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A Message to Governor Cuomo: Keep Riverside Barracks Staffed

December 14, 2015December 21, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_21054" align="alignnone" width="600"] East End elected leaders got together Monday morning at the Riverside State Trooper barracks to let Governor Andrew Cuomo know they want the barracks to continue to be staffed.[/caption] Monday morning was a typical one near the Riverside traffic circle. A wild-haired man was pacing near the bus stop on Flanders Road yelling at cars passing by. The vacant lot behind him that used to be

Lilia Esperanza Parra Aucapina's brother, Carlos Parra, and her niece,Maria Duchi, share a moment of silence in memory of their sister and aunt in front of Southampton Town Hall on Tuesday.

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Family & Friends of Lilia Aucapina Seek Homicide Investigation

December 8, 2015December 14, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_20928" align="alignnone" width="600"] Lilia Aucapina's brother, Victor Parra, and her niece, Maria Duchi (center), share a moment of silence in memory of their sister and aunt in front of Southampton Town Hall on Tuesday.[/caption] Two weeks after Lilia Esperanza Parra Aucapina's body was found hanging in the woods just a short walk from her Sagaponack home, her family is now facing a new puzzle: how the police could be treating the

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Riverside Community Tells Tale of Hope For Future

October 31, 2015November 6, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_20094" align="alignnone" width="600"] Sean McLean of Renaissance Downtowns gave an overview of the plan at the Oct. 29 hearing.[/caption] More than 100 residents of Riverside and its environs showed up at a Southampton Town Board hearing Thursday night to tell and hear tales of the long history of violence, drugs and prostitution that had laid waste to their community over the past several decades. But they also came with something new:

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Riverside Trooper Barracks Changes Worry Community

October 28, 2015October 31, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_20075" align="alignright" width="300"] The Riverside State Trooper barracks.[/caption] Members of the Bay View Pines Civic Association will be hosting the commander of the New York State Trooper barracks on Route 104 to their next meeting on Nov. 6 to discuss the state's decision to cut staffing and dispatching from that barracks. Civic Association President Ron Fisher has also invited state representatives to the meeting. On Oct. 22, State Senator Ken LaValle and

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Southold to Host Forum on Affordable Housing

October 17, 2015October 17, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_19829" align="alignright" width="300"] Paul Pawlowski's property on Route 25 in Mattituck is back on the market, after public opposition to his affordable housing plans.[/caption] In the wake of public opposition to variations on a plan for affordable housing in Mattituck, a dearth of proposed affordable housing projects, and a sluggish start to the town's provisions allowing for affordable accessory apartments, Southold Town's Housing Advisory Commission is hosting a public

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Arts in the Park, Public Hearing Planned for Riverside Revitalization

October 10, 2015October 20, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_14448" align="alignright" width="600"] The area nearest the Riverside traffic circle could see the most change under the proposed Riverside Revitalization Action Plan.[/caption] It's been a few months since Riverside Rediscovered unveiled its Riverside Revitalization Action Plan to reinvigorate the blighted hamlet just south of downtown Riverhead, and you probably haven't heard much about what's been happening with the plan since. That's because Renaissance Downtowns, which prepared the plan, has been busy

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A Sneak Peek at Riverside Revitalization Plan

April 24, 2015November 22, 2023 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_14448" align="alignnone" width="600"] The area nearest the Riverside traffic circle could see the most change under the proposed Riverside Revitalization Action Plan.[/caption] It seems what Riverside residents want more than anything else is to make it known to the world that they live in a beautiful place. Behind the open air drug markets, the street prostitution and the vacant and dilapidated buildings, organizers and community members who are working

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Pride Runs Deep — Submariners Honor Lost Comrades at New Suffolk Beach

April 15, 2015April 24, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_14240" align="alignnone" width="600"] Submarine veterans gathered at the New Suffolk Beach on Sunday.[/caption] On April 11, 1899, the United States Navy purchased its first-ever submarine, the U.S.S. Holland, which was stationed in the nation's first submarine base, in New Suffolk on the North Fork, from 1899 to 1905. Back in 2000, the U.S. Submarine Veterans, Long Island Base, which is based in Bohemia, placed a monument to that first submarine base

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Riverside Rediscovered Visioning Process Hits Home Stretch

March 20, 2015March 27, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_6924" align="alignnone" width="600"] Riverside's Revitalization Action Plan is due to Southampton Town within the month.[/caption] More than two dozen people who live, own property in or work in Riverside crowded into Renaissance Downtown's office by the Peconic River Thursday night to hash out the details of the Riverside Revitalization Action Plan, which they plan to present to the Southampton Town Board in late April. Attendees had their chance to

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Looking for Input on Riverside Redevelopment Proposals

March 18, 2015March 20, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_6924" align="alignnone" width="600"] Riverside's Revitalization Action Plan is due to Southampton Town within the month.[/caption] Renaissance Downtowns, the firm selected by Southampton Town to envision a new future for the blighted hamlet of Riverside, is just weeks away from submitting is Riverside Revitalization Action Plan to Southampton Town, and they're looking for input from the community as they put the finishing touches on their proposal. This Thursday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m.,

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Envisioning the Future of Mattituck

February 26, 2015March 2, 2015 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_12823" align="alignnone" width="600"] Love Lane, After Dark[/caption] It isn't every day that you get to watch a new civic association being formed, but that's just what happened Wednesday night in Mattituck, when a group of a dozen-and-a-half community members gathered in the basement of the Mattituck-Laurel Library to form the community's first civic group. Mattituck has its hands full with development issues — it has the most sprawling commercial