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East End PD’s to get ‘fair shake’ from county taxes
Suffolk County Executive Steven Bellone speaks during the press conference at Southampton Town Hall Wednesday afternoon. (Credit: Carrie Miller) East End police departments and villages across Suffolk...
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Suffolk lawmakers outline plan to treat heroin addicts
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at a Monday press conference with elected officials. (Credit: Courtesy) In the ongoing effort to combat the growing use of heroin across Long Island, Suffolk...
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East End towns haven’t enacted Suffolk’s touted sex offender program
County Executive Steve Bellone (center) touts the benefits of the county’s new sex offender monitoring efforts in Hauppauge Friday. (Credit: Tim Gannon) A program designed to monitor and reduce...
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County legislators retooling drone ban bill to dodge Bellone’s veto
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has vetoed a widely-supported bill that banned the use of drones on county parkland, saying the law’s privacy stipulations would be unconstitutional. Rather than...
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Tourism group asks Bellone for a bigger chunk of marketing dollars
Members of the East End Tourism Alliance asked County Executive Steve Bellone to increase the amount of tourism funding they get through an existing 3-percent county room occupancy tax at a meeting in...
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Facing $10M budget cut, Suffolk bus services may be reduced
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone’s proposed budget includes a $10 million cut to the county’s bus transit system, which could result in service reductions starting this spring. No specific lines...
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Column: Take the buses off the chopping block
Before this year, I hadn’t used public transportation regularly as part of my commute since my Boston days — six years ago, back before I moved to Long Island. That all changed a couple months ago,...
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County Executive 2015 Endorsement: Steve Bellone
When Steve Bellone was first elected Suffolk County Executive four years ago, he inherited a financial firestorm. The county was facing a $500 million deficit and a $200 million structural budget gap,...
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Election 2015: Riverhead News-Review Endorsements
Tuesday is Election Day nationwide and voters in Riverhead Town will be asked to choose a supervisor, two council members, two assessors and a town justice. They’ll also pick a county executive and...
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Suffolk to increase fees at parks to help close budget gap
Green Key passes, golf course admission and hunting permits will become more expensive next year, as will all other user fees at county parks, if the Suffolk County Legislature approves a resolution...
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New fuel tank regs to aid farmers, protect environment
Suffolk County officials announced Thursday that newly approved legislation will help farms and businesses upgrade aging fuel tanks with larger, state-of-the-art systems. County Executive Steve...
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Suffolk leaders tout $75M water quality fee, though some are wary
Suffolk County voters could be asked in November to help fund water quality improvement initiatives through a surcharge on water usage. Flanked by early supporters of his draft legislation, County...
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County Executive to DA: ‘You must resign from office’
Citing a “culture of corruption,” Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone demanded district attorney Thomas Spota, whom he described as the head of a “criminal enterprise,” resign following the latest...
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Effects of Tropical Storm Hermine could be felt on North Fork Sunday
Coastal flooding and strong winds remain the biggest threat to the North Fork as the effects of Tropical Storm Hermine are expected to be felt overnight Sunday into Monday, according to the National...
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Suffolk Closeup: County wars over dollars and sense
County Executive Steve Bellone (D-Babylon) has proposed a record-high budget for Suffolk County government for 2017 — $2.96 billion, 1.5 percent higher than this year’s. Mr. Bellone says the budget is...
View ArticleRiverhead grad honored for heroics following NYC bomb scare
It’s been a whirlwind for Riverhead High School grad Peter Cybulski since the night of July 20. It was on that evening that Mr. Cybulski, a 24-year-old officer with the New York Police Department and...
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Suffolk Closeup: Is the county doing enough to treat wastewater?
Suffolk County government for years delayed considering advanced wastewater treatment systems — to be installed at homes and featuring new technologies that reduce nitrogen discharges to a fraction of...
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Suffolk Closeup: Budget battles at top of county government
The top fiscal watchdogs in Suffolk County government are critical of County Executive Steve Bellone’s recommended $2.96 billion county budget for 2017. “It is constructed so poorly and so tenuously,”...
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Suffolk drafting law to help farmers sidestep court ruling
Jeff Rottkamp, owner of Fox Hollow Farm in Baiting Hollow, had been preparing to join Suffolk County’s farmland preservation program. But those plans changed in September, when a New York State...
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First kelp crop harvested in Cornell pilot program
Early Thursday afternoon, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski climbed aboard a barge and headed into the Peconic Bay. Their mission: to harvest sugar kelp,...
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