Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound is scheduled to host their annual Open House event from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 11, at 120 Woodward Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut. The public is invited to this free,...

Suffolk Times: Environmental groups from both sides of Long Island Sound will host a public meeting in Orient on Monday, April 29 on protecting Plum Island’s undeveloped areas. The Group for the East End and the Save the...

TheHour.com: Harbor Watch received a boost by the state this week in the form of a $38,165 grant to help with a project that will expand its shoreline tracking effort to assist in the elimination of bacteria...

The Sea Grant programs of Connecticut and New York, with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Long Island Sound Study program, have announced they will fund research grants that will help efforts to improve water quality and adapt to climate...

Stamford Advocate: Arthur Glowka, a longtime Stamford resident, avid fisherman and fierce advocate for Long Island Sound, died Monday at Stamford Hospital after a long illness. He was 82. Glowka, chairman of Stamford’s Shellfish Commission, battled...

The Wall Street Journal: From the bobbing deck of his 24-foot boat in Long Island Sound, a quarter mile from shore, Bren Smith pulled out of the water a rope draped with ribbon-shaped blades of fresh sugar kelp. He...

Hartford Courant: A Good Samaritan helped 2 officers pull a woman from Long Island Sound on Monday night, police said. The 24-year-old woman survived but was suffering from hypothermia and cuts, police spokesman William Kaempffer said. It wasn’t clear...

Tom Andersen will present a talk on January 29 in Guilford, Connecticut, titled “Adriaen Block and the Discovery of Long Island Sound.” Here’s a posting from Andersen’s blog, called Sphere: It’s the 400th anniversary of the European discovery of...

TheDay.com: In hip waders and rubber boots, Mitchell Buck dropped himself into the chilly waters of Goshen Cove Thursday morning , then sloshed through the shallow pond in search of a perch for a device...

Suffolk Times: Southold Town will soon have a new public waterway access on Peconic Bay, after the state DEC announced this week that it has purchased the former Old Barge restaurant site just off of Route...