A day at the beach just got a little cleaner in Montauk. Last week, the installation of two new I/A (innovative alternative) low-nitrogen septic systems began at the Gin Beach and South Edison Beach comfort stations. Work is expected to be completed by Friday.
On Saturday, the Healthcare Foundation will sponsor a symposium at the East Hampton Library on vision care. From 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a panel of ophthalmology experts will discuss topics of interest to individuals, caregivers, and health care professionals.
Instead of tossing those old jack-o'-lanterns in the garbage, the South Fork chapter of ReWild Long Island is asking people to compost their old Halloween pumpkins and gourds, and has partnered with three South Fork farms and gardens to make that easy.
“What is a new land ethic?” Stephan Van Dam, the president of ChangeHampton, asked rhetorically. The idea, he said, is “to disrupt our relationship with the natural world and overcome and change our attitude towards nature — the idea that we need to dominate nature. We need to disrupt that.”
