on Jockey Creek on Friday December 21st. “It appears that they [...]

Slow Going on Wetlands

Copyright 2007 Times/Review Newspapers Corp. Reprinted with permission Changes to Chapter 275 are examined closely at meeting By Julie Lane Southold Town Board members are prepared to approve changes to Chapter 275 of the wetlands code when they meet Tuesday, but with the caveat that trustees continue to hammer away at the more substantive changes [...]

Dredge Permit Correction

In our December Newsletter, we reported that the dredge permits for Schoolhouse Creek and Wickham Creek have now been released. We now understand that only the permit for Schoolhouse Creek was issued and that Wickham Creek is still outstanding at this time.

Autumn on the North Fork

Photo supplied by Steven Bellavia, SoutholdVOICE member

The Case of the 3 foot 2×6

Dan Christianson of Mattituck asks, what would you do if you were in this situation? Here’s the scenario: THE CASE OF THE 3 FOOT 2 x 6 It is a Thursday afternoon in the spring of 2008. The husband has walked from the home to the dock to check things out in anticipation of a [...]

Chapter 275 – Interim Results

The Board listens intently to the testimony being given from a packed Town Hall, spilling out into the hall. Through conflict comes drama, but this was not to be the occasion for it. The public hearing on Chapter 275 Amendments played out as a civilized and useful discourse between Environmentalists, Property Owners, Attorneys and Expeditors, [...]

Call for Reconciliation Task Force

Paul and Phyllis Torpey believe the very least we need to accomplish on 12/4 is to get the Town Board to formally establish a task force of stakeholders and regulators to hammer out an updated draft of Local Law Chapter 275, incorporating as much as possible (and repairing language) of the issues addressed by the [...]

Response to The Suffolk Times

To the Editor, I should like to address your editorial piece “Doesn’t look good.” SoutholdVOICE’s guidelines concerning government officials, stipulates that an elected official may join our organization, but may not serve on the board, as any officer. Mr. Bergen, who is a member because he has chosen to support our goals, holds no such [...]