The Long Island Regional Planning Council voted Thursday to support efforts to preserve Plum Island, where the federal government plans to close its animal disease research center. Members of the ...

Connecticut and New York lawmakers have proposed two new bills to protect Plum Island. The Plum Island Preservation Study Act and the Plum Island Preservation Act both seek to create better long-term ...

The decades-long effort to turn a tiny island at the eastern approach to Long Island Sound into a nature sanctuary has gotten a big boost from the recently enacted federal budget, which orders the ...

Sep. 25—A quartet of U.S. senators, including Connecticut's delegation, have introduced legislation designed to "manage and preserve" the federally owned Plum Island off the coast of Long Island ...

PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. -- The future of Long Island's Plum Island is a step closer to being saved. The 822-acre island is about a mile from the tip of the North Fork. After Plum Island was pulled from the ...

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Killingly — The Board of Education has appointed two new principals to lead the high school and middle school. Carrie Apanovitch and Matthew Sierakowski will assume their respective roles as ...

Environmental activists, civic groups and elected officials said Wednesday they are a step closer to keeping Plum Island — the 840-acre land mass off Orient Point that is home to exotic wildlife — in ...

Local activists have a new plan for the future of Plum Island in Long Island Sound. Plum Island is owned by the federal government, but they've been trying to sell it since 2008. The preservation plan ...