12.01.2019 Columns Column: Rising seas, storms present growing challenge for Trustees Here’s a story about what the rising water level in our bays has managed to do in just the past few years.
03.16.2018 Government Southold Trustees to pursue bacteria study Southold’s Board of Trustees has submitted a grant application to cover half the cost of a two-year study to examine bacteria in a number of town creeks. The Bacterial...
03.28.2017 Government Things waterfront property owners should know from last week’s SoutholdVOICE meeting Southold Town is considering a pair of amendments to the town code that could affect waterfront property owners. The changes were among the topics discussed at Saturday’s meeting of...
08.11.2016 Government Beach home expansion in Southold denied The Southold Board of Trustees has blocked ambitious plans to expand a small structure next to Kenney’s Beach in Southold from a roughly 900-square-foot bungalow to a two-story, 1,900-square-foot...
05.23.2016 Government Town officials looking to close demolition permit loophole When does renovation become demolition?
03.12.2015 News Ice ravages docks that line Southold Town bays, creeks “It looks like a war zone.” That’s how town Board of Trustees president John Bredemeyer described the damaged docks that now line Southold’s creeks and bays. The historically cold...
02.10.2015 Environment Town officials: It’s time to reopen waterways to shellfishing Frustrated with years of trying to get the State Department of Environmental Conservation to reopen waterways long closed to shellfishing on the North Fork, members of Southold Town’s shellfish...
01.25.2015 Columns Guest Column: The effects of deer overpopulation The overpopulation of deer is increasingly affecting the human and natural landscape in Southold Town. It is directly and indirectly impacting our water quality, our shoreline bluffs, headlands and...
01.24.2014 Health & Environment DEC declares Mattituck Creek OK for shellfishing Local baymen have some more underwater acreage from which to gather clams and oysters this winter. State Department of Environmental Conservation officials announced last week that from Jan. 15...
01.03.2014 Government Inauguration ceremony welcomes newly elected officials Newly elected Southold Town officials were sworn in last Thursday during an inauguration ceremony held at Town Hall. Southold Supervisor Scott Russell greeted the newly elected officials, who took...