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Asharoken Village Hall
1 Asharoken Avenue
Asharoken, NY 11768
631-261-7098
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Message from Asharoken Mayor Greg Letica:
September 6, 2024
Dear Neighbors:
At the September 3 Board of Trustees meeting, Phil Cuiffo from the Eaton's Neck Community Watch Group presented the Asharoken Police Department with a Public Service award in recognition of all of the assistance that the APD provides our neighbors in Eaton's Neck. Village Officer in Charge Ray Mahdesian accepted the award on behalf of the police department.
I thank Senator Mario Mattera and Assemblyman Keith Brown for their ongoing support to restore the beach and seawall area. The Village is committed to looking at all options to ensure that Asharoken Avenue can always be passable. Rebuilding the erosion protection structure and the beach is the primary plan but there are others as well. Senator Mattera has suggested moving the road away from the seawall and Assemblyman Brown has offered the concept of a breakwater. The breakwater was modeled by Suffolk Science Fair winner eight-year-old Matthew Pokorny. His model showed how much wave energy could be dissipated by a breakwater. These ideas are in very early conceptual stages and as more information becomes available, I will let you know.
In an ongoing effort to keep you informed of what happened in August, here is my Mayor's Report from the Board meeting:
To view the full schedule of Board of Trustees meetings, click on "Government" above, then "Trustees Meetings" or
click here.
Except as otherwise noted, all regular Board of Trustees meetings are held at 6:30pm at Asharoken Village Hall, 1 Asharoken Avenue, Asharoken, NY. Special/Work Session meetings are generally held in the afternoon. All meetings are open to the public.
July, August 2024 Meeting Minutes
The following meeting minutes of the Asharoken Board of Trustees are now online:
Minutes are posted on this website as they become available.
Contact the Village Clerk if you have any questions.
Archived minutes, as well as the full Board of Trustees meeting schedule, can be found by clicking on "Government" above, then "Trustees Meetings" or
click here.
Message from Asharoken Mayor Greg Letica:
August 29, 2024
Dear Neighbors:
Linda and I wish you a very happy Labor Day weekend. Although this is the unofficial end of summer there will be many more terrific beach days to come.
Schools open next week. Please be extra cautious when driving, there will be children and buses on the road.
Best Regards,
Mayor Dr. Gregory Letica
Message from Asharoken Mayor Greg Letica:
August 23, 2024
Dear Neighbors:
Please remember that Village code requires that you walk your dog on a leash and clean up any waste. Thanks for your cooperation.
Preliminary work on the seawall/beach restoration engineering work has begun. Surveying has been completed and this week borings to a depth of forty feet were done to determine the soil structure. On August 23rd, the Village met with its engineering firm, GEI, and Senator Mario Mattera and Assemblyman Keith Brown.
In the aftermath of the loss of Harbor Road and the Mill Pond in Stony Brook, I wrote a second letter to Governor Hochul requesting aid to fix the seawall. I stressed that we can not let what happened in Stony Brook occur in Asharoken.
National Grid has begun final repair to two access holes on Asharoken Avenue. In the next few weeks, there may be short traffic delays in the work zone. Please drive carefully. The Village did a shoulder cutback of vegetation on Bevin Road.
Congratulations to the Village Photographer Dee Lento who was awarded the Grand Prize in the Nature Category from the Tiffen Sponsored Gurwin Photo Contest. Her work never ceases to amaze me.
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Last Sunday I found a juvenile White Ibis sitting on the utility wires along the Duck Island causeway. This is a bird I had never seen in the Village and brings the all time species total to 185. All of the Osprey chicks have finally begun flying!
And today, I found a Chestnut-sided Warbler, which makes 100 species spotted in 2024.
Wishing you a great weekend!
Mayor Dr. Gregory Letica
Village Photographer Awarded Grand Prize
Photo: Dee Lento
One Flew over the Cormorant's Nest
Village Photographer
Photo: Dee Lento
and Asharoken resident Dee Lento has been awarded the Grand Prize in the nature category of the 31st Annual Gurwin Photo Contest, one of Long Island's premier photo competitions.
The contest is made possible each year by long-time sponsor The Tiffen Company. Nearly 1,000 submissions are received from across the globe and are judged by a panel of professional photographers for clarity, composition, and subject matter.
Entitled "One Flew over the Cormorant's Nest," Dee captured this astounding photo while riding in a Zodiac pontoon boat in the waters of Patagonia, south of the town of Ushuaia in Tierra Del Fuego.
Dee declared her voyage "The trip of a lifetime!" Congratulations on your winning photograph, Dee!
Message from Asharoken Mayor Greg Letica:
August 9, 2024
Dear Neighbors:
Last week Newsday reported that New York State awarded the Village of Baxter Estates, in Nassau County, 7.7 million dollars to prevent Manhasset Bay from flooding Shore Road. After reading the article and realizing the similarities between their problem and the Village's seawall issues I decided to write to Governor Hochul requesting similar funding for Asharoken:
Lastly, it appears that the Village has five Osprey chicks. Remarkably, only two have flown off the nest to date. This is unusually late. In previous years all of the chicks have fledged by the end of July.
Today we are in store for some windy and stormy weather thanks to the remnants of Hurricane Debby, but a nice weekend is coming up. Enjoy.
Mayor Dr. Gregory Letica
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