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Week in Review: All Around Us
Southold on Housing, Land Preservation & Pollinators, Riverhead Votes to Condemn Science Center, Getting Lost On Purpose, Earth Day
Beth Young
April 12, 2026
On the Forks
Southold Will Explore Community Housing on 31+ Acres on Youngs Avenue
Handy Pantry & Hard Corner Projects Inch Ahead
In what Southold Town Planner Mara Cerezo is calling a “once in a generation planning opportunity,” the Southold Town Board has agreed to ask for help from the state to explore the use of 31.4 acres of town-owned land on Youngs Avenue for community housing.
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   | Lost and Found: Artist Anne Sherwood Pundyk on Reinventing Her ProcessMattituck-based painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk's work is told in a highly recognizable language of intense color and repeating patterns, on unstretched canvases that are often cut and then sewn back together, the threads and seams a part of an unfolding visual story. But about a year ago, she decided she needed a new challenge, a new way of telling these stories in a medium outside her comfort zone. She applied for a residency at The Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Austin, Texas and drove across half the country in December, purposely getting lost in this new artistic endeavor. Not long after she came home with her series of 30 prints — 15 of which she's happy with — her friend, artist and curator Rainer Gross, urged her to show them at The Gallery at Holy Trinity Church in Greenport. The exhibition, "Getting Lost On Purpose," on view since March 8, was initially slated to close April 19, but has been extended at least through early May. Ms. Pundyk will discuss her work there with Mr. Gross and curator Franklin Hill Perrell on Saturday, April 18 at 3:30 p.m. |
Development
Riverhead Moves Forward with Condemnation Proceedings for Long Island Science Center
In a 3-2 vote, the Riverhead Town Board voted Tuesday afternoon to begin condemnation proceedings for the Long Island Science Center property at 111 East Main Street, on the Riverhead Town Square, over the objections of several community members and representatives of the Science Center.
Conservation in the Southold Spotlight
 Southold CAC Chair Carol Brown measuring the new pollinator garden at Town Hall A Town Hall Pollinator Garden and Green Expo are Coming to SoutholdIt’s just been just over a year since the mission of Southold’s Conservation Advisory Council was reworked to focus on new ways to engage the public in helping the environment, and this spring the fruits of the CAC’s work are popping up everywhere. The CAC and ReWild Long Island’s North Fork chapter are looking for the public’s help planting a pollinator garden at Southold Town Hall in early May, just days after the CAC and the North Fork Environmental Council pair up for a Green Expo May 2 at the Southold Recreation Center. |  Southold Land Preservation Coordinator Lilly McCullough Southold Land Preservation is On a RollOn the heels of a vote in March to preserve 54 acres of land on the outskirts of Greenport, Southold Town is en route this week to preserving a vineyard in Cutchogue and a swath of bayfront property in the Bayview section of Southold. And next on the burner is another proposal to preserve nearly 35 acres on the south side Route 48 in Southold, across from the North Fork Flower Farm, which backs up to a tributary of Hashamomuck Pond. The Southold Town Board voted to go ahead with two land preservation deals — to preserve much of Pellegrini Vineyards and a prime property in the Bayview section of Southold — after no members of the public spoke at hearings held Tuesday, April 7. |
The Business Accelerator
Greenport Launches Fundraising Campaign for Mitchell Park Ice Rink
The Mitchell Park Ice Rink Celebration Committee on Thursday announced the launch of a community-wide fundraising campaign to support construction of a new permanent ice rink in Mitchell Park, as the village’s Business Improvement District asked to be included as an authorized village contact on the project, which has been in the works for more than a year and a half.
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East End
Earth Month Excitement
There’s a heck of a lot going on in celebration of the earth this month, which as you can see from above, is a pretty beautiful place. We’ve collected a smattering of upcoming ways to celebrate Earth Month in the upcoming weeks
North Fork
Theater
Next weekend, the North Fork’s Northeast Stage is launching “The Unseen Woman,” three works by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell, all of which highlight “what happens when you don’t consider women in a situation…..”
On the Air
Talking Local News with NoFo Live
I had a blast talking with Sunita Narma of NoFo Live Friday morning about all that’s great about this place we call home.
UPCOMING EVENTS
 Friday, April 17 Rising Rents, Rising Tides Peconic Landing hosts a panel discussion on how we address the North Fork housing crisis while protecting the environment. |  Saturday, April 18 Southold Fire Department Recruitment Day Learn about the Southold Volunteer Fire Department — ask questions, tour apparatus, try on gear, practice hose handling and more. |  Saturday, April 18 SI Friends of Music Shelter Island Friends of Music continues its 2026 season with a free concert by pianist Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner, whose program will feature works by Debussy, J.S. Bach, Frederic Rzewski, and Schumann. |
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See you next Sunday,
Beth
