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Peconic Dish: A Sformato of this Season

Alison Boyd Savage
by Alison Boyd-Savage Sformato, a delectable savory custard popular in Italy, is an ideal appetizer or light lunch. It’s also the perfect showcase for local produce. Vibrant green spinach has the depth of flavor to really pack a punch. You can repeat this dish throughout the summer with whatever is in season, and once you have mastered a simple béchamel you are ready to go. Think fresh peas and leeks
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Photos: Southold CAC Plants ReWild Pollinator Garden at Town Hall

Beth Young
Volunteers with the Southold Town Conservation Advisory Council and ReWild Long Island's North Fork chapter were busy on Wednesday planting a new pollinator garden behind Southold Town Hall. The 713-square-foot garden was planned by members of the CAC, including CAC Vice Chair and ReWild volunteer Inga Van Eysden, CAC Chair Carol Brown, Cornell Master Gardener Anne Sande and architect Barbara Friedman, who took a seven-week ReWild garden design course to
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Edwina von Gal’s Marshouse in East Hampton, NY, provides habitat (food, shelter, and water) for wildlife and aims to minimize harm and maximize biodiversity. “I like to look at a property this way: What is for me and what is for everything else? If wildlife can’t eat the everything else, what will they eat?” she says. | Photo Courtesy of Perfect Earth Project
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Climate Local Now: How to be a PRFCT Gardener

East End Beacon
by Melissa Ozawa There’s a movement growing and we, at Perfect Earth Project, are thrilled to be a part of it. More and more people want to do something to help end the biodiversity crisis, stop poisoning wildlife (us and our pets!), and use fewer natural resources. But wanting to do good is just the start. Part of Perfect Earth Project’s mission is to share hands-on knowledge about what you
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Letters: Fact & Fiction on Vibrio, SEQRA, Immigration & Clean Energy

East End Beacon
Vibrio, Fact and Fiction To the Editor: Last week, during a thirty-minute press event covering a multitude of environmental topics, a 20-second sound bite regarding the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus was extracted without context. This led to a series of headlines and social media posts that, while technically accurate, understandably caused public concern. While the term "flesh-eating bacteria" is colloquial and medically descriptive of how an infection progresses, and while CDC
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Photos: Spring Awakenings at LongHouse Reserve

Beth Young
This spring’s ritual of the reopening of LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton took place on a half-warm, half misty day April 18, a shock after a week of sun and summerlike heat that had awakened unique bulbs and spring-budding trees. But the landscape continued to welcome visitors in an exploration of the intimate and intricate interweaving of art and nature throughout this 16-acre natural treasure. "Spring Awakenings," the title of
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The Mudflats: America at their Fingertips

Beth Young
If you live in Orient, you've heard the fiddles, driving drumbeat and tight rural harmonies of The Mudflats, echoing out of Poquatuck Hall or spreading on the breeze across the Oysterponds Historical Society's grounds. This band appears to have blossomed onto the North Fork music scene over just the past couple years, but many of its members' lives have been woven together for decades, from Nashville to Washington DC to
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Librettist Lee Bynum, Director Tanya Birl-Torres and Composer Natalie Brown are the New York-Based creative team adopting Mr. Wick’s book into an opera.
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New Team Builds an Opera from Steve Wick’s “All That Remains”

Beth Young
On a fall day in the 1990s, North Fork-based journalist Steve Wick was shopping at the King Kullen in Cutchogue when he saw a man wearing tattered clothes balance two grocery bags on the handlebars of a bicycle and pedal off.  Pictured Above: Librettist Lee Bynum, Director Tanya Birl-Torres and Composer Natalie Brown are the New York-Based creative team adopting Mr. Wick’s book into an opera. His curiosity piqued, Mr.
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Lee Zeldin at his Jan. 16 confirmation hearing.
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Letters: EPA Rollbacks & International Whirlwinds

East End Beacon
Pictured Above: EPA Administrator and former East End Congressman Lee Zeldin at his 2025 confirmation hearing. Don't Breathe Easy with EPA Rollbacks Dear Editor, Twenty-five years ago, I founded the nonprofit Community Health and Environment Coalition (CHEC) to confront Long Island's unusually high cancer rates and investigate possible environmental causes. We worked with the New York State Department of Health, the Suffolk County Health Department, medical professionals, and residents, guided
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Spring Theater: The Founding Fathers (And Mothers) Have Something to Sing About

Beth Young
The North Fork Community Theatre doesn’t usually do musicals in March, but this year the company is thrilled to have the rights to produce “1776,” the 1969 Broadway hit that gave audiences a glimpse into the drama that took place in the room where the Second Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence. Running March 12 through March 29, this show has been cast by veteran director of musicals Huck
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Nicholas Auletti and Savannah Jean Moore in rehearsal for "I Do! I Do" |. Dane Dupuis photo for HTC
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Spring Theater: “I Do! I Do!” Is A Heartfelt Reflection on Our Vows

Beth Young
What does it take to sustain a marriage over the better half of a century? The Hampton Theatre Company’s spring production of the 1960s Broadway hit musical “I Do! I Do!” has some of the answers, and it also provides a rare opportunity for members of the audience to renew their vows. Pictured Above: Nicholas Auletti and Savannah Jean Moore in rehearsal for "I Do! I Do" |. Dane Dupuis
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