Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 22 degrees but wind chill values between -5 and 5, with a north wind 6 to 13 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 10. Thursday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 32, and Friday will be sunny, with a high near 32.
• The Suffolk County Department of Health announced late Tuesday that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, known as “bird flu,” has been found in a commercial poultry flock in Suffolk County. The owners of the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue have confirmed that the outbreak is occurring at their farm. Read More.
• The U.S. Navy has agreed to test private wells near the former Grumman Plant at EPCAL for the toxic chemicals known as PFAS, and will hold an open house to discuss the sampling this evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Residence Inn Long Island at 2012 Old Country Road in Riverhead. The Navy will also hold a Restoration Advisory Board meeting tomorrow, Jan. 23 from 6:15 to 8 p.m., also at the Residence Inn. Here’s More Info.
• Also this evening at 6 p.m. in Riverhead, the Riverhead Town Board will hold a public hearing on approving the site plan for Island Water Park Corp., the owner of Scott’s Pointe in Calverton, which is already operating and was the subject of a recent controversial settlement with the town. Here’s more info about the public hearing, here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.
• Southold Town will open its Community Center at 1170 Peconic Lane as a warming center for the second day in a row today, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. for residents in need of a safe, warm space. Questions can be directed to the Southold Town Police Department’s non-emergency number at 631.765.2600. Riverhead Town will also open a warming center today for the second day in a row at the Riverhead Senior Center at 60 Shade Tree Lane in Aquebogue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Riverhead is also asking those in need of shelter to call the police department’s non-emergency line at 631.727.4500.
• The Shelter Island Public Library is now accepting applications for its fourth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. This grant of $1,000.00 is awarded each April to the annual poetry competition winner. Applicants must be unpublished poets aged 17 or older and reside on the East End of Long Island (Riverhead and points east). Find Out More.
• The new Southold Community Action Center, working on issues central to democracy and human rights, will begin meeting this Friday at 4 p.m., and will continue on the fourth Friday of every month at Unitarian Universalists of the North Fork’s newly rebuilt meeting house on the bend in Southold (51900 Main Road).
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
January 22
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:58 a.m., 4:27 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3:06 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
Greenport: 4:35 a.m., 5:04 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:06 a.m., 5:42 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:30 a.m., 4:59 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:57 a.m., 6:26 p.m.
South Jamesport: 6:04 a.m., 6:33 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 2:45 a.m., 2:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:54 a.m., 1:03 p.m.
January 23
Plum Gut Harbor: 4:56 a.m., 5:28 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 4:04 a.m., 4:36 p.m.
Greenport: 5:33 a.m., 6:05 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 6 a.m., 6:40 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 5:28 a.m., 6 p.m.
New Suffolk: 6:55 a.m., 7:27 p.m.
South Jamesport: 7:02 a.m., 7:34 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 3:32 a.m., 3:49 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 1:41 a.m., 1:58 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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