Dave Bergen Resigns

This letter was directed to SoutholdVOICE President, John Kramer, and is published here with the permission of the author. John, Please consider this my letter of resignation from membership in SoutholdVOICE. While I am adamant that my membership in the organization has not influenced my vote on any permits related to members of the organization [...]

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 [...]

Peconic Bay Homeowners Association

The following article by SoutholdVOICE member Paul Torpey is a preprint from the Peconic Bay Home Owners Association Newsletter that will be published in coming weeks. SoutholdVOICE – Loud & Clear For too long Southold waterfront property owners and other friends of our local waters have constituted a passive and largely silent group of citizen [...]

Nov 20th Town Hall Meeting

At the Oct. 9th 2007, Town Hall board meeting, the town of Southold passed the following resolution: “The Town of Southold will holding a public hearing at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, on the 20th of November, 2007 at 4:35 p.m. at which time all interested persons will be given [...]

Why Fight Each Other?

The October 4th issue of the Suffolk Times features a Letter to the Editor from SoutholdVOICE’s John Edler, co-chairman of our Trustee Liaison Committee. Your headline “LWRP vs trustees” (front page, Sept. 27) reminded me of a story. In a country that allowed cockfighting there was a man who never won, so he decided to [...]

Aground at the Entrance to Deep Hole Creek

Steven Bellavia writes: I live on Deep Hole Creek in Mattituck. I would like to volunteer whatever time and services I could to help promote and protect our water and adjacent properties. Deep Hole Creek, like others, needs dredging. I was hard aground sitting directly between the red and green buoy at the creek entrance [...]

Army Corps Response to Congressional Letter

David Bergen, Southold Town Trustee, writes: The Army Corp responded last week in writing to the [congressional] letter. They included two items in their response. First, they provided a response to US Fish and Wildlife to their required Endangered Species Habitat report. We now are waiting for a response from USF&W to this letter. Second, [...]

Pipe’s Creek Water Quality Improving

Letter from Bill and Chris Eisenreich, reprinted with kind permission: We are property owners on Pipe’s Creek, in Greenport, and belong to Peconic Bay Estates Homeowners’ Association. After reviewing some of the topics on the website, our concerns are: The complicated permit application for the Trustees. It was fairly straightforward for our initial building in [...]

Pipe’s Creek Water Quality Improving

Letter from Bill and Chris Eisenreich, reprinted with kind permission: We are property owners on Pipe’s Creek, in Greenport, and belong to Peconic Bay Estates Homeowners’ Association. After reviewing some of the topics on the website, our concerns are: The complicated permit application for the Trustees. It was fairly straightforward for our initial building in [...]

Dredging Update

Letter from Dave Bergen in response to the post “Dredging is not looking good next year either”. Mr. Bergen is the Trustee who has taken the lead on dredging for the Town of Southold. “I wish to provide our members with additional details related to this issue. I was first informed of this latest challege [...]

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