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Grant funds to help keep Sound healthy came to the House of Representatives in 2017, he said, the funding for Long Island Sound was $3 More projects are in the million to $4 million. Now, he works to protect the health of said, it’s over $30 million, a 900 the Long Island Sound and percent increase. “It’s because Hempstead Harbor, thanks to we’ve been pushing grant funding that this and making it a was recently awardpriority,” he said. ed by the federal govA total of 39 new ernment. grants totaling $5.4 On Tuesday, key million were awardlocal advocates for ed by the National clean water joined Fish and Wildlife U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi Foundation, in partat a news conference nership with the to announce a new Long Island Sound round of funding for Study, the U.S. Envithe Long Island ronmental ProtecSound Futures Fund tion Agency, the U.S. projects. Nearly $3 Fish and Wildlife million will go to Service and the municipalities and Long Island Sound organizations in the Funders Collabora3rd Congressional t ive. Re c i p i e n t s District, including HEATHER include the Village the Village of Sea of Sea Cliff, for conJOHNSON Cliff and Friends of tinued monitoring Executive director, the Bay. of Hempstead Har“I’ve been work- Friends of the Bay bor; Friends of the ing on this for the Bay, for expanding past 30 years,” oyster spawning sanctuaries in Suozzi said. “The main issue Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harwith the Sound has been hypox- bor; the Citizens Campaign Fund ia, along with removing nitrogen for the Environment, for envifrom the water.” ronmental education; and the Suozzi is co-chair of the Long Island Sound Caucus. When he CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
BY JILL NOSSA
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Here’s to the winners In an exciting and historic title game, the North Shore Vikings held on to a 7-0 lead to defeat the Shoreham-River Wildcats and capture the Long Island championship on Nov. 27. The team celebrated the win at a pep rally last Friday.
Despite the pandemic, business is good for O.B. chocolatier BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
As the U.S. works toward full economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a Glen Head resident says sales of her specialty chocolates are actually booming in post-lockdown Oyster Bay. Katya Witthuhn opened Bluebird Chocolates on Sept. 24, focusing primarily on wholesale and special orders of hand-crafted, artisanal chocolate. “After my daughter was born,
I was looking into changing my career,” Witthuhn said. “I wanted to do something I was interested in, something I was passionate about.” With the support of her husband, Brian, Witthuhn abruptly abandoned a career in trade credit insurance, enrolling in the pastry program at the Institute of Culinary Education, named the Culinary School of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals in 2015, 2011, 2008 and 2003, from
which she eventually graduated first in her class. “I thought of going into wedding cakes when I was in school,” Witthuhn said. “But when we got to chocolate, something just clicked with me and here we are.” Witthuhn’s shop, at 8 Audrey Ave., next door to Periwinkles Catering Co., features her uniquely crafted, colorful sweets made with Valrhona chocolate, which Witthuhn regards as an CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
he grant can play a pivotal role in helping to turn around the decline in the shellfish population in the estuary.