Long Island Water Warriors Take Their Plea to Albany
Last year, a consortium of environmental groups here formed the Long Island Clean Water Partnership in response to a series of reports on the worsening quality of Long Island’s drinking and surface waters.
This week, the group launched a new website and took a trip to Albany to try to get support from state legislators for the new Long Island Clean Water Protection Bill, which was sent to the Legislature’s committees on environmental conservation for review on Jan. 8. Read more...
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Mattituck Inlet Dredging to Begin Next Week
Dredging season on Long Island ended on January 15, with the start of the winter flounder spawning season, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received an extension from the state DEC to dredge Mattituck Inlet beginning Jan. 21. Southold Town Attorney Martin Finnegan told the Southold Town Board at Tuesday morning’s work session that Port Jefferson-based Village Dock, Inc., which won the Army Corps contract, will mobilize their equipment this week and work “24-7″ to dredge the inlet, finishing on Feb. 28. Read more...
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USDA Hunt Spawns Media Circus
There were tripods to trip over and telephoto lenses to dodge, television reporters with bulky microphones running around asking people to spell their names, and the front entrance to the building became News 12′s private interview booth at Southold Town’s Peconic Lane Recreation Center last night.
They were all there to hear what Southolders have been hearing at similar meetings that have garnered far less media attention over the years: People here are fed up with deer. Read more...
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Winter Farmers Market Comes to Riverhead
No vegetables grow on the East End’s fields in winter, but livestock farmers and bakers and makers of bottled local goods still have plenty of bounty to share with the community. Chicken grower Holly Browder of Browders Birds in Mattituck has rounded up a crew of her fellow farmers and purveyors to open up an indoor market at the former Swezey’s Department Store at 117 East Main Street beginning Feb. 1. Read more...
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DEC Hatches Plan to Kill Mute Swans
While the sight of swans swimming peacefully in pairs that mate for life attracts romantics throughout the East End, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation doesn’t see anything romantic about them. The DEC announced a draft plan last Thursday to kill all of New York’s free-ranging mute swans, the type of swan most commonly seen on Long Island, by 2025. Read more...
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Martin Luther King Celebrations Abound
Just more than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, the annual Day of Service first organized by President Obama’s administration on Dr. King’s birthday in 2009, includes just a few events on the East End. • As part of the Day of Service, Riverhead’s First Congregational Church is asking people to help out with its soup kitchen on Monday, Westhampton BOCES is looking for mentors and Bidawee in Westhampton is looking for pet foster parents. Read more... |
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