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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.15.14

January 15, 2014January 21, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4495" align="alignnone" width="600"] Downs Creek Duck Hunt[/caption] Good morning! Here are some tidbits from your friendly local governments' work yesterday: • East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell has sent a letter to State Assemblyman Robert Sweeney in support of a change in state law that would allow East End towns to allow bowhunters to hunt within 150 feet of houses. They're currently required to hunt at least 500 feet from

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.14.14

January 14, 2014January 21, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4477" align="alignright" width="600"] Boulder on the Sound[/caption] Good morning! [caption id="attachment_4480" align="alignright" width="200"] Sadie goes home | Courtesy Rick Kedenburg[/caption] • Sadie the Rag-Tag Swan, who was found stuck to the ice outside Goldsmith Inlet in Peconic last Wednesday, returned home Sunday morning, after spending a few days recuperating at Rick & Linda Kedenburg's house. Mr. Kedenburg said Sadie was "healthy as a horse and hissing at me" when

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.13.14

January 13, 2014January 21, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4467" align="alignnone" width="600"] Lee Zeldin kicks off his congressional campaign | Courtesy Lee Zeldin for Congress[/caption] Good morning! • We're expecting temperatures of near 50 degrees under sunny skies today, and it's promising to be the most pleasant day of the week. Pack your jogging shoes and do a couple speedwalking laps around the office on your lunch break. • Just when you thought we'd finished a season of

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.12.14

January 12, 2014January 13, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4439" align="alignnone" width="600"] John Aldridge | Coast Guard photo[/caption] Good morning! • Variety is reporting that Harvey Weinstein has won the rights to Paul Tough's story of the survival and rescue of Montauk fisherman John Aldridge last summer, which was the cover story of last Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The entertainment trade magazine said one of Mr. Weinstein's producers, Rachel Horovitz, was in East Hampton while the Coast Guard was

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.11.14

January 11, 2014January 13, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4416" align="alignnone" width="600"] Today's Peconic Bay[/caption] Good morning! • The National Weather Service has issued both a flood watch and a wind advisory for today. Heavy rains are expected to begin at about 11 a.m. and one-and-a-half to two inches of rain are expected to fall by the end of the night. With many areas still iced over, NWS is anticipating some "ice jam flooding" and flooding around banks

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.10.14

January 10, 2014January 13, 2014 East End Beacon

[caption id="attachment_4394" align="alignnone" width="600"] Sadie the Rag Tag Swan with her new friend Henry J. Heron | Courtesy Rick Kedenburg[/caption] Good morning! The Tale of Sadie the Rag Tag Swan of Peconic continued on Thursday, after birders Rick and Linda Kedenburg found the swan stuck to the ice outside Goldsmith Inlet. The two experienced wildlife rehabilitators took the swan home Wednesday to keep it warm through the deep-frozen night. They

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.9.14

January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4356" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chilling on Quantuck Creek, Quogue[/caption] It's been tough to be a bird over the past few days, as Rick and Linda Kedenburg of Peconic well know. Just before sunset yesterday, the two North Fork Audubon Society leaders got a call that the lone swan that's been wandering around Goldsmith Inlet and Autumn Pond all fall and winter was trapped in the ice of the Long Island

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.8.14

January 8, 2014January 9, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4342" align="alignnone" width="600"] Forge Pond in Ice, Riverhead[/caption] Good morning! It's 9 degrees in Riverhead just shy of 6 a.m., and we're expecting temperatures to rise only to the mid-20s today. The polar vortex will be heading outa here tomorrow and we're expecting temperatures in the 50s by the weekend. Here's your morning update: • East Hampton Town is considering raising the cost of landfill permit fees, due to

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Morning Bulletin — 1.7.14

January 7, 2014January 13, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4320" align="alignnone" width="600"] Pig & Tractor[/caption] Good Chilly Morning! • Schools throughout the East End will have a delayed start this morning, in the hopes that roads will have been sanded to protect motorists from ice that built up after the temperature plummeted last night. Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Southampton, Mattituck, Amagansett, Montauk, Southold, Greenport, Oysterponds and Riverhead all have confirmed a two-hour delayed start today, and other districts

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.6.14

January 6, 2014January 7, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4310" align="alignnone" width="600"] Just another Mattituck Sunday[/caption] Good morning! [caption id="attachment_4312" align="alignright" width="150"] Chris Huh illustration of a True's Beaked Whale in size comparison to a human.[/caption] • A True's Beaked Whale, one of the rarest species of whale in the ocean, washed up on the ocean beach in Southampton Village yesterday. A runner on the beach called in to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Preservation and Research to

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This Morning’s Bulletin — 1.5.14

January 5, 2014January 7, 2014 Beth Young

[caption id="attachment_4286" align="alignnone" width="600"] It's a fox's curled up world.[/caption] There's just one day left of winter break for kids on the East End, and it's going to be a good one for taking stock in the year we've just left behind. • Final real estate sales figures for last year aren't in yet, but Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund revenues through October put the state of the market in