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Healthcare workers help preserve monuments

Team members from Northwell banded together to clean military memorials at Silver Lake Park in Baldwin leading up to Memorial Day. The healthcare professionals power washed and scrubbed monuments, … more

6/17/21

Neighbors came out for a community cleanup last year.

Group to clean up Baldwin’s Silver Lake Park on Sunday

Ahead of Earth Day 2021, Nassau County Legislator Debra Mulé, a Democrat from Freeport, invites residents, park lovers and environmentalists to join her in giving Baldwin’s Silver Lake … more

4/16/21

Before the property was cleared (pictured), many local residents described the vacant Verity Lane property as an “eyesore.”

Verity Lane ‘eyesore’ property in Baldwin cleaned up

A vacant property on Verity Lane in Baldwin that local residents say had been used as a dumping yard for more than a year has been cleaned up. The private property, near Verity Lane and Grand … more

By Bridget Downes | 2/4/21

The cleanup was a family affair for Ann and Bryce Klatsky, who brought their child, C.J., along last Saturday.

International Coastal Cleanup comes to Pryibil Beach

Each year in the fall, hundreds of thousands of people in more than 75 countries remove trash from beaches and waterways, taking part in the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. more

By Jennifer Corr | 10/8/20

Matt Burke picked up trash floating in the canals with a skimmer net. He came from Queens to help out with Sonny’s Canal Cleanup in Baldwin last Sunday.

Volunteers clean up the canals

Dozens of people turned out Sunday morning for the 3rd annual Sonny’s Canal Cleanup. Volunteers used their boats and personal watercrafts to remove thousands of pounds of debris and litter … more

8/22/19

Cailin Roach, 5, volunteered with Surfrider for the first time.

Surfrider volunteers clean up the bay

By Bridget Downes bdownes@liherald.com Volunteers with the Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island chapter cleaned up the bay on Saturday as part of an effort to create cleaner local … more

By Bridget Downes | 3/14/19

Soil cleanup at the former Cibro Petroleum site is slated to begin in mid-October, according to the State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Island Park residents raise contamination worries as former Cibro site cleanup begins

Lying in his window-side hospital bed at South Nassau Communities Hospital, Harbor Isle resident Michael Ostrander at-tempted to update his neighbors on Facebook about his condition. “I have … more

By Peter Belfiore | 10/3/18

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation staff and volunteers hand-removed hundreds of pounds of the invasive plant species — water chestnut — from Mill Pond in Wantagh because the plant can harm the fish in the pond.

Invasive species plant pull at Wantagh Mill Pond

Hundreds of pounds of a harmful aquatic plant have been removed from Wantagh's Mill Pond for the first time. more

By Eden Laikin | 6/21/18

John Barnas, left, and Mark Davy helped remove debris and litter from the Canals at the annual Canal Cleanup organized by the Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island Chapter on April 21.

Local Surfrider chapter cleans up the Canals

The Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island Chapter held its 6th annual Earth Day Canal Cleanup on April 21 — co-organized by the Northeast Bay and Canal Civic Association — when more than 30 … more

By Bridget Downes | 4/26/18

Volunteers Alexander Michelman, left, Rennie Leone and Jack Rockefeller used paddleboards to collect floating debris during the Surfrider canal cleanup in April 2015.

Surfrider to host 6th annual canal cleanup

The Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island Chapter is preparing for its 6th annual Earth Day canal cleanup on April 21. Co-organized by the Northeast Bay and Canal Civic Association, the event … more

By Bridget Downes | 4/12/18

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