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Environment group seeks funds to continue

Members of the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection

Photo credit: Alejandra Villa | Members of the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee photographed at Theodore Roosevelt Park in Oyster Bay. The 2 year-old environmental group is set to run out of grant money in June. (Jan. 23, 2012)

A fledgling environmental group formed to help protect a 40-square-mile watershed in northern Nassau and Suffolk counties will soon see its funds dry up -- unless its municipal members step up.

The Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Protection Committee, launched in January 2010 and operating under a $60,000 federal grant that will be exhausted by June, is appealing to the counties, the towns of...

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