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The Latino advocacy group OLA of Eastern Long Island has received more calls than ever from workers reporting wage theft. WSHU’s Desiree Diorio spoke to OLA’s executive director, Minerva Perez, about why workers on the East End are falling victim to unscrupulous employers.
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The Town of Riverhead hopes to become a model for partnering with nonprofits Long Island Organics Council and Green Inside and Out to launch more municipal drop-off sites for food scraps to be converted into compost.
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On eastern Long Island, the Sag Harbor School District has pulled out of a land deal with the Town of Southampton to preserve property for a new athletic field.
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The osprey has become an icon of the Long Island and Connecticut shorelines. The bird of prey was endangered just 40 years ago, but now, osprey populations are thriving due to conservation efforts.
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A union representing about a dozen farm workers and their supporters protested outside of Pindar Vineyards’s outlet store in Port Jefferson over the weekend. They want to pressure winery owners to negotiate a contract with their union.
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Voters in eastern Long Island approved the Peconic Bay Region Community Housing Fund, which is expected to provide more than $20 million a year to address the affordable housing shortage.
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Revenues from the Community Preservation Fund have declined in eastern Long Island’s five towns.
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Demonstrators marched down the main streets of Southampton and East Hampton, carrying signs that read, “Tax the Rich.” They called for increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers to fund affordable housing and to fight climate change.
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In eastern Long Island, Montauk Airport has been purchased by a private buyer after multiple attempts by the Town of East Hampton to acquire it.
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Kelly Dennis, a councilwoman with the Shinnecock Indian Nation in eastern Long Island, has been chosen to be part of the first-ever Tribal Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of the Interior.