Great South Bay, NY

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• Fire-man

  spent skipping across the Great South Bay from his boyhood home in East Islip to Fire Island carved a fondness for the barrier island in building consultant Glenn Graham’s heart. Today, that’s part of the reason his Bay Shore firm Graham Associates is working 5/22/13 Read more »

• Beer award winners on Long Island

  headquartered in Centerport but expects to relocate to Farmingdale later this year.The winner for best new beer was Great South Bay Brewery 's Blood Orange Pale Ale. The brewery is in Bay Shore.More than 1,000 beer fans participated in the poll, which named   Read more »

• 2 boaters rescued in Great South Bay

  County Police Marine Bureau officers rescued two boaters in the Great South Bay after their engine lost power Friday afternoon.The boaters were about a half mile north of Fire Island Pines when they called authorities at 1:20 p.m. seeking help as high winds   Read more »

• North Fork baykeeper head Kevin McAllister to be honored

  to Kevin McAllister, the president of a nonprofit advocate for improved water quality in the Peconic Bay and the Great South Bay, it announced this week.The North Fork Environmental Council will give the award to McAllister, who is known as the Peconic Baykeeper,   Read more »

• Letters: Breach: To fill or not to fill?

  at worst.Changes in salinity and the flushing out of pollutants may actually worsen the ecological richness of the Great South Bay because of the very influential physical parameter of pH and ocean acidification.No breach associated with any barrier island   Read more »

Around the web

• The Importance of Reporting Injured Marine Mammals

  & Preservation 467 East Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901 631-369-9840 This Guest Post is brought to you by Michael Patrick, on behalf of Save the Great South Bay, and does not necessarily reflect the views & opinions of LongIsland.com and its staff. 5/22/13 from LongIsland.com Read more »

• Life After Sandy: Fire Island Rebounds

  mid May Debris still waiting to be picked up along the narrow walks in Ocean Beach. Some 3-4 feet of floodwaters from The Great South Bay inundated the walks in Ocean Beach, Fire Island, the remnant -- lots of sand. One ocean front house washed away and another   from WNYC | New York Public Radio Read more »

• Trace element's central role in harmful algal blooms

  view of Great South Bay, NY during a brown tide bloom in June 2008. Billions of A. anophagefferens cells per liter crowded into the coastline and turned the water brown. Credit: Suffolk County Department of Health Services More from Physics Forums - Earth   from PhysOrg.com Read more »

• Marina 6 Million Dollars

  20 Unit Luxury Waterfront Condominium/ Townhouses project located on scenice East of Blue Point, NY gateway to Great South Bay and Fire Island. The APROX 2 acre site has approvals for 20 luxury waterfront townhouses (not constructed) in two buildings with   from LongIsland.com Read more »

• At Fire Island, Officials Weigh Filling a Breach

  Old Inlet, a physical reminder of the storm remains: a channel, now 856 feet wide, through which seawater pours into the Great South Bay. The breach, in a federal wilderness area at the eastern end of the island, has already helped clean the much-compromised   from The New York Times Read more »