02.08.2017 Agriculture Farmers urge county to pass law to sidestep court ruling More than a dozen farmers, most from the East End, spoke at a Tuesday public hearing in Hauppauge in support of a proposed Suffolk County law that would sidestep...
01.13.2017 Editorials Editorial: Where does the public fit in this farmland debate? A feud between Suffolk County officials and a local environmentalist over farmland development rights is reaching a fever pitch. Essentially at stake is whether farmers have the right to...
01.10.2017 Agriculture Suffolk drafting law to help farmers sidestep court ruling Jeff Rottkamp, owner of Fox Hollow Farm in Baiting Hollow, had been preparing to join Suffolk County’s farmland preservation program. But those plans changed in September, when a New...
12.12.2016 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Ruling against preserved farmland development is misguided A local environmental organization has brought a lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Suffolk County Farmland Preservation Program, a visionary concept that has been the key to saving an...
