07.20.2020 News Bellone at odds with environmentalists over measure to plug budget gap Environmental groups in Suffolk County are critical of County Executive Steve Bellone’s proposal to ask voters in November whether to use money set aside for environmental protection programs to...
04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary Farmland Preservation Program has just achieved a triumph.The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that hamstrung...
11.17.2014 Government Resident: Don’t change Community Preservation Fund A resident went before the Town Board Friday to ask it to reject an idea of diverting money to a fund dedicated to buying open space —even a small...
03.18.2014 Government Environmentalists mobilizing to protect clean water Saying a lawsuit against Suffolk County isn’t quite enough, environmentalists have taken to parking lots from Southold to Huntington to get a referendum on this fall’s ballot to...