04.13.2024 Columns 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 Environment 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 News 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...
03.26.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The new Cold War As UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last week, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to a hot nuclear war. Guterres declared that Putin’s “raising the alert level of Russian...
02.20.2022 News Plum Island coalition campaigns for national monument The Southold Town Board plans to ask planning staff to write a letter of support for the Preserve Plum Island Coalition, which is campaigning to make Plum Island a...