The mission of Southold’s Office of Emergency Management is to help prevent, prepare, respond to, restore services, recover from and mitigate the effects of any natural or man-made disaster impacting our Town.
Orient Emergency Management Committee would like to keep the residents of Orient informed about the different methods of communication and notifications during emergency events used by Southold Township and Suffolk County as well as programs offered to our special needs residents.
The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first national drinking water standard for “forever chemicals” that are dangerous to human health. The move could radically affect drinking water for nearly everyone in the United States.
The town code includes regulations about many things that affect us including short-term rentals; building size and construction, noise; our visible environment including signs, lighting and dark skies; RV, trailer and boat storage; landscaping and dumpsters. Code compliance and enforcement (or lack of it) often comes up in our community meetings. It impacts many of the things that recent surveys say we value. Learn how code enforcement works and some ways it might be improved, and your role in ensuring compliance and enforcement.
The Orient Association had its annual membership meeting on May 27, 2023 starting at 9:30a in Poquatuck Hall. President Barbara Friedman reviewed the accomplishments of, and issue being addressed by the Orient Association over the past year and our prospective plans going forward.