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Herald Editor Andrew Hackmack, left, intern Brian Stieglitz, center, and Senior Editor Scott Brinton recently cycled from Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa, to check out New York state’s new 3.6-mile, $3.8 million bicycle path on the Ocean Parkway.

I had been pedaling for an hour and a half when I stopped cold. The view, quite simply, stunned me. It was 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, and I was three-quarters of the way through a bike ride up and down the asphalt path that runs along the Wantagh and Ocean parkways, from Nassau County’s Cedar Creek Park, in Seaford, to the Town of Oyster Bay’s Tobay Beach Park, in Massapequa. The entire ride, from Cedar Creek to Tobay Beach and back, was 17.6 miles. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/29/14

Civic group on LBMC: Sale is taking too long

The Beach to Bay Central Council of Civic Associations, a community group that has led the charge in the last year to restore medical services to Long Beach, filed a complaint with New York state … more

By Alexandra Spychalsky | 8/13/14

The Bay Park sewage plant in East Rockaway is one of three wastewater treatment facilities that will be maintained and operated by United Water.

Nassau County Legislature OKs sewer privatization

The Nassau County Legislature’s seven-member, bipartisan rules committee unanimously passed a plan on July 18 to implement a long-term contract for the control of the county’s wastewater system. Promising to save taxpayers roughly $240 million over the next 20 years ... more

By Mary Malloy and Laura Schofer mmalloy@liherald.com, lschofer@liherald.com | 7/23/14

The Western Bays provide many recreational opportunities such as kayaking, but scientists say that fertilizer runoff and partially treated sewage effluent threaten the health of the bays. Above, a wetland canal at Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick.

The Western Bays, an ecosystem suffering from all sides

Superstorm Sandy will be remembered as one of Nassau County’s most demoralizing calamities: the miles of rubble that choked the expanses where houses had stood in dignified symmetry, the thousands of Long Islanders living in limbo, forced to use their savings to stay afloat. People weren’t the only ones affected by the storm, though. Sandy devastated wildlife throughout Nassau’s Western Bays, which scientists had already considered to be fragile ecosystems –– many on the brink of collapse –– long before the storm. more

By Stapha Charleme | 6/20/14

We'll say it again — fund the Bay Park pipe

The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rejected the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s request to fund a $690 million outflow pipe that would stretch from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant three miles into the Atlantic Ocean. more

6/19/14

County officials announced a bipartisan deal to re-establish the Clean and Seed program in front of an East Rockaway property, at right, that is vacant as a result of Superstorm Sandy.

Bipartisan support leads to Sandy program renewal

As many South Shore residents continue to pick up the pieces 19 months after Superstorm Sandy, county officials announced a bipartisan agreement to approve $14.4 million in borrowing to re-establish its Clean and Seed program. more

By Brian Croce | 6/17/14

Attorney Francis McQuade at an April 22 press conference where he urged the state to hold a public forum regarding the closure of LBMC. The state recently said that they would hold the meeting once the sale of LBMC is complete.

State to hold public forum on LBMC closure

The state Department of Health announced recently that it would hold a public forum regarding the closure of the Long Beach Medical Center, a meeting that was demanded by the Beach to Bay Central … more

By Alexandra Spychalsky | 6/11/14

A crucial scene from the TV show “The Good Wife” was filmed in these beds, but no actual patients have been in the hospital for over a year and a half.

Civic group tours shuttered hospital

For almost a year, while debate raged over the future of the Long Beach Medical Center, the facility has sat with beds ready to be filled, equipment ready to be staffed and an emergency room ready to … more

By Alexandra Spychalsky | 5/14/14

A group of volunteers removed a decrepit dock, above, and other debris from the Heron Street canal last Saturday, part of the Surfrider Foundation’s annual Earth Day cleanup.

Volunteers team up for Earth Day cleanup of Canals

Volunteers braved the cold and murky waters of the Canals — many donned in wetsuits and rubber gloves — to clear large debris and trash during the Surfrider Foundation’s annual Earth Day … more

By Anthony Rifilato and Kristie Arden | 5/1/14

Attorney Francis McQuade said that residents would file suit against the health department.

State urged to hold hospital hearing

“I was sitting in my living room with my wife dying in my arms, waiting for an ambulance, when there was a hospital in walking distance,” said Long Beach resident Andy Shapiro, recalling the … more

By Alexandra Spychalsky | 4/24/14

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