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Celebrating Latin American Artists in Greenport

March 19, 2024March 21, 2024 East End Beacon

Pictured Above: "Carnival" by Hector deCordova Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport will host the opening of its spring 2024 exhibition "Heritage and Home: Latin American Artists of the East End / Hogar y herencia: Artistas latinoamericanos del East End," this Friday, March 22. The exhibit features more than a dozen East End artists of Latin American descent, and explores themes of social and cultural heritage and the idea of what we call home. Included artists range from the established nonagenarian Greenport

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A Guidebook to Our Place in the Ecology of a Changing Planet

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Scott Chaskey. |. Lindsey Morris photo for Milkweed Press Words!Pens are too light.take a chisel to write. This snippet of verse, winnowed by South Fork poet and farmer Scott Chaskey from the works of the poet Basil Bunting, helps to guide Chaskey’s sculptural new book of essays, “Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life.” Poems, like music, are “patterns of sound on the background

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New Suffolk School Voters Choose To Become a Non-Instructional School District

March 6, 2024March 7, 2024 Beth Young

Voters in New Suffolk approved a proposal to tuition out all of the district's students to a neighboring school district in an 83-14 vote on Tuesday, after parents of the seven students currently attending the three-room schoolhouse spent the past year telling the district their students needed more than this tiny school can offer. "The New Suffolk Community passed a resolution on March 5th, 2024 to move to a non

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Riverhead Seeks Feedback on Draft Comprehensive Plan

March 4, 2024March 12, 2024 Beth Young

The Town of Riverhead recently announced that all draft chapters of the Town’s Comprehensive Plan Update are now posted online for public review. The town is asking residents and stakeholders to review all 13 chapters and send comments to compplan@townofriverheadny.gov by March 15, 2024. The Riverhead Town Board will also hold formal public hearings on the revised comprehensive plan at a later date. The draft Comprehensive Plan Update, prepared by

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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: The Path of Self-Discovery

February 21, 2024February 21, 2024 Dave Davis

by Dave Davis “When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous, because I’ve known every hour was a part of the dream that I would find it. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, I’ve discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to

Healthcare workers at Peconic Bay Medical Center were hailed as heroes during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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PBMC Nurses Reach a Tentative Agreement

February 17, 2024February 18, 2024 Beth Young

New York State Nurses Association nurses and healthcare workers at Peconic Bay Medical Center reached a tentative contract agreement with the hospital's parent company, Northwell Health, on Thursday after a marathon bargaining session. If union members vote to ratify the contract on Tuesday, Feb. 20, they will avoid a strike authorized to begin Feb. 21. According to NYSNA, the agreement "includes improvements to safe staffing standards, stronger and expedited safe

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Romaine Strikes New Deal on Wastewater Tax

February 8, 2024February 13, 2024 Beth Young

After a plan to put a referendum before voters for an eighth of a percent sales tax to fund septic improvement initiatives was stymied by Republicans in the Suffolk County Legislature last summer, new County Executive Ed Romaine unveiled a new tax plan this week that will provide more funding to sewers than on-site septic systems. There are estimated to be about 380,000 on-site septic systems in Suffolk County, many

The East Hampton BESS facility, a collaboration between National Grid and NextEra Energy, was the site of a fire in May of 2023.

Energy Featured Government Renewable Energy

State Battery Fire Group Issues Code Recommendations as Southampton Considers Moratorium Extension

February 7, 2024February 14, 2024 Beth Young

As moratoriums on new Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) continue in Southold and Southampton towns this winter, a state task force convened last summer to investigate three BESS fires in New York has released a draft of 15 proposed fire code changes to help prevent and mitigate fires. The report, released Feb. 6, comes as the Southampton Town Board is considering a six-month extension of a moratorium on consideration of

The future site of "The Enclaves" in Southold

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February Editorials: “Up West” is Now Out Here

February 1, 2024February 2, 2024 East End Beacon

Pictured Above: The future site of "The Enclaves" in Southold We’re shocked, but not surprised to see the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency dismiss the concerns raised by numerous Southold residents over the tax breaks awarded in January to the resort hotel known as The Enclaves, which will likely soon begin construction. The brusque manner in which the IDA disregarded the mountain of public opposition to the project is sadly

Volunteers, including students from Southold Elementary School, helped restore the Custer Preserve garden, with help from a grant from ReWild Long Island, in the fall of 2023.

Environment Featured

A New ReWild Chapter for the North Fork

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Volunteers, including students from Southold Elementary School, helped restore the Custer Preserve garden, with help from a grant from ReWild Long Island, in the fall of 2023. Anyone who’s watched the asphalt of an abandoned shopping center crack and fill with Queen Anne’s lace and chicory, mugwort and goldenrod knows that nature will reclaim its territory whenever given a chance. A human movement is sweeping this country looking

Ms. Streeter's portrait of Sarah Jackson Adams, a Greenport community leader and suffragist who conceived and funded the Greenport Auditorium

Community Featured Greenport Housing Sag Harbor

Port & Harbor: Keeping Historic Seaside Villages Alive & Vibrant

January 26, 2024February 6, 2024 Beth Young

Pictured Above: Ms. Streeter's portrait of Sarah Jackson Adams, a Greenport community leader and suffragist who conceived and funded the Greenport Auditorium, built in 1894. How can we preserve historic buildings and also ensure a vibrant working community can still remain in the seaside villages of the East End? These are questions being asked by Sag Harbor-based artist Sabina Streeter in an exhibition, “Port & Harbor,” on view in Greenport’s