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Ocean Beach in New London is all but deserted on a winter day last week. (Betsy Graham) A gull hovers over a rock off Waterford Beach, while a ferry from Long Island’s Orient Point heads to New London. (Betsy Graham) Seaweed covers part of the rocky shore near Waterford Beach. (Lisa Brownell) Published March 11. 2021 7:10AM  By Steve Fagin Let’s suppose that after a few hours of swimming, lolling on the sand and strolling the boardwalk at Ocean Beach, you decide to visit Harkness. Simple...

Tautog Fishing Tips from the Pros Experimenting with a variety of rigs, different baits, and obscure locations is often the key to landing big tautog. March 4, 2021 Experimenting with a variety of rigs, different baits, and obscure locations is often the key to landing big tautog. Tautog, also called blackfish, are more affable than you may have been led to believe, and catching them is not easy to master. There’s a big difference between catching a couple for dinner and consistently pulling ...

Sunday brought hope in form of vaccine to Fishers Island The vaccine is given to a woman on Fishers Island in February. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone) Hope for a future free from COVID-19 arrived on Fishers Island Sunday morning when a small plane carrying doses of the Moderna vaccine landed on the island’s airstrip. Along with the plane, Suffolk County officials arrived on a Southold Town police boat to help admi...

In 1748 and 1749 announcements were placed in several New York City newspapers about slaves that had run away from their owners. The slaves in question, however, weren’t fugitives who might have fled north to escape Southern owners. “Run-away on the first of November last, from John Tuthill of the Oyster Ponds, at the East End of Long-Island, a Mulatto Man Slave named Toney, aged about 19 years. Had on when he went away, a Felt Hat, a brown Camblet coat, a red Jacket and speckled trowsers.�...

Interview with Kurt Vonnegut With permission from HAMPTON SHORTS; Fiction Plus from the Hamptons and the east end; volume IV 1999. HAMPTON SHORTS is a not-for-profit literary magazine that puts out one book each year. Copies can be obtained by contacting HAMPTON SHORTS at either HamptonShorts@Hamptons.com or at P.O. Box 1229 Watermill, N.Y. 11976 or at (631) 537-2862. The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I...

Ben Gonzalez,left, and Dave Daly with Paco at their Shelter Island home. (Credit: Charity Robey) When Ben Gonzalez and Dave Daly decided to start an oyster farm, Dave knew exactly where he wanted to raise bivalves. His great-grandfather, Thomas Daly, bought a large Southold property in 1919 to get his family away from the flu pandemic sweeping through New York. He put down roots, and over the decades the family extended and built houses all around him. Dave grew up sailin...

ARS Office of Communications Agricultural Research Service scientists at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) in Orient Point, N.Y., have made two important advancements against African swine fever virus (ASFV), which causes a lethal disease in pigs. Last year, the research team developed several vaccine candidates by deleting genes to attenuate (weaken) the virus. They used a technique called “gene editing” in which DNA can be directly inserted, deleted, modified, or replaced in t...

The federal budget package released Monday afternoon includes language (Division FF, Title V) repealing 2009 and 2012 bills associated with the plan to relocate the animal disease research facility on Plum Island to Manhattan, Kansas. The House and Senate are expected to pass the bill promptly, and the president is expected to sign it. This action will restore the normal disposal procedure for federal property instead of auctioning it off to the highest bidder. Next steps then include ensurin...

Original Story Follows: The long-dreaded federal auction of Plum Island has likely been cancelled with the approval by the U.S. Congress Monday night of the 2021 federal spending bill. The 822-acre federally owned island off Orient Point has long been home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, which is being replaced by a new facility in Manhattan, Kansas, which is expected to be fully operational by 2022. Laws passed by the federal government in 2008 and 2012 had mandated Plum Island be s...

We ignore the powerless at our own peril, says LBJ biographer Robert Caro. Robert Caro doesn’t want to renew his lease. He tells me this on a cold day in mid-October, as we stand in an elevator bay on the 22nd floor of the Fisk Building on West 57th Street. He has worked in this same office, every day, for the last 26 years. He likes his routine — he dresses to write (this day he was wearing a periwinkle v-neck sweater and a pair of pressed khakis; an informal choice for a man who usu...