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Pride of the sky: The renowned U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds return to the annual air show this weekend, after a six-year hiatus.

The welcome arrival of Memorial Day on Monday is sure to be enthusiastically greeted by everyone. And the unofficial kickoff to summer fun often starts with a trip to Jones Beach to watch some of … more

By Karen Bloom | 5/20/15

The West Bathhouse was repaired last year. The work will continue this year with an additional $10 million from the state.

$10 million for Jones Beach improvements

Jones Beach State Park will see $10 million in additional improvements this year, continuing to build on renovations and upgrades made at the park in 2014. Aesthetic and structural improvements will be made to the bathhouses; and a new outdoor facility will promote healthy, active outdoor recreation; and there will be additional infrastructure improvements. more

By Laura Schofer | 5/1/15

A video on Liberty Natural Gas’s website shows images of a liquefied natural gas transport ship. Such ships, capable of carrying tens of millions of gallons of LNG, would dock 18.5 miles off Jones Beach if Liberty acquires government approvals to build Port Ambrose.

Feds hit pause on Port Ambrose

The U.S. Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration last month officially suspended the legal timeline for federal review of Port Ambrose, a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal 18.5 miles off the coast of Jones Beach, citing more than 10,000 public comments they received between December and March, among other reasons for the delay. more

By Brian Racow | 4/8/15

The U.S. Maritime Administration and Coast Guard held a public hearing about Port Ambrose, a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach, last Wednesday night in a ballroom at the Hilton New York JFK Airport in Jamaica, Queens. Port Ambrose opponents, who have assembled into a “No LNG Coalition,” conducted a press conference immediately before the hearing, drawing a few dozen people into a small hotel meeting room feet away from the ballroom.

Most at Port Ambrose hearing slam plan

One after another, for four hours, speakers at a hearing last Wednesday in Jamaica, Queens lined up to decry a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 18.5 miles southeast of Jones Beach. more

By Brian Racow | 1/14/15

U.S. releases draft Port Ambrose impact report

Groups opposed to Port Ambrose, a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Jones Beach, are fuming at the U.S. Maritime Administration and Coast Guard’s decisions to release a 1,800-page environmental impact report shortly before the December holidays and schedule public meetings in early January. more

By Brian Racow | 12/23/14

This image from Liberty Natural Gas’s website shows where the company wants to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean. The company would need to lay 21.7 miles of subsea pipeline to connect its terminal to the existing Transco Lateral, which extends from New Jersey to Long Beach.

Port Ambrose impact report expected

A company’s plans to build “Port Ambrose,” a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Atlantic Ocean 19 miles southeast of Jones Beach, have stalled for months in a federal review process, but that is likely to change next month. A U.S. Coast Guard official estimated that the government will release a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Port Ambrose in December. more

By Brian Racow | 11/5/14

After Sandy, the Jones Beach boardwalk was rebuilt with Brazilian hardwood to enable it to withstand a storm the strength of Sandy.

Destroyed by Sandy, Jones Beach is back

Jones Beach, a spit of sand with 6.5 miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches, had no barrier island to protect it against Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. It was the barrier island, and so it took the … more

By Scott Brinton | 10/30/14

Superstorm Sandy swamped the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater on Oct. 29, 2012.

Destroyed by Sandy, Jones Beach is back

Jones Beach, a spit of sand with 6.5 miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches, had no barrier island to protect it against Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. It was the barrier island, and so it took the brunt of the tempest that terrible day, leaving the famed state park in ruins. more

By Scott Brinton | 10/29/14

Herald Editor Andrew Hackmack, left, intern Brian Stieglitz, center, and Senior Editor Scott Brinton recently cycled from Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa, to check out New York state’s new 3.6-mile, $3.8 million bicycle path on the Ocean Parkway.

Video: Biking the Ocean Parkway

I had been pedaling for an hour and a half when I stopped cold. The view, quite simply, stunned me. It was 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, and I was three-quarters of the way through a bike ride up and down the asphalt path that runs along the Wantagh and Ocean parkways, from Nassau County’s Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa. The entire ride, from Cedar Creek to Tobay Beach and back, was 17.6 miles. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/29/14

Swimming is prohibited at Jones Beach on Aug. 28 because of rip tides.

Ocean swimming prohibited at Jones Beach

Swimming is prohibited in the Atlantic Ocean today, Aug. 28, at Jones Beach State Park and several other South Shore beaches because of rip currents caused by Hurricane Cristobal. more

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