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N. Hempstead waterfront advisory panel has changes
Photo credit: JC Cherubini
The Town of North Hempstead reconstituted its waterfront advisory commission at its board meeting Tuesday night, drawing the 11 members from environmentalists and representatives of not-for-profits, maritime businesses and yachting clubs.
The town board also voted to slightly change the commission’s bylaws, creating four two-year terms and four one-year terms, in addition to three three-year...
Read more »EPA reminds marinas how to cut pollution
As summer begins, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reminding New York marina operators about ways to reduce polluting waterways.
The EPA and the state Department of Environmental Conservation recently compiled a manual and distributed it to more than 500 marinas statewide detailing ways to reduce pollution.
“Marina operators play important roles in protecting the health of...
Read more »Perch still a problem fish in lake, pond
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Attempts to reduce the population of an undesirable fish in Lake Ronkonkoma and Montauk’s Fort Pond had mixed results, a state environmental official said Thursday.
Seeking to curtail a proliferation of white perch in both bodies of water, the state Department of Environmental Conservation restocked the lakes two years ago with walleye, said Charles Guthrie, the state’s regional fisheries...
Read more »Foreclosure help Friday for Lindenhurst residents
Photo credit: Alexi Knock, 2011
A state program to help prevent mortgage foreclosures is once again sending financial specialists to the Village of Lindenhurst to provide help to struggling homeowners.
Mortgage foreclosure prevention specialists from the state’s Department of Financial Services will be available tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lindenhurst Memorial Library.
The foreclosure prevention specialists...
Read more »Suffolk to restore East End Sunday bus service
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Sunday bus service has returned to the East End and will last one month longer than last year, when the Suffolk County Legislature first approved a special surcharge on the two lines during the week, to pay for it.
Started as an experimental program — there was no Sunday bus service on the North or South forks before it began — the buses ran for 11 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day,...
Read more »Smithtown inventor in QVC contest with power cord protector
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While trimming shrubs in his backyard, Tom Robbins found it infuriating that the plugs from the extension cord and edge trimmer kept getting snagged on lawn furniture and disconnecting.
“I was spending more time putting these plugs back together than trimming the shrubs, and I wanted to invent something that would fix that,” said Robbins, 46, of Smithtown.
So in 2003, Robbins invented...
Read more »Point Lookout turbine hits production milestone
Hempstead Town’s Point Lookout wind turbine has surpassed a major production milestone — 100,000 kilowatt hours, town officials said.
The turbine, situated at the town’s Department of Conservation and Waterways, opened in December and has generated 133,000 kilowatt hours, officials said. The turbine provides power to the only hydrogen fueling station on Long Island.
“Powered by...
Read more »Corwith Windmill to get landmark status
Photo credit: Michael E. Ach
The old Corwith Windmill on Montauk Highway in Water Mill will be getting some belated recognition from Southampton Town later this year, more than 30 years after it was listed on both the State and National Register of Historic Places.
The windmill, the second-oldest on Long Island, was built in Sag Harbor in 1800 and moved to the Water Mill hamlet green in 1813 when it was purchased by the...
Read more »Bellport transit hub project gets grant
Photo credit: Carl Corry
Plans for a transit hub at the Bellport LIRR station got a jolt of funding last week, with a $44,500 grant awarded by a private group interested in transportation development in the New York region.
The grant, by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and the One Region Funders’ Group, was one of four awarded to projects in the metro area. They were selected out of more than 40 applicants.
The...
Read more »Bridgehampton panel discussion on recycling
Cookies and garbage will be on the menu in Bridgehampton next week, as the League of Women Voters hosts a panel discussion on the status of recycling in the Hamptons.
East Hampton Town Councilwoman Sylvia Oberby, whose committees deal with sanitation and solid waste, said the board has been struggling for years trying to decide the best way to deal with scavenger waste — stemming from cesspools...
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