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Letter: Towns can help save bay
deteriorating water quality has complicated worthwhile efforts to restore abundant hard clams to the Great South Bay . Without doubt, all levels of government and private citizens need to work together to mitigate the nitrogen loading in many Long Island bays 5/29/12 Read more »
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Set rules to encourage a clam revival on the Great South Bay
including algae blooms like the brown tide.In 2008, then- Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy called together a Great South Bay Hard Clam Restoration Working Group. It included baymen, government officials, scientists and The Nature Conservancy , which owns Read more »
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Letter: Look at bay water quality
have been clamming on the Great South Bay for nearly 40 years. I have watched its decline, and it saddens me ["Silence of the clams," News, May 17].Scientists blame the little guy for overharvesting in the 1970s, leading to the decline of the shellfish industry. Read more »
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Final hearing on West Babylon apartments
Babylon has won a series of crucial approvals, angering neighbors who say it will spoil a once-quiet neighborhood near the Great South Bay . On Thursday, the project's future -- and, some say, the neighborhood's -- rests on the outcome of a 6 p.m. public hearing Read more »
Around the web
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SAVOR 2012 Brewery Profile: Great South Bay Brewery (@greatsouthbay)
you need to know: Great South Bay Brewery, located on Long Island’s Great South Bay (natch), hits all of its marks as a small, regional craft operation. A founder/fourth-generation brewmaster with experience in the beer meccas of San Diego and Colorado? Check. from DC Beer Read more »
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3 Long Island towns eye clamming restrictions
in the three towns on Long Island’s Great South Bay are considering new restrictions on clamming. Overharvesting during the 1970s is widely blamed. But baymen claim that water quality is a bigger problem. The new rules are being eyed in Islip, Babylon and from Long Island Business Network Read more »
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Local Clammers Oppose More Town Regulation
condering a proposal for increased regulation of the local clamming industry, as part of the recommendations from the Great South Bay Hard Clam Restoration Working Group. The proposal, which would require clammers to provide monthly summary reports of their from Babylon Village Patch Read more »
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Fire Island Dance Festival Will Feature Works by Tony Winner Rob Ashford, Ballet Hispanico and Parsons Dance
its 18th edition July 20-22 in Fire Island Pines, NY. The event, which is performed outdoors against the backdrop of the Great South Bay, will showcase a pièce d'occasion by Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Rob Ashford—a recent Tony nominee for from Playbill Read more »
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Audubon Society outdoor program Wild on Long Island June 21
Great South Bay Audubon Society will present an outdoor program entitled Wild on Long Island, Thurs., June 21, 6 p.m. at Brookside County Park, 59 Brook St, Sayville. Join Bobby and Cathy Horvath of Wildlife In Need Of Rescue & Rehabilitation (WINORR), who from The Babylon Beacon Read more »
