President Joe Biden signed the Detection Equipment and Technology Evaluation to Counter the Threat of Fentanyl and Xylazine Act, a bill introduced by 1st District U.S. Representative Nick LaLota, on December 23. The law creates a new statutory responsibility for the Science and Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security to carry out research, development, testing, evaluation and cost-benefit analysis to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of drug...
For decades, the water quality at Havens Beach, Sag Harbor Village’s lone bathing beach, has been questionable at best, with stormwater runoff from the 2-square-mile...
Thank you, Andrew Messinger. The eighth paragraph of the “Ramble” article [“The March Garden Ramble,” Hampton Gardener, Residence, 27east.com, March 22] is most important for understanding the connections to the world of our ecosystem. If poison is used, other parts of the system are afflicted. Recently, a dead owl was found by a friend’s family. The bird was buried. Elaine McKay Sag Harbor The paragraph in question: “Now, consider the alternate outcome if I had been using a poison to...
It seems abundantly clear to me that Mayor Chris Fiore has one overwhelming goal: to preserve the North Haven that we love before it is too late and prevent its abuse at the hands of those whose intentions are self-serving [“Proposed North Haven Code Changes Bring Out a Crowd,” 27east.com, February 25]. We do not need to spend $200,000 of taxpayer money for a revised plan to tell us that houses that are too tall or too large for a...