by | Jan 25, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured, Fixing Habitats
[Guest posted by Jack Bonner, from East Islip and now a student at Loyola, Maryland] It is 5:30 a.m. and I’m leaving my home port headed out towards the Robert Moses Causeway. There is dew on my windshield, and I can taste the salt air as the sun rises over my back....
by Marshall Brown | Jan 17, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Featured, Fixing Habitats, News
2019: A CALL TO ACTION The first thing we can say is this:  Our plans in 2019 involve you.  Lots of you. The bay has big problems, and its going to take all of us working together — local citizens, schools, local civic associations, The Rotary Clubs and The...
by Marshall Brown | Jan 16, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured
Save The Great South Bay encourages all local residents eligible for a sewer hook up (the red zones on the map ) to vote YES Jan 22nd. Here is a website, Clean Water For Carll’s River, which was set up to address the project and to answer FAQs. The polling...
by James Bertsch | Jan 6, 2019 | Advocacy, Cleaner Water, News
Reprinted with permission from The Islip Bulletin with edits. This is part of Save The Great South Bay’s continuing Newsroom series, where we feature guest posters speaking to local bay issues.  If you have a story you want to tell, or wish to reprint here,...
by Marshall Brown | Dec 5, 2018 | Advocacy, Fixing Habitats
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Suffolk County Legislature once again approved the use of Methoprene spray for mosquito control, with regular spraying to be performed over 20,000 acres of salt marshes (that’s 30 square miles, folks) on a regular basis...
by Marshall Brown | Nov 25, 2018 | Advocacy, Education, Featured
I was poking around on our Facebook Group page this morning, and I stumbled across some interesting data.  The data went way beyond the number of group membership (14,312 as of 11/25/2019).  It included data by age, gender, location, and participation. Given all...
