BEACON RECORD The Village
Mount Sinai • Miller Place • Sound Beach • rocky Point • ShorehaM • Wading river • leiSure country March 12, 2015
volume 30, no. 33
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Historic firehouses exhibit at the PJVC also: Festival of One act Plays at Theatre Three, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ at the SCPa
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Photo by erika Karp
Brookhaven Supervisor ed romaine speaks about his stronger focus on protecting the local environment during his March 9 State of the town address. Below, Brookhaven town Board members and guests listen to romaine.
Romaine shifts focus to the environment Seeking new education commish MP trustees let regents board know what they want to see
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Supervisor advocates for a sustainable town
prudent are not mutually exclusive,” he said Monday at Town In his third State of the Town Hall in Farmingville. address, Town of Brookhaven In the coming weeks, RoSupervisor Ed Romaine went maine said he would be putting green, focusing on making forward an Energy Efficiency Brookhaven a more environ- and Sustainability Initiative, as mentally-friendly place to live. part of a five-year capital plan, The emphasis on creating a with the goal of reducing the more sustainable town devi- town government’s greenhouse ated from past gas emissions addresses in ‘In fact, protecting the by 50 percent which Romaine environment and being over the next (R) focused on fiscally prudent are not five years. In the town’s fisorder to reach cal stability. mutually exclusive.’ the goal, the Romaine said — ED romainE town is looking that while the at three areas: town’s efforts to boost its finan- its buildings and facilities, trafcial standing are far from fin- fic controls and streetlights as ished, there have still been im- well as town vehicles. provements — like ending 2014 The Highway Department with a surplus — and now the has already installed energytown must do its part to address efficient LED traffic lights climate change. throughout much of the town “In fact, protecting the en- and the Department of Genvironment and being fiscally eral Services purchased hybrid By erika karP
vehicles. The town has also created wind, solar and geothermal codes in an effort to promote alternative energy, and has worked to expand its singlestream recycling initiative. Later this year, the town will extend the single-stream pickup to multifamily complexes, allowing those residents
to dispose of plastic and paper together. “It has been estimated that, as a nation, as much as 60 percent of the efforts to achieve environmental sustainability will needed to be addressed here on the local level, reinforcing that message: We should think ROMaINe continued on page a12