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Serving the bays

A team of marine scientists harvest sugar kelp in Setauket Harbor.
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A team of marine scientists harvest sugar kelp in Setauket Harbor.

New York's first commercial kelp farm has been harvested on Long Island. A report finds nearly half a million Connecticut residents don’t have enough to eat. Kosta Diamantis has been arrested. And a look at an effort to revitalize the Shinnecock language.

Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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