Park Service: Breach findings should be released ‘in the coming weeks’
The federal government will soon let it be known whether or not it intends to close the Fire Island breach at Old Inlet. The Draft Fire Island Wildern…
The federal government will soon let it be known whether or not it intends to close the Fire Island breach at Old Inlet. The Draft Fire Island Wildern…
Like so many ideas for local businesses, John Everitt of Brookhaven “thought it would be fun." In this case, fun to open up access to the bays to a…
Town of Islip ocean lifeguards Kyle Wilson, Jack Luquer and Peter Lepore were recently honored in Islip Town Hall for their heroic actions saving…
by Elizabeth Rogers Many people know of the breach at Old Inlet, a channel connecting ocean to bay in Fire Island National Seashore’s wilderness that …
Bellport Village resident Thomas V. Schultz, the co-director of Friends of Bellport Bay, headed out to the breach at Old Inlet today, Tuesday, and caug…
The five adults made it out from under the capsized boat, but the children didn’t. And it felt like forever that they were missing. “We frantically…
Actress and prominent Bellport resident Isabella Rossellini came upon eight people who got tossed into the currents of the Fire Island breach at Old In…
Safety inspections along the Fire Island Inlet Bridge start Friday, Sept. 9, and will reduce traffic along the span to one lane, according to the state…
Whether it’s for fish oil pills or feed for livestock, commercial fisheries targeting species long ignored by fishermen are emerging with relative freq…
Weekday construction work starts this week on the drawbridge between the Captree and Fire Island Inlet bridges on the Robert Moses Causeway, officials …