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December 2010
Looking for a way to celebrate the Niantic River and Oswegatchie Hills? Check out this Keepsake memories and recipes collection and help support the clean-up and protection of these SE CT natural resources...

November 2010
Winter is a good season to plan water-saving strategies for your yard.  Suzanne reports on Susan Munger's native designs at East Lyme's Hole in the Wall Beach demonstration project...

August 2010
Save the River-Save the Hills, Inc. is welcoming kayakers to get out on the Niantic River this weekend for some fun, music and a chance to win T-shirts, if not a new kayak, at its 7th annual Niantic River Appreciation Day...

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July 2010
Who says gardeners, especially environmentally conscious ones, are a dull lot? Perennial Harmony Garden Shop in Waterford, CT, has the right idea for combining horticulture and pollution reducing landscaping information and ideas with food, fun, and music. Go Native with Joe Pye and Friends! 
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The Calkins Park Community Garden is bringing these New London neighbors closer together and putting more fresh vegetables on their dinner tables...
community leaders and interested citizens are working together to change public attitudes and actions. It uses new, social and traditional media to reach people with messages about how we can preserve, protect, enjoy and make the best uses of our precious water and other natural resources. 
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Suzanne Thompson, local journalist, talk show host and STR-STH member, is creating a series of radio shows, podcasts, print and blog articles about environmental outreach efforts by STR-STH and others in Southeastern Connecticut.
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Save The River-Save the Hills, Inc, is a 2009 recipient of a Long Island Sound Futures Fund grant for its Sound Decisions multi-media program. 

Read about STR-STH's Sound Decisions grant, announced in October 2009, by the Long Island Sound Study...long island sound study liss

Click to learn about the Long Island Sound Study (LISS).
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June 2010
New London's Community Harvest Network not only brings neighbors together to raise fresher and healthier foods. The organic farming effort helps reduce pollution into the Sound by rejuvenating and cleaning up otherwise barren public land sites and encouraging others to do the same...

May 2010
Looking to take your lawn organic - or get rid of it altogether for the benefit of our environment? Bill Duesing, CT chapter of Northeast Organic Farmers Association, explains why the "traditional" American lawn is not sustainable and how to change our habits...

Marine Sciences Day 2010
Adrienne Menno, Project Oceanology, shows a skate to middle school students during one of the Marine Sciences Day workshops on the UConn Avery Point Campus on May 19...
February 2010
Save the Seeds! - Winter is arm-chair gardening at its best. Content that voracious insect pests must be literally freezing to death in our true New England weather, I'm safely inside, curled up with my seed catalogs, dreaming of veggies to come. Juicy purple...

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Adrienne Menno, Project O, shows a hake to students. Left to right, Jason Pellitier, Wolcott, Renato Calado, a Project O intern from Portugal, Menno, and Hunter Held, Rocky Hill.
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Suzanne Thompson featured on "Conversations" ~ Comcast Public Access TV Show.

April 2010 
Get the lead out - test your lawn or garden soil to avoid applying excess nitrogen, plus get a bonus screening for levels of lead, the number-one environmental health threat to children in this county...
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Most of us associate Spring and Girl Scouts with those addictive cookies. But over the past three years in Old Lyme, March has become synonymous with spring clean-up as the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Daisies, the youngest troopers, fan out around town to pick up trash at public locations.
This year's sites included White Sands and Griswold Point, the CT DEP Marine Headquarters/Ferry Landing Park, Sound View Beach, Watch Rock, Center School, the rest area on Shoreline Road/Route 156, and the Exit 70 commuter lot...
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March 2010
Suzanne Thompson, OL Resident Wins Major Agriculture Journalism Award. During the Agriculture Day at the State Capitol in Hartford, the Governor and the Commissioner presented Agriculture Journalism awards selected by the Connecticut Agriculture Information Council, and Old Lyme resident Suzanne Thompson was one of the 11 award recipients recognized for outstanding coverage of Connecticut agriculture...
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Petie Reed of Perennial Harmony Gardens shows how urban gardens can look great without extra fertilizers and pesticides...



January 2010 
Meet New Niantic River Watershed Coordinator - Sarah Lamagna. The Eastern Connecticut Conservation District (ECCD) has hired Sarah Lamagna as a natural resources specialist and Niantic River Watershed coordinator...
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Sarah Lamagna, ECCD natural resources specialist and Niantic River Watershed coordinator, with Bob De Santo, Waterford, president, East Lyme Public Trust Foundation, which supports the Niantic Bay Overlook. Contact Sarah to get involved in watershed group programs and public outreach.