The Port Times Record - March 19, 2015

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The Port TIMES RECORD PORT JEFFERSON • BELLE TERRE • PORT JEFFERSON STATION • TERRYVILLE

Volume 28, No. 16

Hop into spring at Theatre Three

Also: Irish Step Dancing at CSH Library, BNL Science Bowl winners

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March 19, 2015

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A hole lot of trouble Photo from Dawn Andolfi

Winter has worn down our local roads, opening up caverns in the asphalt for our cars to navigate, like the one above on Woodhull Avenue in Port Jefferson Station, in which a young boy stands to demonstrate its size. The persistent cold and ice have made the potholes worse, but help is on the way. Read the full story on page A11.

Mute swans get last word

From the Highlands to parkland BY ELANA GLOWATZ

State revises plan to reduce population of pesky birds

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Port Jefferson Village took a step Monday to preserve 6 acres of open space near the Highlands at Port Jefferson condos.

Open space advocates can breathe a sigh of relief — the grassy 6-acre parcel near the Highlands at Port Jefferson condos has been declared parkland. Concerned residents have been working for a few years to preserve the village-owned land, along Highlands Boulevard in upper Port, even starting a petition in early 2012. Kathleen Riley, the most visible of the local advocates, at one point was standing outside the Port Jefferson library every day to collect John Hancocks. “We want to maintain this now to preserve it for generations,” Riley, a retired teacher, said at the time. She did not return a call for comment on the parcel’s new parkland designation, which

the Port Jefferson Village Board of Trustees approved at their meeting on Monday. The village has owned the 6 acres for many years — local businessman John McNamara gave the land to the public when he developed the Highlands condos in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally, under a 1986 declaration of covenants and restrictions, the plan was to build three swimming pools and a bathhouse on the land. The next year, those restrictions were removed and McNamara gave the village $987,000 to develop the land at a later date. While that money was deposited in a fund specifically for recreational purposes on that parcel, previous village boards chipped away at the sum over time and it is now gone. PARKLAND continued on page A12


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