Town Notebook: Station Development on the Agenda

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The latest plan for revitalizing Huntington Station will be the big item on the agenda when the Town Board meets Tuesday afternoon.

Renaissance Downtowns, the Plainview firm serving as master developer for the area, will present plans based on ideas solicited from the community over the last year.

The revitalization map covers from High Street south to 11th Street along New York Avenue. Plans call for a hotel, mixed-use properties, a cleaners and other commercial and residential uses. The goal is to bring back a community targeted for urban renewal in the 1960s where commercial properties were torn down but not rebuilt.

The board meets at 2 p.m. at Town Hall.

Safe Boating Week

Huntington will soon be the scene of numerous  activities designed to head off tragedy and make the waters safer. While the official Safe Boating Week runs from May 18-24, classes kick off May 13. The Greater Huntington Council of Yacht & Boating Clubs, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Neptune Sail and Power Squadron and the Town of Huntington are sponsoring the program.
Cook Running for SupervisorCouncilman Gene Cook announced last week that he plans to run for town supervisor, taking on the long-serving incumbent Frank Petrone. Cook, an independent, was elected in 2011. Petrone, a Democrat, has served as supervisor since 1993.

Celebrating Waterfront Conservation

Assemb. Chad Lupinacci (R-Huntington Station) recently joined the North Shore Land Alliance, the Peconic Land Trust and ExxonMobil to celebrate the conservation and restoration of an eight-acre waterfront site on Shore Road in Cold Spring Harbor.

The property is part of the Cold Spring Harbor/Oyster Bay estuary, one of the 10 most endangered estuaries in America.

Welcoming South Huntington STEM

Councilmen Mark Mayoka and Susan Berland, Assemb. Chad Lupinacci, R-Huntington Station, were among those participating in the ribbon-cutting Friday for the new Silas Wood Career Academy, with its focus on science, technology, engineering and math.

The Long Island STEM Hub selects Silas Wood 6th Grade Center as the first middle school STEM Career Academy on Long Island.

Praise for New Key Club Councilwoman Susan A. Berland spoke before an auditorium of philanthropic high school students, parents and members of the Kiwanis Club of Huntington last recently to commemorate the chartering of the newest chapter of Key Club International at Harborfields High School.

Berland encouraged each member to turn their focus outward and hone their charitable spirit as community leaders.