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Buffeted by wind-blown sand, workers planted grass last Friday on the massive dunes the state is building along the Ocean Parkway to protect it from the Atlantic Ocean’s onslaught in the event of another storm like Hurricane Sandy.

Officials: Jones Beach is on the road to recovery

Repair crews are hurrying to repair the damage that Hurricane Sandy inflicted on the beaches and parkways of Jones Beach Island and Robert Moses State Park, state officials say. A $32.2 million restoration project is scheduled to be finished before Memorial Day, the traditional start of the summer beach season. more

By Brian Racow, bracow@liherald.com | 3/20/13

In Merrick, floodwaters reached as far north as Merrick Road during Hurricane Sandy, spreading saltwater everywhere and stressing plants like this hydrangea outside the Merrick CVS. Though many plants appear to be dead, they could very well make a comeback in June or early July, experts say.

Saving stressed-out plants after Hurricane Sandy

When Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29, it inundated thousands of South Shore yards with saltwater, which is awful for lawns and most plants. Over the past 4½ months, homeowners have watched helplessly as their hydrangeas have shriveled up, their boxwoods have turned rust-colored and their grass has become a mottled patch of brown and more brown. In many cases, years’ worth of yard work, valued at thousands of dollars, was seemingly destroyed in a single night. more

By Scott Brinton | 3/14/13

Traffic was slow this morning as commuters drove through slushy roadways. The photo was taken on Sunrise Highway in Lynbrook, looking east.

Long Island hit with second wave of nor'easter

Long Islanders woke up to a more serious second-round of a nor'easter, with wet, heavy snow falling, and wind gusts causing delays and treacherous rush-hour driving conditions in the area. A storm … more

By Mary Malloy | 3/8/13

Annabelle, Jacqueline, Madeleine and Alaina were happy to be able to visit Genevieve and Juliet at the emergency shelter at Mitchel Field.

Pets: Helpless victims of Hurricane Sandy

Long Beach resident and cat owner Randy Lerner was an eyewitness as Hurricane Sandy hit the shore of Long Island. “I live across the street from the ocean,” he said, “and I watched the … more

By Mary Malloy | 3/6/13

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

Garbage collected during Op-SPLASH 22 last year.

Volunteer your time to restoring the South Shore's wetlands

Hurricane Sandy led to one of Long Island’s worst environmental disasters ever, if not the worst. Sandy’s massive storm surge flooded hundreds of South Shore homes. Fuel oil tanks broke loose and floated away, spilling oil as they went. Cars were flooded as well, which sent a witches’ brew of chemicals spilling out. Sewage leaked from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant. more

2/26/13

Operation SPLASH, a Freeport-based nonprofit environmental group, has scheduled its annual Op-SPLASH cleanup for March 16, in Freeport. At last year’s cleanup in East Rockaway, above, volunteers loaded trash onto a barge.

Restoring the South Shore's Sandy-ravaged wetlands

Like no other storm since the “Long Island Express” of 1938, Hurricane Sandy ripped apart Long Island’s South Shore, lifting docks off their moorings and depositing them miles away, tearing hot tubs from backyard decks and dumping them in the canals that line the coast, and sending boats big and small hurtling out to sea. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/26/13

two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, sewage breaches occurred at North Boulevard in Bay Park, above, and on Barnes Avenue in Baldwin.

Sandy showed Bay Park Sewage Plant shortcomings

Bay Park resident Nora Garcia-Osuna described what she found in her backyard after Hurricane Sandy as “mounds of hard, layered, crusted-over sewage” — the likes of which she had never seen … more

By Mary Malloy | 2/14/13

See the South Shore Symphony, under the baton of Music Director Scott Jackson Wiley, on Saturday.

In tune with the South Shore Symphony

There's plenty of music on area stages to the warm the soul during thie wintry weekend. Pianist Karen Faust Baer joins the South Shore Symphony Orchestra at Molloy's Madison Theatre, while Hofstra University hosts a concert in celebration of Black History Month and Rock of Ages rocks Tilles Center. more

2/13/13

Mold, a threat to your home –– and health

Melanie Siegel Rubin’s south Merrick home was, like hundreds of homes across the South Shore, flooded when Hurricane Sandy struck on Oct. 29. Saltwater inundated the front entrance and back laundry room. She did not realize, however, that water had soaked through her plywood subfloor when her crawl space flooded. more

By Scott Brinton | 2/1/13

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