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Composting raises questions in Sea Cliff find the ideal location for composting to take place and to determine who will oversee it. Sea Cliff made history in There are 161 food scrap drop2018 when it became the first off locations and 32 food scrap village in Nassau County to collection services in New York ban the use of single-use food State, according to the Departpackaging and plastic straws, ment of Environmental Conservation. Long as well as cof fee Island has only four stirrers and cutlery, locations accessible in local eateries. to residents — most N e a rly s eve n of which are in the years after the ban, East End. The closthe village remains est food scrap dropat the forefront of off to Sea Cliff is environmental Brooklyn-based BK issues, according to Rot. Mayor Elena VillaVillafane noted fane. However, one during the July 7 of the issues that Board of Trustees comes with trying meeting enthusito do something for asm for composting the first time is that ElENa VIllaFaNE is “gaining some it has never been Mayor, velocity.” “It’s not done before, resultan insubstantial ing in questions Sea Cliff issue,” she said. when it comes to “It’s an issue that’s composting in the village. Composting is the natural on the minds of a lot of people process of recycling organic in the village because you hear matter, such as food scraps and people talk about it.” However, village officials yard waste, into a nutrient-rich soil amendment known as com- made it clear that implementpost. The waste management ing a municipal food waste proprocedure can be done on an gram will require careful planindividual basis or on a large ning and cannot happen at the Department of Public Works scale. The village has struggled to Continued on page 7
By lUKE FEENEY
lfeeney@liherald.com
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Courtesy Peter Johnson
Boyle was in action during the evening of July 11 at Campground Craft Beer and Coffee, a half bar, half retail store in Sea Cliff. the event, ‘shuck around and find out,’ went from 5-9 p.m.
Oyster shucker draws crowd Village events serve up fresh taste and personality By lUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
Keenan Boyle prides himself on his height and his ability to shuck oysters. “I figured I would just put the two together,” he said in a phone interview a from his boat on the Great South Bay, a 45-mile-long lagoon situated between Long and Fire Island. “That way people can remember that I was that tall mother shucker that they saw at the party.” The 6 feet 7 inches tall shucker started with oysters around 2005 when he became SCUBA certified to dive for “wild” oysters on the Long Island Sound according to his
website. He traveled to oyster farms along the east and west coasts of the United States to learn how to successfully grow oysters for market, then he started working as a farmer at one of the Town of Islip’s first aquaculture leases in the Great South Bay. Boyle also worked for wholesale companies purchasing oysters from different parts of the country, Mexico, Canada, and New Zealand to sell to chefs at high-end restaurants. He said sales demonstrations of oysters from the different regions helped him become a knowledgeable shucker. “What I found is that people are more starved for fresh oysters here,” he said. Continued on page 12
t’s an issue that’s on the minds of a lot of people in the village because you hear people talk about it.