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By Stephen J. Kotz State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. this week stepped up his criticism of the State Department of Environmental Conservation over its failure to shut down the Sand Land mine in Noyac. In February, the state’s highest court annulle

By Brendan J. O’Reilly In February, just months shy of its 25th anniversary, the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund surpassed $2 billion in revenue raised, far exceeding any expectations that advocates originally had for the program. It’s

What’s Going On? It’s time to ask the question directly: What is going on with the State Department of Environmental Conservation and its steadfast refusal to get out of bed with sand mines on the South Fork? It’s gone from confusing to baffling to a

Learn the Law A huge hurdle to enforcing the New York State Open Meetings Law is that when a governing body, land-use board or committee unlawfully meets in private, how would anyone know they broke the law? There are violations of Open Meetings Law

A Warm Place South Fork winters blend gently into spring, so much so that it can be hard to tell the two seasons apart as they transition. Despite the sunny days and moderate afternoon temperatures in the early days of April, on four days this month,

Time To Grow There is a point when “quaint” becomes the enemy of real, necessary progress. Protecting the things that make a neighborhood unique and special is worthy work, but not when it runs head-on into efforts to keep that same neighborhood aliv

Our Mortal Peril Living in a time when the ongoing effect of humankind on the Planet Earth is part of the international conversation, nearly on a daily basis, it’s hard to imagine a time when it seemed necessary to set aside an entire day for America

The enhanced South Fork Commuter Connection (SFCC) service — coordinated weekday train and shuttle bus service between Speonk and Montauk — helps give

The Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund (CPF) definitely slowed down in 2022, and then it took a dive in the first month of 2023. 

New York State's top court nullified mining permits for Sand Land in Noyac, a mine at the center of a long-running legal dispute, but the case is not over.