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Tales of an eager garbage picker (condoms excepted)

I was standing atop a mound of dried reed grass, piled high inside a circle of scrub brush, plucking up plastic pens and aluminum cans and depositing them in a big black garbage bag, when the ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/4/13

Herald reporter Brian Croce, left, took a tour of Middle Bay with Michael Fehling, owner of Empire Kayaks in Island Park, middle, and Valley Stream Herald Editor Andrew Hackmack.

Happy ‘blue trails’ to you

As I glided in a yellow kayak across Middle Bay near Island Park on a recent Wednesday, I couldn’t help but think this was a perfect October morning to be on the water. The sun was still rising, but shining brightly — perhaps a little too brightly. I really wish I had brought sunglasses, I thought. It was rookie mistake, and I wasn’t even a first-time kayaker. more

By Brian Croce | 12/6/12

The Greis Park Hudson Exercise Trail in Lynbrook is a local, hidden gem. Writer Mary Malloy recently took a walk with her grandsons Thomas, 8, and Shane, 4.

For walking, jogging, biking: Happy trails to you

Lions and tigers and bears — oh my! The forest was dense, and twigs scraped against our jeans as we hunted for the Wicked Witch of the West, using sticks as weapons. We wandered off from the … more

By Mary Malloy mmalloy@liherald.com | 10/18/12

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, at the wheel of the "Black Beast," which was once a terror on the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, announced on Friday that the county is planning to construct a hiking and biking trail along the old parkway. He was joined here by, from left, Denis Byrne, of Long Island Greenways and Healthy Trails; Michael Vitti, of Concerned Long Island Mountain Bicyclists; Brian Schneider, a hydrogeologist with the county Department of Public Works; Howard Kroplick, of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and the Beast's owner; Shila Shah-Gavnoudias, DPW commissioner; and Lisa and Richard Schary, North Bellmore environmental advocates.

Preserving Nassau’s motoring past

You wouldn’t expect to find a turn-of-the-century roadster ominously dubbed the “Black Beast” at a news conference convened by Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, but that’s precisely what took center stage at a media event he held at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow on Friday. more

Scott Brinton | 6/3/11

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