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Southold Seeks Testing of Calverton Waste, Parts Ways with Zoning Consultant; Successful Aging, Even with Alzheimer's; Water Authority Fights Riverhead over Permits for North Fork Pipeline

October 5, 2025
Southold Seeks Testing of Calverton Waste, Refuses to Allow it to be Trucked to Cutchogue
As Patriot Recycling began to remove 3,000 yards of waste material stored at a former nursery in Calverton last week, Southold Town has asked the Suffolk County Department of Health Services to test the material and has initiated legal maneuvers to prohibit the waste being brought to an industrial site in Cutchogue.
Water Authority To Hold Hearings On Whether North Fork Pipeline is Exempt from Local ReviewThe Suffolk County Water has scheduled three public hearings for next week on whether its proposed North Fork Pipeline is exempt from local zoning and land use review, despite Riverhead Town’s insistence that the town is the correct agency to perform this analysis. Riverhead Town maintains that the Water Authority will have to submit the project to review by its regulatory boards, and in August initiated a process known as a “Monroe Balancing Test,” a New York State legal framework to determine whether local municipalities have control over regional projects. | Advertisement Photos: Third North Fork Walk to End Alzheimer’sThe North Fork turned out Saturday, Sept. 27 for the Third Annual North Fork Walk to End Alzheimer’s to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. |
![]() ![]() | Pathways to Successful Aging, Even With Alzheimer’sIt takes a certain quiet determination to wake up each day, when you’re either living with or helping someone face cognitive decline, and find a way to push through the plaques and tangles of neurodegeneration to reach the world around you. Having a purpose each day is the hallmark goal of the Harbor South memory care unit at Peconic Landing, a continuing care retirement community in Greenport. Residents at Harbor South, where 16 people are living with the early stages of dementia, have had a new reason to find purpose in their days since the beginning of this year, after Peconic Landing began implementing a new voluntary program for residents called SAIDO Learning — half hour sessions, five days a week, of math, reading and pattern recognition exercises. |
On The North Fork
Southold Brings Zoning Update Back in House
Southold Town is going it alone on the final stages of its Zoning Update, after signing a settlement agreement to part ways with ZoneCo., the company the town had hired to do a major overhaul of the town’s zoning code, in early September.
Dave’s Desk@Ditch: The Essence of Warriorship“The discovery of basic goodness is not a religious experience, particularly. Rather it is the realization that we can directly experience and work with reality, the real world that we are in. When we feel that our lives are genuine and good, we do not have to deceive ourselves or other people. The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.” | Featured Letter: Saving Our BaysTo the Editor: In June, I wrote a letter highlighting some of the problems our town [Southold] is currently facing with our marine ecosystem. For residents who have lived here over the past 30 years, you have seen the decline firsthand: the disappearance of cordgrass in our creeks, the loss of bogs, ribbed mussel beds, and marsh islands, and in some cases, even the vanishing of upper beach wetlands. |
This Fall’s Elections
Editorial: Silly Season Arrives, Right On Cue
We are always a little apprehensive here when we turn the calendar into October in a local election year. Like clockwork, some aspect of local politics turns quite ugly, quite fast.
This fall, the mudslinging came straight from the head of town government in Riverhead, Riverhead Town Supervisor Tim Hubbard, who issued a press release in late September blasting the heads of two civic associations who are also involved in Democratic politics.
On the Air
Behind the Headlines

This weened on Behind the Headlines on 88.3 WLIW-FM, Beacon editor Beth Young joinds a panel discussing concerns over contaminated soil in Calverton, the unsolved cold case of Montauk Mary and innovative care programs for the aging population. Tune in on PBS Channel 21 this morning at 8 a.m., on the radio today at 10 a.m. or any time at the link below.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, Oct. 5 East Hampton Largest Clam Contest All clam entries must be present to be judged by 10 a.m. The afternoon event, which begins at noon, will include music, chowder, clam pie, a barbecue, and activities for kids and families celebrating East Hampton's maritime traditions. | Sunday, Oct. 5 Cutchogue Old Burial Ground Tour Performers in period costumes will recount the life stories of notable people buried in the graveyard. The tour is presented by the North Fork Community Theatre in conjunction with Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council & Museums. | Wednesday, Oct. 8 Cold Stunned Sea Turtle Training at Quogue Wildlife Refuge Atlantic Marine Conservation Society biologists will review the species of sea turtles found in NY waters and the threats they face during this presentation in the Quogue Wildlife Refuge’s Nature Center. |

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