Volunteers team up to help rehab Witch’s Hat in Aquebogue
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Volunteers from Jamesport landscape company Kaiser Maintenance will clear some trees surrounding The Witch’s Hat on Main Road in Aquebogue Thursday. The town’s landmarks...
View ArticleVolunteers clean up at ‘Witch’s Hat’
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Volunteers with the community advocacy group Save Main Road work on restoring the Witch’s Hat in Aquebogue Saturday afternoon. Just in time for Halloween, Aquebogue’s historic...
View ArticleAd for Village at Jamesport site highlights ‘valuable sand deposits’
The Village at Jamesport is proposed for this property just west of the hamlet’s business district. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) A 44-acre Jamesport property that has been the subject of a...
View ArticleGuest Column: This 800-pound gorilla needs a leash
FILE PHOTO | The state capitol in Albany. “Anywhere he wants to.” That’s the punch line of the ancient joke about where an 800 -pound gorilla sits. In our neighborhood, the big bully is Agriculture...
View ArticleHistoric corridor meeting Thursday night at Jamesport Meeting House
Jamesport Meeting House. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) There will be a meeting Thursday at Jamesport Meeting House from 7 to 8 p.m. to discuss a proposal to create a Main Road National Register...
View ArticleWitch’s Hat renovation project completed in Aquebogue
Witch’s Hat restoration project manager Cliff Baldwin (left), Save Main Road ‘s Larry Simms and Richard Wines, chairman of Riverhead’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. (Credit: Katharine Schroeder)...
View ArticleNew developer purchases Jamesport land for $5M
Two Jamesport properties comprising 43 acres that had been the focus of two controversial development proposals — both of which eventually fell by the wayside — were recently sold to a...
View ArticleDeveloper files same controversial plan for Jamesport site
The latest proposal to develop property on Main Road in Jamesport doesn’t stray from the previous owner’s controversial commercial building plans. TDG Jamesport Owner, a Woodbury real estate...
View ArticleCivic groups discuss boycotts at proposed development sites
A coalition of civic organizations is collecting signatures on a petition in which residents vow to boycott new commercial projects being proposed for the Jamesport and Aquebogue areas unless the...
View ArticleTwo Jamesport projects should be studied together, civic groups argue
Leaders of four civic and environmental organizations have sent a letter to Riverhead Town Board members asking that the town require two large development projects in Jamesport to have their...
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