09.07.2025 Featured Story Multiple levels of government look to preserve Plum Island Efforts to permanently preserve Plum Island stalled in Congress last year, but officials at multiple levels of government have stepped in to try and ensure that the 1.3 square...
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...
03.15.2024 Featured Story Standing up for Plum Island preservation Louise Harrison, the natural area manager for New York- and Connecticut-based nonprofit Save the Sound, testified March 7 before a congressional subcommittee in the nation’s capital about the proposed designation...
04.07.2023 Featured Story Push to preserve Plum Island Like his predecessors, the new representative from New York’s 1st Congressional District has taken an interest in preserving Plum Island. On March 15, Rep. Nick LaLota introduced the Plum...
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