Suffolk County Democrats
The East End trailers that have housed homeless sex offenders and sparked community complaints will be shut down by Tuesday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced.
Twenty-six men remaining at the Riverside and Westhampton facilities will be moved to motels and homeless shelters throughout the county -- no more than one per location, Bellone said Friday at Riverhead Town Hall, where he received applause from local officials...read more
It's time to get on the bus, Gus.
Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman announced this week that Sunday and holiday bus service will begin again on the East End with the holiday weekend.
The Sunday service will run from Memorial Day weekend until October 13, Columbus Day weekend.
The program was successful for the past two years, with numbers indicating a healthy ridership, and is back for another season.
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Suffolk County late Thursday began relocating homeless sex offenders from East End trailers that have housed them for years, with the aim of closing the facilities within days.
Hours after County Executive Steve Bellone held a news conference to announce eight arrests under a new law requiring closer monitoring of all registered sex offenders, aides confirmed that some of about 40 homeless offenders had been moved to shelters...read more
Smithtown Democrats have picked a former county judge along with a longtime party activist to run for town board in November.
Adam Halpern, a prosecutor in Suffolk County's Traffic and Parking Violations Agency and a former 4th District County Court judge, and activist Richard Macellaro, a retired home health care administrator, have been named to challenge Republican councilmen Kevin Malloy and Thomas McCarthy.
Halpern, 53, of...read more
Suffolk Democrats Monday night named William J. Lindsay, the son of the term-limited presiding officer of the Suffolk Legislature, to succeed his father, but left the nominations for four other legislative seats open for now.
The convention, held at the IBEW Local 25 hall in Hauppauge, also deferred a decision on a six-way battle for the North Fork's 2nd District Assembly seat nomination, so town committees, meeting during the next 10...read more
Suffolk officials say they hope to begin moving homeless sex offenders out of trailers on the East End within several weeks, the first indication of progress in implementing an emergency monitoring plan passed nearly four months ago.
The Community Protection Act, drafted by County Executive Steve Bellone and approved unanimously by the county legislature Feb. 5, called for relocating about 40 homeless male sex offenders now living in...read more