Grace Vander Voort, Civic Activist, Dies at 92

Grace Vander Voort, a longtime advocate for the environment and for small businesses in the community, died Feb. 9 at the age of 92, The Village Times Herald reported Thursday.

A resident of the Three Village community for more than 50 years, Vander Voort took on big-box stores she thought would damage small business; helped preserve West Meadow Beach as a public resource; fought commercial dredging in Mt. Sinai harbor; and advocated for the creation of a waste treatment facility at Stony Brook University, according to the report.

Fellow civic advocate Herb Mones told The Village Times Herald that "she really loved the Three Villages and everything about them — the people and places that were there."

Click here to read the full obituary from The Village Times Herald.