Red Hook Sludge Plan Sparks Community Divide and Debate
In Red Hook, opposition grows to EPA plans to create a Confined Disposal Facility and donate land to GBX owner John Quadrozzi Jr. The essay argues against gifting land to a private party, urges community control, highlights past Sandy recovery unity, and suggests donating half the land to a local trust for broad benefit.
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Residents rally as LICH closure debates roil Brooklyn
Readers flood the Star Revue with letters praising investigative reporting on SUNY LICH and urging state intervention. Nurses describe stress and patient lives at risk while critics accuse political maneuvering and crony ties behind hospital threats to close.
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