Community Corner

Week in Review: First Week of 2012

Premature death of 47-year-old business owner resonates throughout community.

Take a look back and catch up on the stories that mattered this past week:

1. Following during which he was badly burned, Burt's Reliable owner and former Southold Town Councilman , sending shockwaves through the community. The for his philanthropy and caring spirit, and was .

2. Florida Gov. Rick Scott for former North Fork resident Robert Waterhouse. Waterhouse was found guilty of raping and murdering a 77-year-old Greenport woman in 1966. After he was released on life parole, he was found guilty of raping and murdering another woman in 1980. He is scheduled for execution on Feb. 15.

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3. With a new year comes a fresh face to the Southold Town Board. Councilwoman Jill Doherty joined her new colleagues Tuesday morning as she was

4. After seven years in court, the in an effort to annex just over 17 acres near Route 48. The village's legal fees had been covered by a private developer for whom the annexation would have benefitted - a proposed development on the property would have hooked up to the village's sewer system.

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5. Debate over a proposal to regulate farm stands and tasting rooms as an accessory use . Councilwoman Jodi Giglio and Councilman George Gabrielsen brought forth revised legislation after a by the agricultural community as overly restrictive.


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