Shelter Island By the Numbers: March 10, 2024

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Vote at the Town Board t to reject sending a request to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to grant permission for a special election to fill the vacant seat on the Town Board

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Million dollars of Community Preservation Funds could be spent to pay the town’s 50% share of acquiring a site for at 72 and 80 Midway Road for passive recreation with Suffolk County paying the other half following a public hearing slated for March 18

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The year landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland produced plans for the development of Shelter Island Heights

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Month extension of the moratorium on building houses more than the allowable 5,999 square feet of living space is to be subject to a March 18 public hearing following a March 6 presentation to the Suffolk County Planning Commission

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Of the town’s 13 test wells hit their highest level on record in January thanks to significant rain in December and January

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Successful runs for public office mark the political career of retiring Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. (D-Sag Harbor)