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Sound Beach is Not Being 'Well Served;' Civic Cancels Monday Meeting

With many roads still not plowed, civic cancels Meet the Candidates night.

Two days after Brookhaven Town highway crews started battling Sound Beach roads are still too unsafe for travel, according to the local civic group president.

Sound Beach has been hit particularly hard by the storm, and many of the roads in the area have yet to be plowed even as of Monday.

On Sunday afternoon, Patch asked readers if their roads had been cleared. Readers commented into Monday afternoon listing roads along the north shore they said had yet to be touched. 

"Sound Beach (I can't say much about the rest of Brookhaven) is not being been well served during this storm," Civic President Bea Ruberto told Patch via email. "There are still many streets that haven't seen a snow plow and many that have are now single lanes."

A Meet the Candidates night for the Town of Brookhaven Highway Superintendent, set to be hosted by the civic Monday, has been cancelled. The meeting, which was to be held at the Sound Beach Fire House, was supposed to be attended by candidates Assemblyman Daniel Losquadro and Councilwoman Kathleen Walsh.

The area has many narrow, hilly streets, which have been hard to get to and maintain with the sheer amount of snow this storm brought.

"I've heard that partly this is because of the narrow streets in our area and the fact that many of the smaller vehicles can't handle this much snow," Ruberto said. "However, whereas in the past often trucks would start shoveling early on during a storm, this wasn't the case now. Most areas didn't see any trucks the first night. Maybe, if they had started plowing right away, a little at a time, then even the smaller trucks would have worked."

To the west, members of the as of Sunday afternoon, intending to send the list to Acting Highway Superintendent Michael Murphy.

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Janet May 22, 2013 at 04:52 pm
Bravo MP Majority, very well said.Teachers are the most protected job on the planet. Now if theyRead More could only earn that money by producing results in the classrooms like they used to. But I also blame the absent NO vote. They need to be sent a message-we need a majority no vote but that will never happen. Glad I am out of here in 2 years. Can't imagine trying to live here and pay these taxes on social security and my 401K that tanked in 2008 while I was making up the teachers loss on their pension and paying my health insurance & theirs at the same time. So boo hoo teachers you have to spend money on the kids while I spend money on you.
MP Majority May 17, 2013 at 01:41 pm
Spoken like a true teacher. Did you know that the average school teacher is only paying 15% of theRead More actual cost of health care premiums for themselves and their families, when Medical healthcare insurance premiums are rising at an alarming 17% per annum? Do you realize that teachers are paid an additional stipend if they work more than 3 consecutive periods in a day? Are you aware that teacher pensions were protected during the stock market crash of 2008, when the average person's 401K was totally at risk? Perhaps if teachers realized how good they have it - look at the BIG picture and outside of their bubble - then they would complain less. Oh and yes, we need our loftily-paid Administrators to kick in some of the salaries, to help pay for stuff. Hard to believe the school districts' mantras that "it's all for the kids".