05.01.2025 Outdoors Celebrate ‘I Love My Park Day’ on the North Fork Saturday, May 3, is I Love My Park Day, New York State’s largest single-day volunteer event, and you can spend it giving back to your choice of the North...
04.04.2024 Environment Where to watch Monday’s solar eclipse On Monday, April 8 the moon will perfectly align with the sun, casting a massive shadow across the Earth. And although such solar eclipses occur at least twice each...
03.26.2024 Community Photos: 2024 Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park “Pure joy” is how organizer Suzanne Horton described the scene of the annual Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park on Sunday, March 24. Roughly 10,000 eggs were...
03.18.2024 Community Annual Spring Egg Hunt at Orient Beach State Park returns on March 23 What started out as a small Easter egg hunt has transformed into a massive undertaking, with roughly 10,000 eggs scattered across Orient Beach State Park annually for hundreds of...
08.30.2023 Environment Local state parks to stay open for super blue moon and Saturn viewing Super blue moon watchers can see it and Saturn at local state parks this week. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced in a...
01.11.2023 Environment Village, State park partner on Christmas tree reuse program One wouldn’t traditionally think of a correlation between Christmas trees and beaches, but Greenport Village and Orient Beach State Park have teamed up to put discarded Christmas trees to...