The Kings Park Community Association recently received a $5,000 donation from a Charter Oaks resident to help fund a new stone wall entrance sign at the corner of Twins Oaks Drive and Sunken Meadow Road.

In order to evade two court orders to return $183.5 million to the sewer fund and pilfer an additional $15 million from its reserves ($198.5 million total), Mr. Bellone put a deceptively worded proposition on the ballot in 2020 (pictured above), which voters unwittingly and narrowly approved. Now, because the sewer fund has been depleted by Mr. Bellone, the county is illegally increasing sewer taxes and fees 452% just before the district’s expansion to downtown Kings Park gets underway.

This spring, at the tail end of a pandemic, Suffolk County adopted a plan to raise sewer rates in our community 452% over what is legally permissible. The county claims we have been underpaying for sewer services ever since the Kings Park State Hospital closed in 1996, and they now want us to pay the difference.

Legislation to help expand sewers to Main Street in Kings Park passed the State Senate and Assembly on May 30th, 2019 but still awaits Governor Cuomo’s signature.

After meeting with Nissequogue River State Park (NRSP) Foundation representatives, State Assemblyman Steve Englebright agreed to sponsor legislation to create the park’s Master Plan.

A 27-acre privately owned landfill on Old Northport Road in Kings Park, which was once used by the Town of Smithown for their municipal waste and later became a golf driving range until 2017, is now home to a 4 megawatt solar farm that can power up to 1,000 homes.

Why would anyone oppose the capping of a toxic landfill and the protection of our drinking water? The answer is simply – politics.

For their endless generosity and commitment to improving the Nissequogue River State Park and bettering the lives of all Long Islanders, the Nissequogue River State Park Foundation will honor Charles & Helen Reichert on Thursday, October 10th.