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Slow Food's Donations for Food Pantries and Farmers

Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:54

Slow Food East End, which promotes local food producers and artisans, announced this week that it will donate $15,000 to the region’s food pantries, and offer grants of $500 to $1,000 to farmers, seafood harvesters, and other food providers who have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The group is also donating $1,000 to restaurants, food stores, and farms that have earned its Snail of Approval award for their commitment to producing good, healthy, local food in environmentally-friendly ways. 

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New Tick-Borne Virus Makes First Appearance in New York

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An Orca Off Montauk?

A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, raised the possibility that an orca was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island. 

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Item of the Week: The Old Hook Mill by Hamilton King

This depiction of Hook Mill was hand-painted on a ceramic tile by Hamilton King sometime before 1950 at the request of Maude Sherwood Jewett, a fellow artist who founded the Tile Painters Club of East Hampton.

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