ENVIRONMENT & NATURE
ARS Landscape & Design adopts entrances to Huntington’s Heckscher Park
Supervisor Chad A. Lupinacci and Councilman Ed Smyth joined Andrew Steinmueller, President of ARS Landscape & Design, the first business to “adopt” and beautify...
Stony Brook University storm model predicts wetter, less frequent hurricanes
By Daniel Dunaief
At the beginning of this month, the North Atlantic started its annual hurricane season that will extend through the end of November.
Each...
THE JOY OF BIRDING: A photo essay by Jay Gao
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: Jay Gao
Hometown: Stony Brook
Photographer: When empty-nested, I bought myself a Nikon D750 camera, my first DSLR, at the end of 2015 as a...
Photo of the Week
SUMMER TIDE
Elyse Buchman snapped this peaceful scene in her hometown of Stony Brook on June 14 while having a sunset dinner with her husband...
Gyrodyne Receives Guidance for Sewage Treatment Plant
While plans are not set in stone, Gyrodyne in St. James now has some guidance regarding its proposed sewage treatment plant after a recent...
U.S. Reps Promote Bipartisan Bill to Stop Taxation on Experimental Septics
Republican and Democratic congressmen from Long Island are promoting a bill that would cancel the taxable status placed on grants for prototype denitrifying septic...
Comsewogue Grows Sunflowers for Graduating Seniors
Comsewogue school district is trying to leave its seniors with a little bit more than a diploma for all those who saw their last...
Local Tick Expert Shares Advice as Residents Begin to Venture Outdoors
With summer close by and as New York State continues to relax shutdown restrictions, residents will naturally want to get some fresh air. But...
Nature Matters: A Long Island Naturalist’s Bucket List
By John L. Turner
With a 65th birthday looming on the horizon for later this summer, I recently found myself, not surprisingly, thinking about “Bucket...
Your Turn: Shadbush – The plant with many names
By John L. Turner
Insight as to the value placed on a wild plant by past generations can be gained by how many common names...
