TIMES HERALD The Village
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Volume 40, No. 27
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Summer floats away a great heron sits on a log at Setauket Pond earlier this week as the hot month of august comes to a close.
Poquott cleans up
Village officials, volunteers assemble to clean August storm’s aftermath
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Photo by Robert Johnson
Setauket Harbor Task Force preps festivities By SuSan riSoli
The Setauket Harbor Task Force will host its first Setauket Harbor Day Saturday, Sept. 12, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event will be held at the Shore Road dock and beach. It will include live music, food, boat tours of the harbor, kayak and paddleboard demonstrations, marine environmental education and presentations about sea captains and boat builders from bygone eras. Task force members hope the festivities will inspire the community to join them in their efforts to clean and preserve Setauket Harbor, co-founder George Hoffman said. In a phone interview Monday, Hoffman said the group would need volunteers
Photo by Susan Risoli
the Setauket harbor task Force is a new north Shore-based group working to preserve the environment.
to help with ongoing water quality monitoring and seasonal beach cleanups. Hoffman also said Harbor Day is intended to increase recognition of how important the
local coastline is to community life. “The history of the harbor is intertwined with the history of Setauket,” he said. Hoffman said Setauket
Harbor Task Force members met this summer with Brookhaven Town officials, who said, “They will come up with a plan to dredge HARBOR continued on page A12