National Guard members spend countless hours every year training for the next big mission. For Army Spc.
From the tower, she saw three decades of autumns characterized by water "boiling" with schools of fish and fishermen shoulder-to-shoulder along the shoreline. She stood in the lantern room of the Montauk Lighthouse as snow swirled around her during Long Island's powerful winter storms.
Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins submitted public comments to the United States Coast Guard recently declaring her staunch opposition to the their proposal to establish ten or more new barge anchorage sites on the Hudson River between Yonkers and Kingston. Senator Stewart-Cousins represents the Hudson River communities that would be most affected by the installation of these anchorages.