Quogue Village to Host Public Hearing on Atlantic Dredging Project

A controversial multi-million dollar proposal by the Village of Quogue to dredge sand from the ocean bottom and place it along the entire 2.7-mile length of the village’s oceanfront will be up for public hearing next Monday evening.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has arranged the public hearing, which will be held in the Quogue Village Hall on Aug. 10 at 6 p.m. A state-appointed judge is slated to preside.

The village has asked the DEC to approve its plans to use either hydraulic cutterhead or hopper dredge equipment to excavate a 100-acre area of ocean bottom several thousand feet off the Quogue oceanfront, placing 1.1 million cubic yards of sand along the village’s oceanfront. The project is slated to cost nearly $15 million, to be paid for through increased property taxes for village residents. Read More...

Pussy Riot Activitst Tells Her Story at The Watermill Center

When Russian artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova was a girl, she wanted to be an astronomer and “know how the universe is established.” When she was a teenager, she wanted to be a journalist, and wrote newspaper articles about the bad environmental conditions in the city where she was raised in Siberia. By the time she was in college, she’d decided instead to become a philosopher. But then, art came into her life. Read more...

Music For Montauk Hosts First Summer Festival

Lilah Gosman, a Montauk native who has worked in New York City as a musician and educator, and her husband, Miloš Repický, a pianist and conductor with the Metropolitan Opera, have taken over the reigns heading Music for Montauk. This coming week, they're planning their first ever Summer Series, a series of concerts ranging from a family-friendly rendition of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals to tango, classical guitar, and an evening of American selections. Read More...

Cost Escalation Creates Questions For Future of Peconic River Bridge

The folks at Southampton Town who hope to build a pedestrian bridge from a planned county park in Riverside across the Peconic River to Riverhead’s riverfront boardwalk by the Long Island Aquarium got a bit of sticker shock when they took a look at some conceptual ideas for the project in July. They had been expecting the project to cost about $1.5 million, but two designs provided by town consultants AECOM pinned the project at between $3.3 and $3.9 million Read More....

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