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Plum Island in play

By Sabrina Garone
Published July 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
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People on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island.
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People on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island.

Suffolk County could take over Plum Island from the federal government. Connecticut will not have to turn its voter rolls over to the Trump administration. The latest on the ongoing Yale-federal government settlement saga. Plus, how a Connecticut school district is bucking a national test score trend.

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Sabrina Garone
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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