05.19.2016 Environment Fishermen remove 200,000 pounds of bunker to prevent fish kill Riverhead Town and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are each contributing two cents per pound to subsidize fishermen hired to haul bunker fish out of the Peconic Bay...
05.12.2016 Environment Underwater video shows Peconic River fish struggling to get oxygen Hundreds of bunker, their mouths yawning open as they gape for oxygenated water and to clean their gills, were filmed swimming in the Peconic River Wednesday. It’s a sign...
04.16.2016 Columns Column: More fish kills are coming … so says one researcher Here’s a prediction you’ll probably hope is wrong. A marine researcher from Molloy College in Rockville Centre is predicting that a massive fish and turtle kill will occur in...
09.01.2015 Community Local professor’s new book is a 400-year history of Peconic Bay The Suffolk County Historical Society’s Book & Bottle event this month will feature a work with quite a bit of sprawl — four centuries’s worth, to be more specific.
08.31.2015 Police Coast Guard suspends search for missing paraglider After more than 16 hours, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search it launched following a report of a downed paraglider in the Peconic Bay.
08.20.2015 Environment Bottlenose dolphins make rare appearance around Long Island When the glistening dorsal fins first sliced through the water, Debra Iannelli thought they belonged to sharks.
06.13.2015 Editorials Editorial: Something must be done about nitrogen in our waters We’ve been reminded a lot in recent weeks that fish kills are a regular occurrence in these parts, and aren’t anything new. These comments are being made mostly to...
03.31.2015 Government Town adopts flyboarding regs; Flyboard LI owner leaving town After debating the issue numerous times since last summer — in fact, the word “flyboard” appears in 12 headlines in the News-Review online archives — the Riverhead Town Board...
