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Greenport Village looks to Southold Town Board for help funding sewer upgrade
With critical upgrades to Greenport Village’s sewer system planned, officials are turning to the Town of Southold for help.
The proposed $1.5 million project would upgrade the central pump station on Third Street. Village administrator Paul Pallas said the primary goal is to increase capacity by enlarging pump and pipe sizes and expanding wet-wells and generator size.
“Our pump station is almost at its maximum,” Mayor George Hubbard Jr. explained during a Town Board work session Tuesday. “We have room at the treatment plant but we’re coming up short being able to move everything from the middle of the village up there.”
Southold senior services director Karen McLaughlin (left) and program supervisor Jacqueline Martinez are hoping to welcome senior citizens back for in-person lunch services this month. (Credit: Tara Smith)
After more than a year in isolation, seniors across the North Fork will soon be able to begin socializing with their peers again at the senior center in Mattituck.
Senior center director Karen McLaughlin announced plans to reopen the facility with safeguards against COVID-19 in place at a work session Tuesday morning.
“I truly believe we can do this safely,” Ms. McLaughlin said, noting that many elderly residents have been confined to their homes since last year. “Our seniors have been so strong and resilient.”
Peconic Estuary Partnership seeks CPF money from towns
Should Southold Town allocate a portion of its Community Preservation Fund revenues to help the Peconic Estuary Partnership?
The organization, which works to protect the waterways and wetlands surrounding Peconic Bay, has asked all five towns on the East End to chip in, with the goal of matching its federal allocation of $700,000 over three years.
“We’re looking to towns to assist us with funds that can be used operationally for the program as well as for the ongoing water quality work and habitat work that we do around the Peconics,” PEP executive director Joyce Novak explained to the Town Board during a work session Tuesday.
Southold Town may loosen beach restrictions this summer New Suffolk Beach in March. (Credit: Grant Parpan)
As New York begins to ease pandemic restrictions on social gatherings, capacity and dining, officials in Southold are beginning to plan for a more active summer season.
During a work session Tuesday, Supervisor Scott Russell said he doesn’t see a need to repeat the “draconian” measures imposed at local beaches last year.
“It was quite restrictive,” he said.
Based on newly released guidelines by the state, the maximum capacity for gatherings in public spaces will increase from 50 people to 100 people indoors and 200 outdoors, starting March 22.