by Marshall Brown | May 23, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, News
Blue Island Oysters of West Sayville on Saturday April 27th hosted the Third Annual 5K Run For The Bay, raising funds a $1500 scholarship at Sayville High School, for Operation Blue Earth, a foundation driving a local public awareness campaign that encourages people...
by Marshall Brown | May 5, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
It was a surprisingly wet Saturday in Massapequa for its first Creek Defender Day May 4th, this Saturday.  The spring has been a soggy one, but we all saw what we thought was a break in the rain for a couple of days beforehand.  So happy we had our tent, and so...
by Marshall Brown | May 5, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
On Saturday May 4th, Save The Great South Bay joined Seatuck, The First Baptist Church of Bayshore, The Bayshore High School Interact Club, and representatives from Keep Islip Clean, Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter and County Legislator Steve Flotteron in the annual...
by James Bertsch | Apr 26, 2019 | Advocacy, Bay Friendly Yards, Creek Defender
James Bertsch Interviews Marshall Brown, Executive Director, Save The Great South Bay: At your Sayville High School class reunion, you and your classmates decided to start Save the Great South Bay. Who participated in the conversation what did you talk...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 17, 2019 | Creek Defender, Featured
Saturday, April 13th, began ominously. Driving rain overnight, followed by a blanket of fog.  Calls coming in: Is it still on? Gazing at our weather apps, looking at the forecasts, we were promised improbably that by mid afternoon the sun would burn through the...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 8, 2019 | Advocacy, Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats
Bob Draffin, President of The Bayport Civic Association and now President of The Sayville Rotary Club, is now Bayport’s Creek Defender!  In the video below, Bob is standing at the mouth of Homan’s Creek by Bayport Beach speaking of his love of the bay and...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 3, 2019 | Creek Defender, News
Fun fact: Our Facebook Page has 359 Likes from Patchogue, 123 from East Patchogue, and 116 from Medford. [ Mind you, we also have a private group page, where you can ask to join right here. ] As we seek to establish a Patchogue Creek Defender Program, these numbers...
by Howard Ryan | Mar 30, 2019 | Creek Defender, Fixing Habitats, Pollution
New York State lawmakers have agreed to impose a statewide ban on most types of single-use plastic bags from retail sales, changing a way of life for millions of New Yorkers as legislators seek to curb an unsightly and omnipresent source of litter. The plan, proposed...
by James Bertsch | Mar 30, 2019 | Bay Friendly Yards, News
[PUBLISHED ORIGINALLY IN THE SUFFOLK COUNTY NEWS] BY JAMES BERTSCH OAKDALE—Suffolk County Legis. William Lindsay met with residents at the Oakdale Civic meeting last week regarding plans to sewer parts of Oakdale using New York State storm relief funds. ...
by Howard Ryan | Mar 28, 2019 | Featured, News
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by Marshall Brown | Mar 26, 2019 | Advocacy, Featured
Seriously, when is Suffolk County going to stop poisoning its marshes with methoprene? It kills a lot more than mosquitoes — like for instance many of the creatures that eat mosquitoes, like the Seaside Dragonlet. ‘ Why is the county spending...
