{"id":1173,"date":"2012-04-01T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleislandcivic.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2012-04-01T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T15:14:14","slug":"councilwoman-connie-kepert-visits-mica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Councilwoman Connie Kepert Visits MICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brookhaven.org\/portals\/0\/elected_officials\/Island%20Civic%20Association%20Meeting%203-12.jpg\" alt=\"Island Civic Association Meeting\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Pictured are Middle Island Civic Association president Tom Talbot  (left), first vice president Gail Lynch-Bailey (right) and Councilwoman  Connie Kepert (center). <\/em><\/div>\n<p>Councilwoman  Connie Kepert attended the Middle Island Civic Association Meeting on  March 15, 2012 where she spoke about some of the projects and  improvements she has been working on in the community. In her  presentation, the Councilwoman announced that the construction of the  roundabout on Whiskey Road is expected to start the week of the March  26, and should be completed by the end of the summer. The roundabout is  being constructed in response to several accidents which occurred at the  intersection of Miller Place Yaphank Road and Whiskey Road, one of  which involved a fatality. Roundabouts are safer than signal-controlled  intersections and substantially reduce the incidence of crashes because  they slow the flow of vehicles and eliminate right-angle collisions.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Kepert updated the Civic on the progress of the Bartlett  Pond Park, a project which Middle Island Civic Association\u2019s Gail  Lynch-Bailey has been working hard on. Park improvements include the  removal of invasive species, refurbishment of the historical  schoolhouse, and the planting of a community garden. All are hopeful  that needed renovations will occur prior to the dedication ceremony for  the memorials which will take place at Bartlett Pond Park on Saturday,  June 16, 2012 at 11am.  The erection of the Longwood Veterans\u2019 Walk  monuments honoring hometown heroes, were funded by grant money obtained  by the Councilwoman from the Caithness project.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Kepert also spoke about several town wide initiatives which  she sponsored including the Sign Code amendment and a resolution which  she sponsored to convert from plastic to paper bags for the Town of  Brookhaven yard waste collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are Middle Island Civic Association president Tom Talbot (left), first vice president Gail Lynch-Bailey (right) and Councilwoman Connie Kepert (center). Councilwoman Connie Kepert attended the Middle Island Civic Association Meeting on March 15, 2012 where she spoke about some of the projects and improvements she has been working on in the community. In her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s453969799.onlinehome.us\/mica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}