Good Morning!
• We’re expecting patchy frost before 8 a.m. today, with otherwise sunny skies and a high temperature near 64 degrees, with a north wind 13 to 16 mph. It will be clear overnight, with a low around 36 and patchy frost after 4 a.m. Saturday will be sunny, with a high near 65, and Sunday will be sunny, with a high near 70.
• The Bridgehampton High School, at 2685 Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton, hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, and the Hampton Bays Fire Department at 106 Ponquogue Avenue also hosts a a NYBC blood drive tomorrow, Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Northeast Stage’s “Playlets & Poetry Festival” kicks off at Greenport’s Holy Trinity Parish Hall, 768 Main St. in Greenpor this evening at 7 p.m., with small plays, adapted literature & spine-tingling autumnal poems this weekend in Greenport and next weekend at the Jamesport Meeting House. Here’s More Info.
• The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month Film Screening of “In the Summers” a bilingual film about two sisters’ formative experiences spending summers with their father in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this evening at 6 p.m. More details are at parrishart.org.
• Shelter Island’s 25th Annual Fall 5K Run/Walk to support the North & South Fork Breast Health Coalitions & Lucia’s Angels will be held tomorrow at Crescent Beach. The race starts at 11 a.m. and a shuttle from the North Ferry runs from 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. More details are at shelterislandfall5k.com
• Halloween Fest in Downtown Riverhead kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday, with coffin races down Main Street at 2 p.m.m followed by trick or treating from 3 to 5 p.m. and a 6 p.m. Halloween parade. downtownriverhead.org/halloween-fest
• Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor hosts an Indie Film Screening and Panel discussion of “Nora,” a new indie film about motherhood and ambition, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m., followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and female creative professionals on the East End. Here’s More Info.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
October 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:44 a.m., 11:11 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:52 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
Greenport: 11:21 a.m., 11:48 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:03 a.m., 12:21 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:16 a.m., 11:43 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:20 a.m., 12:43 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:27 a.m., 12:50 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 10:02 a.m., 10:28 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 8:11 a.m., 8:37 p.m.
October 19
Plum Gut Harbor: 11:36 a.m.
Montauk Harbor: 10:44 a.m., 11:12 p.m.
Greenport: 12:13 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:53 a.m., 1:09 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:08 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1:10 a.m., 1:35 p.m.
South Jamesport: 1:17 a.m., 1:42 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 10:50 a.m., 11:20 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 8:59 a.m., 9:29 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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