Politics & Government

Southold Town Notebook: Deer, Beach and Helicopters

Town beach, deer management and helicopters were on the agenda this week at Southold Town Hall.

members discussed options to fix the badly eroded and how to best use harvested deer meat this week at Town Hall.

Town Beach needs fixin' — soon

With spring on the horizon, people will want to once again use Southold Town Beach — the narrow strip of sand and parking lot off of Route 48 on the Long Island Sound that was badly damaged in the of this past December.

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Councilman Al Krupski questioned how much parking was really necessary and discussed letting the beach retreat 15 feet into the torn-up asphalt lot and creating a dune with plantings.

"If we don't do something, it will be a causeway in 50 years," said Councilman Vincent Orlando.

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Southold Town said that the Town could use about 30,000 yards of sand from to help revitalize the beach. Town and county officials will meet with members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Feb. 16.

Town has deer meat dilemma

During a successful where 145 deer have been killed since October, many hunters have wanted to donate deer meat but a truck with a cooler provided by the Town for that purpose is gone. Town officials proposed hiring a butcher and installing an outdoor walk-in cooler behind the in order to keep deer processing in town and donate the meat to local food pantries.

Southold wants say in helicopter re-route

Supervisor Russell is pushing for Southold to have a bigger say in wherecoming from Manhattan, Westchester and Teeteboro fly over the East End.

Southold officials were not invited to a helicopter symposium held in November with representatives from East Hampton, several western Long Island towns and officials from the Federal Aviation Administration.

At this past Tuesday's Town Board work session, pilot Joe Fischetti said East Hampton was not negotiating in good faith with the FAA, adding that he does not see why flights coming out of South Manhattan should fly over North Fork. He said 75 percent of flights come from Manhattan.

"There are three airports on the South Shore: East Hampton, Gabreski and Southampton Village — we need to re-route helicopters to take south side routes," Fischetti said. "Southold needs to take control again with Shelter Island and maybe Riverhead."

Fischetti added that Port Washington wants in too and suggested creating a North Shore group to push the issue.


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