The mouth of Greenport’s Sterling Harbor is filling up with sand, and local officials say it needs to be dredged, something that hasn’t been done for a long time.
“My understanding in talking to a fair amount of boaters coming out of the creek is that they’re starting to run aground,” Trustee Mary Bess Phillips said at last Thursday’s Village Board work session. “It’s getting shallower and shallower as storms keep coming through.” READ
Greenport Village will begin enforcing timed parking beginning on Saturday, May 27 on Main Road and Front Street, according to a notice from village code enforcement officer Greg Morris.
Contorting her long, slender frame through the brush at Clark’s Beach in Greenport, village resident Mindy Ryan was reminded of an old game she used to play.
“Remember Twister?” she asked the handful of volunteers within earshot.
Ms. Ryan was one of about a dozen local residents who twisted their way through thorn bushes and other hazards to clean up as much trash as they could in three hours Saturday morning. READ
Incumbent trustees Mary Bess Phillips and Julia Robins both retained seats on the Greenport Village Board after Tuesday’s election, defeating their lone challenger, Paul Kreiling, and will serve four-year terms.
In our 2013 endorsement of Mary Bess Phillips and Julia Robins for Greenport Village trustee, we wrote about communication. At the time, Village Board meetings had become a recurring showdown between a small group of residents and the board.
The three candidates running in this year’s Greenport Village Board election have different ideas about how $1.3 million from the tentative PSEG-Long Island cable project agreement should be spent.
UPDATE (March 13): The Greenport Village Board debate scheduled for Monday night has been moved up from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. to accommodate Floyd Memorial Library’s schedule. READ
Four candidates are running for two seats up for grabs in this year’s Greenport Village Board election.
Trustees Mary Bess Phillips and Julia Robins will face challengers Paul Kreiling and Lucy Clark, village officials confirmed Wednesday. Each seat carries a four-year term.
The Greenport Village Board held off on voting to increase the salaries of the mayor and four trustees Thursday night, although the majority of board members said they support a raise for the mayor, but not for themselves. READ
Seven months after a temporary road repair job was reportedly left to erode at the railroad crossing at Sixth Street in Greenport, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will be returning Monday to finish the job, according to village officials.
