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Environment

Not Just for the Birds: North Fork Audubon Celebrates at 50

It’s not a coincidence that so many East End nature organizations are sharing a 50th Anniversary this year. At the height of the environmental movement prompted by the first Earth Day in 1970, residents of the region surrounding the Peconic Estuary took a look around them and realized this was an important natural place worthy of protecting.

If you haven’t gotten involved with the Audubon Society, you might think this non-profit is all about the birds. But the North Fork Audubon Society, which is celebrating its golden anniversary this year, has long taken its mission deeper, exploring all the ways that natural and unnatural habitats affect birds, bees and pollinators, and, in turn, the entirety of the ecosystem that surrounds us.

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East End

Community

Orient Welcomes Ukrainian Family

At the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine late this past winter, a feeling of powerlessness seemed to unite many East Enders, and people all over the United States, who weren’t sure what role they could play in helping ease the suffering endured in a conflict on the other side of the world.

The most local Ukrainian church, in Riverhead, had asked residents to stop donating supplies because they were overwhelmed by the logistics of getting those supplies to Ukraine, and proudly displaying a Ukrainian flag seemed a hollow gesture in support of a country whose cries to the U.S. to cover its airspace had gone unheard.

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Sag Harbor

Resilience

All For The Fireboat

Sag Harbor is a major port, but this summer a fire on a 20-foot boat reminded the community that more work is needed to protect the village from marine-based fires. 

According to the Sag Harbor Partnership, which is helping raise money for a new fireboat for the Sag Harbor Fire Department, the village serves more than 1,000 vessels up to 225 feet in length each year, which carry thousands of  gallons of fuel, as well as mega-yachts of more than 300  feet that carry upwards of 70,000 gallons of fuel. 

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East End

Performing Arts 

Local Theater Gets Back on the Boards

Live local theater is returning to the East End in force this month, with local productions opening in October at four prominent community theater groups.

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East End

Radio

Behind the Headlines

This week on Behind The Headlines, Beacon editor Beth Young joined a great panel discussing the closing of Schmitt's Market in Southampton; loose leaf pickup in Riverhead; the 50th anniversary of the North Fork Audubon; and an effort to distribute diapers to needy parents.

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