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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

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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Environment Featured

Romaine Strikes New Deal on Wastewater Tax

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
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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

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
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The future site of "The Enclaves" in Southold
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February Editorials: “Up West” is Now Out Here

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
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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

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
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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

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
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Community Featured

Second Annual “Splash For Cast” To Be Held Jan. 28

East End Beacon
On Sunday, Jan. 28, the North Fork Polar Bears, a winter swim group of more than 130 members and growing, will host its 2nd Annual Splash for CAST – a charitable cold-water plunge open to the public, taking place at 10:30 a.m. at Silver Sands Motel & Beach Bungalows at 1400 Silvermere Road in Greenport. Check-in begins at 9:30 a.m. Funds raised from the event will benefit the Center for
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Cutchogue Education Featured Southold

A School Grows in Cutchogue

Beth Young
The Peconic Community School, on the North Fork, started 12 years ago with nine students by two sisters passionate about hands-on education in collaboration with the community, has found its forever home in Cutchogue. The school opened its doors Jan. 8 in the former Our Lady of Mercy School on the Main Road in downtown Cutchogue, with more than 90 students in the eight classrooms of the former Catholic school
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Sabina Streeter, Dressed Up for the Wrecking Ball (1888–2023). Charcoal on paper, 24" x 36".
Arts Featured Visual Arts

Art Inspires Greenport Historic Preservation Discussion

Beth Young
Pictured Above: Sabina Streeter, Dressed Up for the Wrecking Ball (1888–2023). Charcoal on paper, 24" x 36". In tandem with its current exhibition Port + Harbor: Preservation, Not Speculation by Sabina Streeter, Floyd Memorial Library will be holding a panel discussion on Historic Preservation on the East End (and where does new development fit in?), on Saturday, Jan. 13 at 3 p.m. Panelists include Maziar Behrooz, founding architect of mb_architecture, Sag Harbor and Manhattan, Tara
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