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erson c.516.236.0537 • vivian parisi@danielgale.co m 266 Sea Cliff Avenue, Sea Cliff, NY 342 Wheatley Plaza, Gree nvale, NY
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Residents raise concerns over salt shed financially feasible to move the shed, and the village had been told that moving it would void Sea Clif f residents have its warranty. When Burignat-Ko zol expressed concerns about the village’s new salt shed, on the returned to the podium at the Department of Public Works board’s public meeting Monday property, for the second month. night, she listed concerned like The structure, which stores obstructed view from her proproad salt for the erty, the glare of winter, was built as sunlight reflecting a replacement for off the domed structhe old one, which ture, the visibility collapsed. Residents of DPW activities wh o l ive n e a r by and the value of her have raised issues property. like obstructed “It looks like a views and potential plane hangar was declines in property placed right next to value. our backyard,” she Lauren Burignatsaid, “turning what Kozol and her wife, felt like a r ural Christine, first space into an indusspoke up at the viltrial zone.” lage board meeting There is a conon June 8, after the crete wall between project had begun. lAurEN the DPW property Lauren Burignatand the BurignatKo z o l s u g g e s t e d BurIgNAT-Kozol Ko z o l re s i d e n c e. that the structure, Sea Cliff One top of the wall which was not built is a fence with vertiin the same spot on the DPW cal privacy slats. Villafane said property as the old one, be on Tuesday that the village has moved to where the old one gotten an estimate from the stood, or somewhere else on the Williams Fence Company to lot. The DPW property is adja- install an 8-foot-tall fence with cent to the couple’s property. horizontal privacy slats on top Mayor Elena Villafane said of the wall, to replace the existon Tuesday that it was not
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Volunteers and Coalition staff work together to tag horseshoe crabs in Hempstead Harbor.
Saving Hempstead Harbor, one horseshoe crab at a time By WIll SHEElINE wsheeline@liherald.com
The Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor has wrapped up its second year of participation in New York’s Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Network, a statewide effort that tracks horseshoe crab populations and migration patterns while giving volunteers a firsthand role in marine conservation. The coalition joined the network last year to establish a monitoring site at Tappen Beach in Glenwood Landing, filling what organizers said was an important gap along the North Shore. The monitoring network is a collaboration among the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Cornell Coopera-
tive Extension of Suffolk County and Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. It was modeled after a similar monitoring effort in Delaware in response to the declining population of Atlantic horseshoe crabs. Sarah Stromski, the coalition’s environmental monitor, said the project has two primary goals. “We’re counting horseshoe crabs and then we’re also tagging them,” Stromski said. “It’s an effort to better understand their migration patterns and behaviors and how best to protect them.” Often recognized for their distinctive appearance, horseshoe crabs play a critical ecological role, serving as a keystone species in the Long Island Sound and as a food Continued on page 7
t looks like a plane hangar was placed right next to our backyard, turning what felt like a rural space into an industrial zone.
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