Watch: Your Voice Matters - Climate Resiliency on the South Fork
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Staff Writer on Nov 5, 2024
In this episode of “Your Voice Matters,” hear from leaders, activists and locals working to secure a more resilient future, including in Montauk and East Hampton. This episode was produced... more
Just in time for the holidays, some spare cash can be found in pockets. For a farmer, this pocket might be from a winter coat laid down years ago. He’d left a few twenties in the breast pocket — it felt like the lotto when he found them later. Anyway, the temperature dropped last week, and another farmer remembered another coat, seen thrown in the corner. Pretty suddenly, as if November was trying to make up for lost time, it rained, thank God, and it got colder. After a three-month dry spell, almost 2 inches of rain came down, and ...
3 Dec 2024 by Marilee Foster
“You’ll get used to it.” I was mumbling that to myself between curse words as I was wading into a 72-degree swimming pool in the basement of a hotel in Vienna. The hotel was once a bank, and its spa is in what was the bank’s vault. They had turned the vault’s door into a window overlooking the pool. People in the spa’s reception could look down at me and read my lips as I said, “Holy s-expletive, this pool is cold!” You might remember, a few columns ago, I coined the word “s-expletive,” because at this family newspaper we ...
by Tracy Grathwohl
In the northwest corner of Suffolk County is the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Its outrageous history is detailed in a forthcoming book “Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance.” The book, by Mark A. Torres, an attorney as well as an author, will be released by The History Press on January 21. Torres also wrote the 2021 book “Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood,” an examination of the plight of migrant farmworkers here, also published by The History Press. It’s the best work I’ve ever read on this subject. Torres is general counsel of Teamsters ...
by Karl Grossman
Since the Shinnecock Nation cleared trees from the Westwoods property in the middle of the night in early February, the town has insisted on an approach of open dialogue and friendly communication with the nation. Since the summer, when the nation brought in large construction vehicles to build a road and dig trenches for massive gas tanks, residents have been asking what’s going on. Responses have reassured residents that the town is working with the nation and that things are okay. Since August of this year, when the town issued a stop-work order, there’s been no enforcement of it. The ...
2 Dec 2024 by Staff Writer
I had the privilege of volunteering at Conscience Point Shellfish for over three years. This experience was instrumental in shaping my marine science career — and it’s deeply disheartening to think that future students might not have the same opportunity. CPS has made invaluable contributions to our community and ecosystem, and it’s frustrating that false claims have been made against their integrity. I first learned about CPS from my neighbor, a Community Supported Agriculture member and oyster enthusiast. As a high school student eager to gain experience in marine science, volunteering with CPS was the perfect fit. Every Saturday morning, ...
by Staff Writer
I support the work of the Conscience Point Shellfish Hatchery and have not seen a degradation of the beauty of the walk to Conscience Point. My grandchildren continue to enjoy the walk to the point, as well as learning about the oyster life cycle at the hatchery and seeing the local wildlife. North Sea Harbor as it was in 1640 is gone forever, but the land owned by the Southampton History Museum and leased by the hatchery can still preserve natural beauty and support oyster farming. The importance of the filter feeding of the oysters is widely recognized as critically ...
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May I begin by saying that my response to yet another column by Carlos Sandoval [“For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Vistas, Opinion, November 28] is not meant as a personal attack but as a reaction to the platform this paper gives to its liberal columnists and the lack of same to those of us who would enjoy an alternative point of view. So, Mr. Sandoval: You begin with the liberal media’s delusional obsession with a Donald Trump dictatorship and his campaign promise to return countless illegal border crashers to their former countries. The nation made its choice in our recent ...
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Staff Writer on Nov 5, 2024