02.28.2014 Environment Cull starts as sharpshooters take to private land After months of debate and a failed lawsuit filed by opponents of the plan, a deer cull kicked off this week across multiple private properties on eastern Long Island, as...
01.24.2014 Health & Environment DEC declares Mattituck Creek OK for shellfishing Local baymen have some more underwater acreage from which to gather clams and oysters this winter. State Department of Environmental Conservation officials announced last week that from Jan. 15...
12.05.2013 Government Legislators lobby for local control over deer North Fork legislators are lobbying the chair of the state’s Environmental Conservation Committee to pass a bill that would have given local municipalities on the East End the authority...
12.05.2013 Health & Environment State updates website with info on 11 local contaminated sites Property owners across the North Fork and beyond now have easy access to information concerning contaminated areas they may – or may not – have known existed in their...
11.13.2013 News DEC: Instagram pics with captured deer gets locals in trouble After posting pictures of themselves on Instagram with a pair of live deer they caught, four local young men who were later caught by Department of Environmental Conservation officers...
09.30.2013 Government Cuomo: State should be involved on Plum Island Governor Andrew Cuomo is calling on the federal government to require a comprehensive environmental cleanup plan for Plum Island and to give the state final review of the Island’s...
09.13.2013 News Locals reflect on dying industry as sound closes to fall lobster harvesting A third-generation lobsterman, Matt DeMaula has patrolled Long Island Sound alongside his father and uncles for more than two decades. When he thinks back to his early days in...
08.24.2013 News Using DNA to curb water pollution and reopen Cutchogue creek complex Members of Southold’s shellfish advisory committee have been researching local creeks to identify specific sources of pollution and fecal bacteria that enter the waterways from septic tanks and stormwater...
07.17.2013 News Air quality warning in effect until 11 p.m. The State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality warning for all of Long Island until 11 p.m. today. Summer heat can lead to the formation of...
05.31.2013 News Weed-killing chemical yanked from sale on Long Island Manufacturers of atrazine, one of the most widely used herbicides in the U.S., are pulling the product off Long Island. Starting next spring, products containing atrazine – an herbicide...