Civics

[caption id="attachment_25129" align="alignnone" width="600"] At the Point[/caption] East Hampton Town has spent the past few months looking at the unique issues affecting the commercial areas in East Hampton, Springs, Wainscott and Amagansett, and this week they're kicking off a series of visits and community meetings to discuss the future of the hamlet of Montauk. These hamlet studies are underway by the town in an attempt “to create plans for the future that create dynamic, walkable hamlet

[caption id="attachment_27077" align="alignnone" width="600"] At 41 North Phillips Avenue.[/caption] Residents of Speonk and Remsenburg packed into Southampton Town Hall last Thursday, July 28, to hear the latest of numerous development proposals for their hamlet. Georgica Green Ventures, the workforce housing developer behind Southampton's controversial Sandy Hollow Cove workforce housing complex in Tuckahoe and several projects underway in downtown Riverhead, has an option to buy a 4.28 acre property along a sleepy

[caption id="attachment_26022" align="alignnone" width="600"] Sunday's protest on Peconic Avenue in Riverhead (and Riverside).[/caption] While the Black Lives Matter movement across the nation was shaken to its core this past week after the killing of five police officers at a demonstration in Dallas Thursday night, in Riverhead Sunday afternoon more than 150 protesters took to the streets to unabashedly rekindle the movement's message. Many in attendance insisted that, while all lives matter, no one

[caption id="attachment_20146" align="alignnone" width="600"] The Peconic River separates Riverhead and Riverside, but it can also help to bring both communities together.[/caption] The Flanders, Riverside, Northampton Community Association has partnered with the newly formed Peconic River Community Development Alliance to apply for and receive a $20,000 grant from the Long Island Community Foundation to hire a community organizer to help engage community members in activities surrounding the Peconic River. The Alliance was formed

[caption id="attachment_19594" align="alignright" width="600"] Aquebogue[/caption] When a couple dozen residents of the Aquebogue-Jamesport corridor showed up at Riverhead’s town board work session Thursday morning to hear the town’s plan to study the Main Road corridor through their little chunk of the town, many said they don’t believe such a study is in the best interest of their neighborhoods. Joan Zaniskey came to the meeting on behalf of the Friends of

[caption id="attachment_23076" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The dangerous intersection on the curve in the center of Mattituck, as seen from the front lawn of the Mattituck Presbyterian Church[/caption] The Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association has spent the past year gathering ideas from the community about how to make the intersection of Route 25, Love Lane and Old Sound Avenue safer for traffic, pedestrians and the community. The civic group will hold a special meeting next

[caption id="attachment_22627" align="alignnone" width="600"] A community meet-up at Riverside Rediscovered[/caption] Riverside Rediscovered, the community group formed as part of the effort afoot to redevelop the Southampton hamlet of Riverside, is hosting a discussion next Tuesday, March 1 on what can be done to address crime, addiction and violence in the community. Suffolk County Deputy Police Commissioner Risco Mention-Lewis will be leading a presentation about the Council of Thought and Action, a

[caption id="attachment_22583" align="alignnone" width="600"] A marker for the burial ground at Sylvester Manor.[/caption] Sag Harbor's Eastville Community Historical Society and Shelter Island's Sylvester Manor educational farm are teaming up this weekend for a discussion at Bay Street Theatre on the stories of African American East Enders that have "been hidden, forgotten, untold, fragmented and/or fabricated." The panel discussion, exhibition and reception, titled "How Is the Story Told? An Observance of