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01.16.2024 Featured Story

Battling against the tide: Town accomplishments, and calling for more

Record heat waves followed by extreme storms. Driving rain in 18-hour stretches and destructive winds. Towering-high tides overwhelming the land. Wades and Crescent beaches gone. Marshes and creeks only...

12.11.2023 Featured Story

Shelter Island Deer & Tick Committee gets update: A new hunter’s aid is sought

Twenty-seven Island hunters, in the first two months of the recreational hunt — through the end of November — have taken 65 deer. Bay Constable Beau Payne told the...

11.08.2023 Featured Story

Councilman campaigns for clean water program

“Mother Nature is winning the battle,” Councilman Jim Colligan told the Town Board about seizing the initiative to address climate change. He was speaking at the Oct. 31 work...

08.10.2023 Featured Story

Estuary program asks $14,450 for support: Would be annual contribution for three years

A Peconic Estuary Partnership (PEP) representative brought a status report to the Town Board at Tuesday’s work session on projects funded by the five East End towns and a...

06.01.2023 Featured Story

Councilman sounds alarm on climate change: Negative impacts faster here than rest of state

Climate change is accelerating on Long Island at a faster rate than in any other part of New York State. That was the urgent message voiced by Joyce Novak,...

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