Word: riverhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign to save what he calls "New York City's breadbasket" right after being elected in 1971. His first step was to set up a twelve-man committee of farmers and charge it with rinding a way to keep the farm lands. John Talmage, 45, a farmer in Riverhead, suggested the development-rights formula. The idea seemed so radical, he recalls, that "I thought it was not salable...
...head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland, Me., it was in effect invited to Searsport, whose selectmen have already approved the 200,000-barrels-a-day refinery. "I'm not for pollution," says Paul Staples, owner of a Searsport hardware store. "But if we don't get some added industry, Searsport...
...Riverhead, N.Y. When residents complained of red and black water with a hydrogen sulfide odor, the town's new treatment plant manager blamed fluoridation. Later investigation by county health officials revealed that a single well was introducing bacteria into the system...