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Education
Board of Ed presents its budget numbers
May 13, 2013
Business
Japanese eatery now open in Greenport
May 12, 2013
Community
Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
May 15, 2013
Board of Ed presents its budget numbers
May 13, 2013
Obituaries
Obituaries: Draper, Rodgers
March 7, 2013
Obituary: Winifred Holmes Luddecke
February 26, 2013
Real Estate
High end real estate deals escalate
May 1, 2013
Shed plan rejected: ZBA says ‘detriment’ to neighborhood
April 26, 2013
North Ferry Company
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Slice of Life: Nobody bothered to ask me … but
As Designated Historian and Poet Laureate of the Shelter Island Bridge and Tunnel Authority, I am hereby authorized to express SIBTA’s deep shock and humiliation at not being at least consulted on the current LIPA cable project. SIBTA, being an organization with a long and checkered history of providing alternate...
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Tale of the wayward (and fearless) swan
Shelter Island part-time resident and Ohio college student Anya Duvivier is naming a swan she sighted this morning“Lucky.” He deserved the handle, Ms. Duvivier figured, after North Ferry Captain Chris Young saved the bird from what she thought would be certain death with several drivers almost clipping him as he paraded...
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North, South Ferries not bothered by water taxi proposal
Two Shelter Island-based ferry companies aren’t too worried that a proposed Greenport-Sag Harbor water taxi will hurt their business. In fact, they welcome a new route linking the North and South forks. North Ferry general manager Bridge Hunt, whose ferry connects Shelter Island with Greenport Village, said he believes the new...
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County checks web, answers ferry query
As requested by Supervisor Jim Dougherty, County Legislator Ed Romaine got an answer from the legislature’s Budget Review Office (BRO) last week to the supervisor’s inquiry about how North Ferry defines a resident when it comes to selling resident-only fares. He made the request because, he said at a Town Board...
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Renters denied resident ferry rates
Two “credible younger renters” on the Island have been told they don’t quality for resident commuter tickets on North Ferry because they don’t own property here, Supervisor Jim Dougherty reported at Tuesday’s Town Board work session. “It’s not so” that renters don’t qualify as residents “and if it is we’ll change...
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North Ferry’s rate hike approved
The Suffolk County Legislature on Thursday approved North Ferry's application to raise its fares. The vote was unanimous, according to Julie Ben-Susan, the general manager of the Heights Property Owners Corporation, which owns the ferry company. She said the increase won't be final until County Executive Steve Levy signs off on...
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Office of Budget Review urges county to approve North Ferry rate hike
The county Legislature’s Budget Review Office has given Shelter Island’s North Ferry Company a thumbs up on its request for an rate hike, which would be the first since 2004 if the Legislature approves it. The total yield of the proposed increases would be $410,154, according to the company, up 7.8...
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County sets hearing on North Ferry rates
Residents who have something to say about the North Ferry Company’s proposed rate hike will have their chance to address the Suffolk County Legislature on the issue at a hearing on Tuesday, August 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the W.H. Rogers Legislative Building at 725 Veterans Memorial Highway in Smithtown. The...
