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Town of Greenport, NY, August 26, 2026 — Last night's Planning Board meeting at Greenport's town hall turned into a surprisingly testy affair as both applicants and Planning Board members raised their voices in frustration on several occasions. The ordinarily mild-mannered Planning Board engineer Ray Jurkowski found himself at the center of most of these kerfuffles although not always for faults of his own. Early into the meeting, AnimalKind, proposing to build a new feline r

It appears as if Building Inspector Albert Eldridge was paid more than the town board said he was going to earn...

I visited the Stuyvesant Climate Smart Task Force and met a group of dogged people who achieved a lot despite some administrative initial pushback. Now, Greenport just needs to copy them.

In the retrospective, I'll sum up what I've been focusing on in the week prior and provide an outlook for the coming week. While many in Greenport are currently in a waiting loop hoping that a particular NY state law enforcement agency makes a surprise appearance at our town hall, throughout the past week I've been looking more closely at the aftermath of the July 29 rain event. On Tuesday, I visited Patricia Burt, who was at last week's Greenport Town Board workshop to give

On Tuesday, August 11th, we took a quick trip north and visited Stockport's Town Board Meeting to get a sense of how our neighbor is doing and specifically, if the rain on July 29th was as devastating as it was in Greenport. What we've learned is that the Town of Stockport is ahead of Greenport in nearly every respect. Town Supervisor Matt Murell ran a tight ship and efficiently breezed through the agenda. He did not appear to fear public comments either as he opened up the f

This is the second article on Greenport's August town board meeting which happened on Wednesday, August 5th. We reported on the workshop portion earlier where we hinted at some extraordinary things that would unfold later in that meeting. Debbie Mausolf One Vote Closer to Town Clerk Appointment As indicated in the first article, Supervisor Eldridge appeared to have made it through the workshop in one piece. She was relatively quiet throughout and had deferred to James Dolan

It was always expected that Wednesday's Greenport Town Board Workshop and Meeting, held on August 5th, might become a volatile affair. After last week's cataclysmic rain, followed by the revelation that Hudson Valley Fisheries was going to shut down and a Greenport police officer who crashed a police vehicle in her attempt to apprehend a shop-lifter while being under the influence of alcohol, there was no shortage of topics to discuss. Those who expected spectacle got what th

Hudson Valley Fisheries just announced they are going to cease their operations in a post on their website: Thank you for your support of Hudson Valley Fisheries. It is with great regret that we announce we will be ceasing operations. Since 2018, we have been proud to serve customers throughout New York City, the Hudson Valley, and across the United States with premium, sustainably raised steelhead trout in both fresh and smoked formats and more recently in single-ingredient

Less than a year ago, the Town of Greenport appeared to be thriving. Like any other municipality in the county, it had its share of infrastructure challenges—a water and sewage system in need of investment or the demand for a new Highway Department garage—but residents rested assured that Town Supervisor Kathy Eldridge and the town board were actively managing these issues. Because there appeared to be no cause for alarm, town meetings were routinely sparse and poorly attende