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Cremation Over Casket? How About Neither.
Each year around 50,000 people die in New York. While cremation and traditional burials are still the dominant methodologies of handling the dead, a third option has been gaining traction: green burials. Yet the ways in which New Yorkers are being laid to rest aren’t recorded. “States do not, on death certificates, distinguish between a…
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Massapequa Softball Tournament Honors Player’s Passing
By Katherine Hoey and Maia Vines Thick, grey clouds weighed down on the sky, threatening to strike out a fundraiser high school softball tournament before it even began. But the clouds retreated in time for the first game, Massapequa versus West Islip. On Sunday, April 6, The Massapequa High School Chiefs played against four high…
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Seal Population Consistent and Rising Since L.I Marine Ecologist First Started Studies in 2004
It was a sunny Saturday morning, March 16, as pairs of people emerged from cars parked on the far East side of Dune Road in Westhampton Beach. Here at Cupsogue Beach County Park, Dr. Arthur Kopelman, founder and ecologist of Coastal Research Education Society of Long Island, takes weekly expeditions toward the bayside inlet, where…
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Suffolk Schools Outdated Vaping Policies go up in Smoke as Epidemic Spreads Across Long Island
By Katherine Hoey and Erika Peters. Originally on The Osprey. Two more Suffolk County school districts are expected to join a new program by the end of February and early March alongside the county’s Department of Health to rethink how students are educated and reprimanded regarding vaping. The “Vape Out” program, which includes community and parent…
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