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While leprechauns are a quintessential part of Irish culture and mythology, the actual word itself does not have Irish roots, scholars have found.

(Reporter file photo) The Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board (WQI) plans to reach out to other Island committees to join in an appeal to the Town Board to ban pesticides. Members of other committees — the Water Advisory Committee, the Conservation Advisory Council, the Waterways Management Advisory Council and the Green Options Committee — have all expressed concerns about the effect of fertilizers and pesticides they consider dangerous to the environment and to people. The issue was discussed at the May 6 WQI meeting. Co-chairman James Eklund pointed to the �...

Incredible story behind this throwback photo: Bluey Kirkwood ran away to war after killing a man but still died a hero - even though the 'Miracle Man' couldn't always stay on the right side of the law World War II veteran John 'Bluey' Kirkwood was an illegal SP bookmaker at the Hotel Bondi through the 1950s  Kirkwood had been seriously injured by gunfire and shrapnel at El Alamein in 1942 and left on the field to die  Told he would never walk again, Kirkwood spent more than two years in hospital before taking his first steps He was among drinkers captured in an iconic photograph taken in th...

Ed Shillingburg is stepping down as a member of two town committees. But Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board Chairman Gordon Gooding said at Monday morning’s meeting that it won’t stop him from calling Mr. Shillingburg whenever he needs advice, particularly on stewardship plans for various properties the town acquires to preserve. For the past four years, Mr. Shillingburg, who also has been a member of the Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board, has guided the process of developing many of the plans that ensure proper maintenance of sites aquired by the town for preservation. “...