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They opened a trash can full of worms. Backpedaling Southampton town officials claimed they accidentally voted to remove trash cans from the ritzy coastal community’s downtown – a move they reversed after fed-up locals threatened to dump garbage on Town Hall. The trash cans were back on the sidewalks this week, overflowing with garbage, as […]

They’re not out of the woods yet. Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an invasive species that could spell another incendiary disaster, officials warn. The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County a decade ago, is ravaging […]

No need for vacationers to test the waters here, experts say. The summer vacation spoiler has been identified as a cyanobacterial bloom — and the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) says that the crummy blue-green conditions seem to be spreading, with a noticeable increase in scale since Aug. 2. Currently, the contamination stretches […]