What caused thousands of blue mussels to appear along the shoreline in the Jamesport area this week hasn’t officially been determined. However, a local biologist believes the culprit may be rising water temperatures in the Long Island Sound.
Health & Environment
David Gruner has been visiting the same private beach on the Long Island Sound in Jamesport for more than 50 years. On Wednesday afternoon, he witnessed something he’d never seen before. READ
Jesse and Fran Jackson credit music for allowing them to meet and fall in love nearly 71 years ago. As Mr. Jackson puts it, his wife was the only woman he had met who could keep up with him as they danced “the old cow pin stomp,” in the 1940s. READ
Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul met with representatives from the Long Island Farm Bureau on Wednesday to discuss the challenges facing Long Island farmers such as the cost of maintaining a farm, a rising minimum wage and the lack of young farmers. READ
Land preservation in Suffolk County started long before 1998, when voters in the five East End towns authorized a 2 percent real estate transfer tax to support a Community Preservation Fund.
Statistics show that more than 2,500 firefighters and emergency personnel who responded at ground zero on 9/11 have since been diagnosed with cancer, according to a 2014 New York Post article.
Breast surgeon Susan Lee, M.D., possesses a dizzying array of credentials.
In addition to being a fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the New York State chair for the Commission on Cancer, the Southold resident was the first female president of the ACS’s Brooklyn/Long Island chapter. READ
The septic systems of the future will remove nitrogen before it reaches groundwater, something the current concrete block cesspools underneath most homes cannot do. This will result in improved groundwater and surface water quality as a result, officials say. READ
