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Report: All well with Island water levels - Shelter Island Reporter

Tropical storms improve well water levels - Shelter Island Reporter

Tropical storms improve well water levels - Shelter Island Reporter

Town committee calls for pesticide ban: Asks others to appeal to Town Board

(Reporter file photo) The Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board (WQI) plans to reach out to other Island committees to join in an appeal to the Town Board to ban pesticides. Members of other committees the Water Advisory Committee, the Conservation Advisory Council, the Waterways Management Advisory Council and the Green Options Committee have all expressed concerns about the effect of fertilizers and pesticides they consider dangerous to the environment and to people. The issue was discussed at the May 6 WQI meeting. Co-chairman James Eklund pointed to the “fragile nature of potable water” and the condition of surrounding waters as factors in recommending action.

Hotel Bondi story of John Bluey Kirkwood | Daily Mail Online

Incredible story behind this throwback photo: Bluey Kirkwood ran away to war after killing a man but still died a hero - even though the Miracle Man couldn t always stay on the right side of the law World War II veteran John Bluey Kirkwood was an illegal SP bookmaker at the Hotel Bondi through the 1950s  Kirkwood had been seriously injured by gunfire and shrapnel at El Alamein in 1942 and left on the field to die  Told he would never walk again, Kirkwood spent more than two years in hospital before taking his first steps He was among drinkers captured in an iconic photograph taken in the Hotel Bondi bar on November 3, 1951