08.14.2019 Government Deer & Tick budget won’t eliminate 4-poster use The Deer & Tick Committee won’t be recommending changes in its priorities when it comes to budgeting for 2020, putting considerably more money into supporting its 4-poster program than...
06.11.2019 News Signs point to a decreasing deer herd “It looks like we’re going in the right direction,” Animal Control Officer Beau Payne told the Deer & Tick Committee at its June 5 meeting, speaking about reducing the...
05.07.2019 News DEC advises strategy change on 4-poster use A strong statement from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) calls for rethinking the strategy of deploying 4-poster units to combat ticks, which, the agency says,...
04.08.2019 News Burning up in smoke at Deer & Tick meeting A proposal to have the town begin burning open spaces for ticks was rejected by the Deer and Tick Committee at an April 3 meeting.
03.22.2019 Island Profiles Island Profile: Bill Zitek, beloved vet and volunteer When Bill Zitek was growing up in New Rochelle, New York, a man named William Rodman Pell II came from Suffolk County every June to receive a fatted calf...