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Welcoming May, harbinger of happier days

We have had crueler months than April 2013, but this one singed the soul. more

5/2/13

Tales of an eager garbage picker (condoms excepted)

I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/4/13

Volunteer your time to restoring our wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. more

2/28/13

Where, oh where, is Long Island's wind farm?

I ran for 45 minutes over the seashell-coated paths and up and down the steep hills of Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick last Saturday, and I didn’t meet a soul, which was surprising and strange, even a little eerie. more

2/7/13

Saving the world, $10 at a time, part II

At 6 p.m. last Sunday, I tore off two layers of plastic sheeting covering the double doors that separate my upstairs living room from my ground-level family room, which are connected by a simple pine staircase. It was a triumphal moment. more

1/10/13

Hofstra journalism student Abdullahi Sada shot video from a skiff that ferried him to an island just south of Bay Park, where he spent the morning shooting footage and collecting trash.

Hofstra journalism students collect sound bites –– and trash –– in the wetlands

Eight Hofstra University graduate journalism students in Adjunct Professor Scott Brinton’s Issues in Science Reporting class grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat on March 24 to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to join in and report on a massive cleanup of the wetlands. more

4/5/12

Some 270 volunteers removed 32,000 pounds of garbage from the wetlands south of East Rockaway last Saturday. Operation SPLASH, a Freeport-based environmental group, sponsored the cleanup.

Volunteers make a ‘SPLASH’ in the wetlands

Some 270 volunteers grabbed rubber gloves and oversized garbage bags and headed by boat last Saturday to the archipelago of tiny islands and mudflats south of Bay County Park in East Rockaway to clean up more than 18 tons of rubber tires, Styrofoam buoys, aluminum cans and plastic bottles trapped amid the reeds and rushes. more

By Scott Brinton, sbrinton@liherald.com | 3/28/12

Protesters representing the Sacred Heart School in North Merrick weren’t discouraged by cold and snowy weather on Saturday.

Protesters call on bishop to rethink school closings

Hundreds of protesters from six Long Island Catholic schools braved the snow outside St. Agnes Cathedral last Saturday afternoon in an effort to keep the schools open. more

By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com | 1/25/12

Edward Andres, Seabrook Kilfoyle, Kelsey Clabby, Hailey Wilcox, Annie Coogan, Nicole Targia and Alyssa Pallotta, all 11, at a Save Sacred Heart candle-lit vigil in Merrick in December.

Sacred Heart parents plan rally to save school

Parents at the Sacred Heart School in North Merrick are planning to rally at the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Saturday, Jan. 21, to protest the closing of six Long Island Catholic schools in June. more

By David Weingrad, dweingrad@liherald.com | 1/18/12

Don Harris, vice president of the nonprofit environmental group Operation SPLASH (Stop Polluting Littering And Save Harbors), stood beside a boom used to collect trash from Freeport Creek. The organization’s core mission is cleaning up South Shore wetlands and bays.

Making a SPLASH across the South Shore

Diesel exhaust from nearby boatyards suffused the air as Don Harris cruised north in a 27-foot Carolina skiff up Freeport Creek, past a pair of mute swans that he calls Chip and Ophelia, the towering smokestacks of Freeport Power Plant No. 2, a Town of Hempstead dredging barge and hundreds of boats, many sleek and modern, others abandoned, rotting hulks sinking into the murky water. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/23/11

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