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final scoping document re: beacon wireless/little flower monopole

The Final Scoping document is now available on the Riverhead website(riverheadli.com). Simply go to the section Hotlinks and then to Environmental Impact Statements. You can compare the Draft Scoping document which represents the possible impacts as the developers sees it with the Final Scoping document which represents the list of additional impacts as the public sees it. Scoping details the issues that the developer must address in their EIS(Environmental Impact Statement).

route 25a corridor study gets town board o.k.

The Brookhaven Town Board voted unanimously to approve the funding($82,000) for the first phase of a Route 25A Corridor Study. The area covered will be from Crystal Brook Hollow Road in Mt. Sinai to the Riverhead Town line in Wading River. The consultant firm conducting the "Route 25A Community Visioning" will be BFJ Planning ( Buckhurst Fish & Jacquemart Inc.) The study will include the five hamlets of Mt. Sinai, Miller Place, Rocky Point, Shoreham and Wading River.

blass new deputy supervisor

Riverhead Councilwoman Barbara Blass will also serve as Deputy Town Supervisor until January 1, 2009. Supervisor Phil Cardinale has indicated he hopes to convince Blass to remain in that position when her term expires.

primary day-brookhaven yes , riverhead no

9/15 will be a Primary Election In Brookhaven's Second Council District for the Republican designation. Incumbent Jane Bonner will be opposed by Maria Navarro. There will not be any Primary Elections in Riverhead this year.

ballot question on dispatchers

Residents of the Town of Riverhead will get to vote on this ballot question in November, "Should the Town of Riverhead transfer the safety dispatch function to the County of Suffolk." Supervisor Phil Cardinale maintains that if the dispatch service is transferred to Suffolk County there will be no chargeback( increase in Riverhead taxes) for any additional cost onto the county dispatch service. Cardinale's republican opponent Sean Walter has pointed out that Riverhead residents might still be paying $50 each even if that dispatch services are transferred to the county. Walter points out that their is no guarantee the Suffolk County Legislature will drop the chargeback to Riverhead residents.

alessi urges lipa to weigh pros & cons of buying old power plants

"Assemblyman Marc Alessi is urging LIPA to hold off on its plan to purchase as many as 18 National Grid-owned power plants.... As it is, LIPA has amassed $7 billion in debt, Estimated price tags for the purchase of the older national Grid plants range from $500 million to $2 billion, and that doesn't include the cost to overhaul the facilities and bring them up to the clean, modern working standards we're demanding of our power plants, Alessi said. "

riverhead approves scoping on rechler

Riverhead has approved the Rechler scoping document. Rechler was chosen by Riverhead to redevelop part of the former Navy property at Calverton. Rechler will pay the town $18 million for the property. They plan to build an industrial park . Rechler must now complete an environmental impact statement.

vehicle breakins

Overnight local vehicles have been broken into. Please remove all valuables and report any suspicious person(s) and vehicles(s) to the police.

route 25a corridor study- mt. sinai to wading river

Brookhaven Councilwoman Jane Bonner and the Brookhaven Planning Department are guiding an effort to study the Route 25A Corridor from Mt. Sinai to the Riverhead Town line in Wading River. The study will have two components a Visioning component and a Land Use Plan component. The first step will be to review and evaluate proposals submiited by firms in response to a Town issued Request-For-Proposals.

40,000 tax grievances in brookhaven

Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko indicated that there have been forty thousand tax grievances filed this year in Brookhaven. He anticipates that most of the greviances will be successful and produce a significant decline in tax revenues for the town. Other big revenue generators are also down this year such as mortgage tax funds and fees charged for the disposal of construction materials at the town landfill. The loss of revenue has been partially compensated for by reductions in town spending.