Gov. Dannel P. Malloy came to Sherwood Island State Park Monday to mark the kickoff of a centennial celebration of Connecticut’s State Parks. Surrounded by a host of local and state politicians and financial supporters from People’s United Bank, the governor shared a few memories of his own, when as a child he came with
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A “major part” of Long Island Sound would be designated a marine sanctuary and undersea preserve under a proposal announced by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal during a Sunday meeting of the Friends of Sherwood Island in Westport. “The idea is, instead of building new pipelines and new means of transporting energy and industrializing the Sound,
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Daniel C. Esty, Commissioner of the Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP), spoke on July 28, 2011 at the Sherwood Island State Park Nature Center. The event was co-sponsored by The Friends of Sherwood Island State Park and Green Village Initiative. This was one of the Sunset lecture series that the Friends of Sherwood Island hosts.
Take your pick: Marshes are the “nurseries of life” or the “kidneys of the watershed,” said an expert on habitat restoration Thursday evening during a lecture titled “Long Island Sound: Restoring What Has Been Lost.” The impact of humans on the Sound has been significant, said Chris Cryder of Save The Sound, beginning with the
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