Dry Coastal Ponds Are a Warning
The abnormally low water table coupled with the spread of invasive species are combining to threaten the long-term health of the East End’s coastal plain ponds.
On the Wing: Turkeys, Turkeys, Everywhere
It’s hard to decouple the turkey from Thanksgiving, but long before we paired turkeys with mashed potatoes and stuffing and turned them into a national symbol, they were going about their business, hanging out in gangs, flipping leaves, and browsing the ground for nuts.
Fatal Noyac Fire Leads to Civil Suit
Lawyers for the family of two young women killed in a Noyac rental-home fire this summer have taken their case to federal court.
Possible Land Swap Slammed as ‘Environmental Sellout’
The East Hampton Town Board’s vote this month to acquire 18.8 acres of vacant land at 66 East Lake Drive in Montauk with general municipal funds, and not community preservation fund money as initially intended, has prompted both suspicion that the land will be swapped with Suffolk County for property in Hither Woods to build a wastewater treatment plant, and, more recently, one accuser’s resignation from an advisory committee on which he has sat for more than a decade.