04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for farmland preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary farmland preservation program has just achieved a triumph. The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that...
12.14.2017 Columns Column: Krupskis’ world — the family and the farm Albert J. Krupski Sr. was a very lucky man. He grew up on a handsome Peconic farm as the son of Nettie and Julius Krupski. That farm was where...
06.12.2017 Agriculture First kelp crop harvested in Cornell pilot program Early Thursday afternoon, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski climbed aboard a barge and headed into the Peconic Bay. Their mission: to harvest sugar...
02.08.2017 Agriculture Farmers urge county to pass law to sidestep court ruling More than a dozen farmers, most from the East End, spoke at a Tuesday public hearing in Hauppauge in support of a proposed Suffolk County law that would sidestep...
