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The Nassau County Department of Public Works is shipping raw sewage from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway to this pumping station on Merrick Road in Merrick. The sewage is then piped to the Cedar Creek treatment plant in Wantagh. The plan is a temporary fix for mechanical problems at Bay Park.

County trucking sewage across the South Shore

Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Nassau County Department of Public Works is trucking up to 80,000 gallons of raw sewage each day from the Bay Park treatment plant in East Rockaway through Baldwin and Freeport to a red brick pumping station in Merrick. more

David Weingrad and Scott Brinton | 12/17/10

Wolf Conversation Center curator Rebecca Bose, left, and Managing Director Maggie Howell, right, and Woodmere Middle sixth graders watched as Atka the wolf disguised his smell using a coffee cup.

Hanging with a part of the pack

The call of the wild made an appearance at Woodmere Middle School as Atka, one of the younger gray wolves from the Westchester-based Wolf Conservation Center, visited students on Dec. 8. more

ANN E. FRIEDMAN | 12/15/10

Temple President James Rotenberg, Michelle Rosenbaum the temple’s director of education, and Rabbi Rosenbaum, along with temple students lit the menorah and sang Hanukkah songs.

Celebrating Hanukkah

Temple Israel in Lawrence marked the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah with a dinner and service last Friday. more

12/8/10

The cover of the revised prayer book used by Conservative Jews during the High Holy Days.

Prompting a prayer book revival

For the first time in 40 years the High Holy Days prayer book used by Conservative Jewish temples was updated and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive based on congregant reports. more

Jeff Bessen | 9/29/10

My, how my compost pile — and my mind — grow

Suddenly, I was captivated by the darkness below on a steamy August day. I could only stare as tiny gray pill bugs crept up from the recesses of the decaying leaf pile. Then I noticed an earthworm slithering to the surface and looping back to the underworld. This place was alive. more

Scott Brinton | 8/20/10

Is it too late to give Texas back to Mexico?

It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America. more

Randi Kreiss | 6/14/10

Is government the enemy of the people?

So the Tea Party came and went on Tax Day, and yes, the nation survived. Of late, I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this movement. What is it, precisely? more

Scott Brinton | 4/23/10

Do animals really belong in zoos?

It was, for me, what Henry David Thoreau might call a transcendent moment, when the world suddenly turned still and time seemed to slow. more

Scott Brinton | 4/8/10

What’s a LEED?

Q. I listen to radio talk shows, and John Gambling was going on about LEED-certified homes and how he doesn’t believe in global warming. What does LEED mean and how do you get it? Does it help to have it? more

Monte Leeper | 1/21/10

Saving the world, $10 at a time

My colleagues Randi Kreiss and Alfonse D’Amato each published year-end lists two weeks ago, with Randi offering a holiday shopping list and Alfonse, a list of all the political issues he’d like resolved. I thought, how’d I miss the memo? Where was my year-end list? I must have been too busy looking back on the decade that was. more

Scott Brinton | 1/7/10

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