Lawmakers Break Ground On Bridgehampton Sidewalk Project
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Rohma Abbas on Oct 21, 2011
A group of lawmakers gathered in Bridgehampton on Thursday afternoon, October 20, to celebrate the ground-breaking of a sidewalk project along the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, an effort to make the... more
The Hand-Aldrich Post 924 Hampton Bays American Legion will host a Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony on Sunday, December 7, at 11 a.m. at the Shinnecock Inlet at the end of Dune Road in Hampton Bays. The public is invited and all are invited back to the American Legion hall for food and beverage after the ceremony.
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Pity the poor horseshoe crab. It is, without question, a survivor almost beyond compare. Consider this: There are fossils of the creature dating back 445 million years. Dinosaurs arrived about 200 million to 250 million years ago — which means the time between us and dinosaurs is equal to the time between dinosaurs and the earliest horseshoe crabs. And they’re still here, nearly unchanged. But they finally may have met their match. The American horseshoe crab has “vulnerable” status, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The population faces a whole series of challenges, including sea-level rise, coupled ...
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Rohma Abbas on Oct 21, 2011