Volunteers are needed to help pick up trash from road sides in downtown Montauk on Friday morning.
The East Hampton Litter Action Committee, the group organizing the cleanup, will meet at 10 a.m. in the parking lot next to the Montauk IGA. "Any time you can spare" would be helpful, the group says.
Bags for trash collection will be provided. Those pitching should take their own gloves.
Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.
The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.
The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.
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