05.07.2013 Government Plum Island zoning hearing at Town Hall tonight Residents will weigh in on Southold Town’s long-awaited plan to zone Plum Island tonight. The proposal would divide Plum Island into three zoning districts. The Plum Island Research District...
04.29.2013 Government ‘Save Plum Island’ meeting tonight in Orient Environmental groups from both sides of Long Island Sound will host a public meeting on protecting Plum Island’s undeveloped areas in Orient tonight. The Group for the East End and...
01.05.2013 News Homeland Security: Do they or don’t they want it? Is the Department of Homeland Security giving conflicting signals on its plans for the future of Plum Island? Congressman Tim Bishop thinks so. On the one hand, the DHS...
01.03.2013 News Tim Bishop: Don’t lock up Plum Island just yet Although Kansas officials paint a rosy picture on the progress of a planned billion-dollar animal disease research lab to replace Plum Island, Congressman Tim Bishop says that optimism is...
10.19.2012 News Plum Island environmental report leaves a sour taste Dan Durett of Greenport might have best summed up the North Fork’s reaction to a recent environmental study on the potential sale of Plum Island by the federal government,...
10.16.2012 News Enviro group blasts Plum Island report; Greenport hearing Thursday The environmental study prepared in the event the federal government sells Plum Island, currently home to a foreign animal disease research facility just off the tip of the North...
10.13.2012 News What does the future hold for Plum Island? Southold’s planning department has released a preliminary plan to place Plum Island under two separate zoning districts, neither of which would permit large scale housing or active recreational projects....
06.12.2012 News WATCH: CBS Sunday Morning takes inside look at Plum Island lab Ever wonder just what goes on at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center? The CBS news show Sunday Morning took a rare inside look into the animal disease research...
10.13.2010 News Tour takes in Plum Island’s beauty The clock is ticking on the future of Plum Island, and environmental advocates have banded together to fight to preserve the 840-acre property. The island, just east of Orient...