12.04.2023 Environment In Orient, a deer hunter films a video of a new East End resident: a coyote They’re not on Shelter Island — yet — but a wild critter is getting closer. On October 19, a deer hunter sitting in a tree stand on a tract of farmland...
11.13.2018 News Ideas for tick control burning going to the town Town Animal Control Officer Beau Payne told the November 8 meeting of the Deer & Tick Committee there are plans that would enable homeowners to burn sections of their...
08.03.2018 News The oyster is their world Last Friday, Islander Kerry Kinney was picking up a new batch of “spat” — tiny oyster seeds — from Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE)’s waterfront site in Southold. She was...
11.27.2017 News Rescuing a regional treasure: Biologists, baymen bringing back Peconic Bay scallops Last week the veil was lifted on a question at the center of the East End’s culture as well as its economy: How many Peconic Bay scallops made it...
01.27.2017 News Hangin’ in the harbor Jim Colligan spotted these harbor seals happily basking in the sun off the Ram Island causeway yesterday.