Town Hall Notes: Hearing set on battery storage moratorium, Supervisor...
A public hearing on a halt in development of battery energy storage systems in Southold has been set for Tuesday, March 14, at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. The proposed moratorium would run for 12 months to...
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Darla Doorhy of Kait’s Angels named Citizen of the Year by Mattituck-Laurel...
For her longstanding dedication to those enduring trying times, Darla Doorhy received the Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association’s 2022 Citizen of the Year award Thursday at Veterans Park in Mattituck....
View ArticleResponders to get priority for affordable housing
In a bid to boost the ranks of local fire departments, the Southold Town Board voted last Tuesday to give volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians priority on the town’s affordable...
View ArticleNo tax hike in Southold Town’s tentative budget
Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell presented a tentative town budget of almost $57 million for the 2024 fiscal year last week. The budget, which will not be voted on by the Town Board until next...
View ArticleNYS troopers vacate Fishers Island barracks; Southold PD must patrol island
The Southold Town Police Department is now responsible for patrolling Fishers Island. On Wednesday, State Troopers vacated the barracks they used as a police station on Fishers Island for more than a...
View ArticleTown Board votes on disciplinary action for three officers involved in...
With a vote to discipline two members of the Southold Town Police Department, the three-and-a-half-year retirement party saga appears to have reached its conclusion. During its regularly scheduled...
View ArticleScott Russell cleared by Southold Town in Damon Hagan accusation
Five members of the Southold Town Board voted Tuesday evening to adopt findings from an investigator tasked with evaluating allegations by former assistant town attorney Damon Hagan that Supervisor...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: A message from Southold Supervisor Al Krupski
SOUTHOLDThank you, Scott, for all you’ve done My letter is about Southold Town, founded as a township in 1640, and the town that it is today in 2024. We all know Southold today, we know the South...
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Photos: Fire depts march in snowy Greenport village
Despite snowy conditions, the Greenport Fire Department Washington’s Day Parade kicked off at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 in Greenport village. The long-running tradition, organized by the Greenport Fire...
View ArticleScott Russell reflects on decades of service
While Southold Town Hall was closed for a four-and-a-half-day Thanksgiving break, Supervisor Scott Russell labored not with pen and paper, but with spackle and spade. As a practical joke, Mr. Russell...
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Southold’s first solid waste coordinator retires after 34 years
Controversy ensued in 1990 when the Southold Town Board appointed Jim Bunchuck — an environmental management consultant with a Master’s degree in International Relations — to manage the garbage dump....
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