10.23.2016 Columns Guest Spot: On Election Day, vote yes on CPF extension This Election Day, voters on the North Fork can take a huge step to improve water quality and preserve open space and farmland. Since 1999, the Community Preservation Fund...
10.01.2016 Editorials Editorial: Vote yes on Community Preservation Fund This November, voters in the five East End towns will have the unique opportunity to vote on a ballot measure that could generate $20 million annually to reduce nitrogen...
09.09.2016 Government Campaign launched to urge voter approval of CPF extension After deciding between Trump and Clinton, remember to flip the ballot on Election Day.
09.16.2015 Environment Town partners with Land Trust to preserve land in Orient Nearly 21 acres in Orient will be protected from development in perpetuity after the Peconic Land Trust recently partnered with Southold Town to purchase the land — and the...
07.21.2015 News As CPF revenues increase, Southold Town leads the way The first six months of the year have been profitable for the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund, according to elected officials. A large part of that boost was thanks...
03.27.2015 Editorials Editorial: Let’s keep the ‘bay’ in goals of Peconic Bay CPF The Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund has never been just about protecting agriculture, farms and open space. At its heart, the program, which took effect in 1999, has always...
03.19.2015 Columns Amper: Expand preservation fund to tackle water quality On April 2, East Enders will celebrate an important milestone: The Community Preservation Fund will have generated over $1 billion and preserved more than 10,000 acres of open space...
11.12.2014 Environment Could CPF funds be used to save water, too? While lawmakers have proposed legislation to deal with deteriorating water quality such as mandating the use of costly wastewater treatment systems, one East End legislator has an idea for...
03.14.2014 Real Estate Mortgage revenues remain stagnant despite jump in CPF While Southold Town’s community preservation fund revenues returned to pre-recession levels in 2013 — as reported last week — the amount of money the town collected in mortgage taxes...
10.30.2013 Government State adds sea level rise as reason to justify CPF purchases Gov. Andrew Cuomo enacted a law last week aimed at protecting and preserving East End coastlines that are at significant risk to climate change and sea level rise. Proposed...