
JADE ECKARDT PHOTO
Signs painted by 2017’s Derby competitor vying to get their art on this year’s Derby T-shirts line the road in front of Binder Pools.
Rig up your poles kids, because the Annual Shelter Island Snapper Derby is back!
JADE ECKARDT PHOTO
Signs painted by 2017’s Derby competitor vying to get their art on this year’s Derby T-shirts line the road in front of Binder Pools.
Rig up your poles kids, because the Annual Shelter Island Snapper Derby is back!
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO
The Peconic Estuary Program is seeking the public’s input on its Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan, which hasn’t seen updates since it was approved in 2001.
The CCMP is the blueprint for how the program focuses its resources to protect and restore the estuary, which stretches east from the headwaters of the Peconic River and includes several bays, ending at Block Island Sound. (more…)
CHARLES TUMINO GRAPHIC
BY RICHARD AMPER
On April 2, East Enders will be celebrating the Community Preservation Fund’s having generated more than a billion dollars and preserved more than 10,000 acres of open space and farmland.
Approved by voters in 1999, the CPF uses a small tax on real estate purchases to preserve land and protect water. It is arguably the most successful land preservation program in the country. (more…)