The next meeting of Suffolk County Department of Health Services’ Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Subcommittee of the Community Mental Hygiene Advisory Board is scheduled for:

A meeting of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Health Center Advisory Board is scheduled to be held on:

The next meeting of Suffolk County Department of Health Services’ Alcohol and Substance Abuse Subcommittee of the Community Mental Hygiene Advisory Board is scheduled for:

The PEP is an innovative partnership of federal, state and local governments, citizen and environmental groups, businesses, industries and academic institutions.  The Peconic Estuary Program’s priority topics of concern include:  Brown Tide, nutrients, habitat and living resources, pathogens, toxic pollutants and critical lands protection.  Its aim is to promote the health of the estuary and to protect and restore the environmental quality of this extraordinary natural resource.

James L. Tomarken, MD, MPH, MBA, MSW, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, announced today that the beach sampling monitoring and notification program has resumed for the 2012 season.