When members of the Southold Town Trustees first approached the Southold Town Board in July to propose changes to its wetlands code to better protect the shoreline, their suggestions — to define ...

I co-chair the Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition (FISM) with Elizabeth McCance and our coordinator, Hannah Vagts. It is a community-based organization founded in 2017 and consisting of 20 ...

An effort is afoot for the second year in a row to get New York Governor Kathy Hochul to sign a bill banning the harvesting of horseshoe crabs for bait and biomedical purposes. Ms. Hochul vetoed the ...

An effort is on to convince the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to fund a study needed for a major Army Corps of Engineers dredging project at Mattituck Inlet. The Mattituck ...

The incumbent Riverhead Republican candidates for Town Supervisor and Town Board declined to appear at two candidate forums in Jamesport and downtown Riverhead this past week, giving Democrats a ...

In communities across Long Island and beyond, conversations about mental health are no longer whispers in the background — they are urgent calls for change. From the quiet struggles of seniors to the ...

In June, I wrote a letter highlighting some of the problems our town [Southold] is currently facing with our marine ecosystem ...

Southold Town is going it alone on the final stages of its Zoning Update, after signing a settlement agreement with ZoneCo., the company the town had hired to do a major overhaul of the town’s zoning ...

Step back in time with the North Fork Community Theatre this weekend, as it once again co-hosts its annual historical graveyard tours. Stroll through the grounds of two local cemeteries as actors in ...

The Suffolk County Water has scheduled three public hearings for next week on whether its proposed North Fork Pipeline is exempt from local zoning and land use review, despite Riverhead Town's ...

We are always a little apprehensive here when we turn the calendar into October in a local election year. Like clockwork, some aspect of local politics turns quite ugly, quite fast. This fall, the ...

As the owners of a former nursery in Calverton began to remove 3,000 yards of waste material stored there, Southold Town has asked the Suffolk County Department of Health Services to test the material ...