local news

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new local civic presidents

Both Wading River and Shoreham have new civic association Presidents. Mike Harrigan is the new Wading river Civic President and Rich Belsky is the new Shoreham Civic President. Best of luck to both of them.

posted: 7/1/2009

town and county will purchase spring meadow property

It was announced that Brookhaven Town will partner with Suffolk County to purchase the 60-acre Spring Meadow property in Wading river. The property had been approved for a 51 home clustered subdivision. Brookhaven will share of the purchase price is $1.7 million and the county will pay the balance of the $6.8 million purchase price to the owners, the Zoumas family.

posted: 6/26/2009

abco opposed amesty for illegal accessory apartments

The Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization will oppose a resolution sponsored By 6th District Councilman Keith Romaine to grant amnesty to landlords with illegal accesory apartments. ABCO President maryAnn Johnston indicated that, "Brookhaven has virtually no resources to ensure owner occupancy of those apartments at the present time, and in these tough economic times ABCO believes little additional resources will be assigned to inspect these apartments....".

posted: 6/20/2009

bigger better bottle bill delayed

A nickel deposit on bottles of water in New York State will not happen as scheduled. The bottle bill was to go in effect on 6/1/09 but experienced intense opposition from bottlers and wholesalers. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa ordered the state not to impose the Bigger, Better Bottle Bill this year. The state will have to wait to 2010. The nickel deposits would have added $115 million to the state's coffers in 2009.

posted: 6/15/2009

brookhaven gop picks slate

The Brookhaven Town Republican party will run the following slate for the upcoming November elections. Martin Haley will run against Democratic Supervisor Mark Lesko, Nick Caracappa will run for Highway Sperintendent and Cecile Forte will run for Town Clerk. The Republican Candidates for town board seats are Ed Wendol 1st district, Jane Bonner 2nd district, Kahthy Walsh 3rd district, Rick Cunha 4th district, Tim Mazzei 5th district and Keith Romaine 6th district.

posted: 6/11/2009

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