Storm Update: One way in, no way out

The bigger picture surrounding the Christmas Blizzard has started to emerge. There’s one way in and no way out. Read the comments, get the Sup’s position statement and find out if your area of interest qualifies for FEMA assistance.

Emergency Southold Trustee Permit Toolkit

In cooperation with the Trustee Office, Southold VOICE has prepared the following information for those who need to apply for an emergency Town of Southold Trustee permit due to damage from the last storm. Here’s what you need to know, with an itemized list of the forms you need and the people to contact.

County Rd 48 Washout – that was then, this is now

BEFORE and AFTER photos of one small section of Long Island Sound coastline in Southold, damaged by the great blizzard of 2010 – Hashamomuck Cove. The risk of a washout there has been known for some time, and now we see the kind of result that studying an issue to death can produce.

Concrete Solution to Cleaner Waterways

Recently returned to Southold from his Winter break, John Kramer lost no time in helping Southold VOICE uncover the latest and brightest ideas in town. Jack Gold put him onto this one and it’s a game changer for stormwater runoff problems that plague our waterways.

Trustee’s Meeting April 22

At the previous nite’s Town Board Hearing about the Dock in the Bays regulations, I objected that the proposal would eliminate the 41 existing docks over time because if they were damaged by a Hurricane or winter ice, they would have to conform to this new standard and, that being impossible, would be prohibited from [...]

Ecosystem-Based Management

Join the forum discussion on this post – (2) Posts Report by Dave Bergen on the Ecosystem-Based Management Seminar, Feb 26th in Greenport First off, I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but like the program, the information was (is) very complex, complicated and difficult in some ways to grasp. I attended [...]

DEC Roundtable Discussion

The agenda included sewer systems, dredging windows, aquaculture, farms, wineries, and Greenport Village. Then others such as SoutholdVOICE, Inc., could ask questions or raise issues in our areas of interest.