Mystery Surrounds Four Dead Deer Found On Train Tracks In East Quogue
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Four dead deer were found on the rail road tracks in East Quogue last week. ALEXA GORMAN
Four dead deer were seen on the railroad tracks near the overpass on Emmett Drive in East Quogue last week. ALEXA GORMAN
Four dead deer were found on the rail road tracks in East Quogue last week. ALEXA GORMAN
Four dead deer were seen on the railroad tracks near the overpass on Emmett Drive in East Quogue last week. ALEXA GORMAN
Alexa Gorman on Apr 14, 2015
Four deer carcasses were removed from the railroad tracks in East Quogue on Saturday, three days after being spotted from an overpass by a hamlet resident, but it remains unclear... more
With the Fire Island to Montauk Point, or FIMP, project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be restarted in 2023, and it being what Kevin McAllister, president of the organization Defend H20, describes as now largely a “sand plan” — to dump sand along the 83 miles of the Suffolk County oceanfront — it would be instructive to consider the situation in another region. I began writing about the Army Corps’s FIMP plan when I started as a reporter in Suffolk County in 1962. Then, what was a new scheme also involved sand dumping. But a key feature ... 3 Dec 2021 by Karl Grossman
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Crewmen on whaling ships faced extreme hazards. Enraged whales capsized and sank the boats that pursued them. A fall from high masts of a sailing vessel caused serious injury or death. Heavy, sharp iron tools used to butcher a captured whale could inflict serious wounds. Heavy gales created giant waves that swept crewmen overboard. Fortunately somewhat rare, but not unheard of, was danger from hostile natives when the ship stopped at a remote island to replenish food and water. James A. Hamilton, master of the whaling bark Prudence, was involved in such an incident and wrote about it. Hamilton related ... by Jim Marquardt
The child is ahead of her adult companions, and as she stands alone at the edge of the pavement, she reprimands the older, presumably wiser members of her beach party. “See!” she shouts. “I told you I should have brought my swimming suit!” She is pointing out over the calm water, her desire weighing only one factor, the ease with which someone her size could safely enter the flat sea. She has not tested the temperature. Indeed, a man with a separate group has just emerged from his Thanksgiving plunge. He is unhurriedly toweling off and teasing his dry family ... 1 Dec 2021 by Marilee Foster
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Alexa Gorman on Apr 14, 2015