06.01.2024 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: Banning gas-powered leaf blowers The Village of Southampton has become the first municipality in Suffolk and Nassau counties to completely ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The process was deliberative and inclusive...
04.28.2024 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: What are you eating? It’s fitting that Suffolk County, with some of the richest soil in the world and still on the New York State’s list of its top agricultural counties (number 4...
04.13.2024 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: Contaminated Plum Can Plum Island, the 843-acre island, a mile-and-a half off Orient Point, be safely preserved as a “national monument” with public access, as is being advocated by a grouping...
03.21.2024 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: Bail-reform battle My first beat as a reporter at the daily Long Island Press was covering cops-and-courts in Suffolk County. Back then, the bail issue was a vexing one in Suffolk,...
03.11.2024 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: County getting serious about water Environmentalist John Turner calls them “13 magic words.” They are 13 words that have been added to a measure likely to be voted on in a countywide referendum in...
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