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Pine Barrens Advocates Sue Over Speonk Sand Mine

author on Dec 19, 2012
The Pine Barrens Society, the environmental group that spearheaded the preservation of the Central Pine Barrens in the early 1990s, is suing the panel of local elected officials that oversees... more

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