The majority of the members on the Brookhaven Town Council would apparently prefer that the public not attend Town meetings. They would also prefer that one of the council members who represents Lake Ronkonkoma and Farmingville not attend Town meetings either.Read more...

In case you missed it, we were able to get Newsday to publish a story about our battle with Commerce Bank on Sunday, August 10th in the LI Life section.Read more...

If the mailing label on the back of your newsletter is asking you to renew your membership, then your dues for 2009 are overdue. Contact the Membership Chair, at membership@lakeronkonkomacivic.org, to renew your membership. Your participation (and your money) keeps the Fourth Wave in motion!

Tired of those unsightly signs you see on utility poles and along public streets? They are nothing but visual clutter advertising everything from weight-loss to home repairs. Well, as long as they’re not on private property, feel free to rip them down, pull them up, and throw them out, because those signs are illegal. You cannot even obtain a permit to post that type of sign.
During our monthly cleanups we usually take them down. The only exception we consider are signs for local yard sales. As long as the date on the sign hasn’t passed, we’ll leave them in place, but if they’ve expired, or there is no date, in the trash they go.

Suffolk County has activated a hotline for residents to report certain types of dead birds, which may be infected with West Nile virus. Read more...

Has it been a year already? When you are a Civic member, time flies! And it’s time once again to renew your membership. Renewing your membership on time helps to save your Membership Committee the time and effort it puts into interrupting the things you enjoy with those phone calls that gently remind you to renew.
It also saves the Civic money; printing those customized blue renewal forms isn’t cheap you know.Read more...

Shockingly, on March 24, 2008 the Town of Brookhaven Planning Board approved the site plan for a Commerce Bank to be constructed on Portion Road. Despite the Planning Board’s recognition that Commerce Bank’s site plan was “an ill-conceived project for this particular parcel of land,” six of the seven Planning Board members voted to approve the plan.Read more...

You have probably driven past it countless times without giving it a second thought, and yet during the Portion Road Visioning, in October of 2004, hundreds of you had identified this property as a desirable location for a memorial park. Now it may disappear. Commerce Bank has decided to cut down all of the trees and remove the hill to completely flatten the site, and construct a bank with a multi-lane drive-thru adjacent to the homes on the south side of the property. But you can help prevent this from happening.
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