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December 12: School lunch, Hillary, diocese, Plum Island

Plum Island demise welcome

The announcement that the Plum Island Animal Disease Facility will eventually be closed is wonderful news for Long Islanders ["Midwest facility would shut Plum I.," News, Dec. 6].

For more than half a century, Plum Island has contaminated our air, estuaries and possibly our aquifer as scientists carried out experiments on animals. Rep. Tim Bishop's ill-informed...

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