BACK IN BUSINESS: Once the home of The GAP clothing store and before that the Northport 5 & 10, the building at 83 Main Street has been vacant since 2007. Work began last week to ready the building for a new tenant. Adelaide Byers Realty on Main Street is presently accepting proposals from prospective tenants.

After wending its way through the application process, the owner of the building at 83 Main Street, Northport, which once housed The GAP, has begun to gut the building in pursuit of a new tenant.

The building is owned by Farid Investments, LLC, a limited liability partnership formed in Manhattan September 5, 2003 by Farid Arai. Real Estate agents Susan Salzmann and Terry White, of Adelaide Byers Realtors, which is located next door to The GAP building, are the agents representing the building owner in its pursuit to find a tenant.

By DAVID AMBRO

In an effort to remove more than 12,000 roadside double wood utility poles, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works (DPW) is seeking participation of Suffolk’s ten towns to take action against the utility companies.

According to DPW Commissioner Gilbert Anderson, a double wood utility pole is created when LIPA installs a new pole directly adjacent to a damaged or old pole that needs replacement. LIPA transfers its electric lines to the new pole and notifies the other utilities to transfer telephone, television and computer lines to the new pole.

By DAVID AMBRO

A scathing NYPIRG report that identified 103,805 violations related to campaign financial disclosure reports filed with the New York State Board of Elections in Albany, which drew an immediate response from the governor Tuesday, May 7, hits close to home.

Named in the report is the campaign committee of Huntington Highway Superintendent William Naughton, the Suffolk County Conservative Chairman’s Club and the campaign committee of Northport Village Trustee Thomas Kehoe.

The NYPIRG report examines campaign financial disclosure reports submitted to the New York State Board of Elections between January 2011 and January 2013, all of which are available to the public electronically on the board’s website, elections.ny.gov. Of the 103,805 outstanding violations cited in the report, the first category examined are the 278 incidents in which corporations donated more than the legal limit of $5,000 in a year.