Volunteers clear storm-slammed hiking trails
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Volunteers work in Heckscher State Park to repair some of the damage from Superstorm Sandy in East Islip. (Dec. 2, 2012)
Sandy's impact on Long Island
Greenbelt Trail
Heckscher State Park
After weeks of chopping up fallen trees with his ax, clipping unruly shrubs and picking up debris along miles of Long Island's hiking trails hit hard by superstorm Sandy, the time had come for Bill Raftery of East Islip to retire his old work gloves.
But Sunday, wearing new gloves, Raftery and a dozen other volunteers helped rebuild parts of a boardwalk at Heckscher State Park in East Islip...
