Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 59 degrees and a west wind 8 to 14 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 35. Tuesday will be sunny, with a high near 55, and Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 48.
Pictured Above: At the Cutchogue St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday.
• The fast-moving Westhampton Pines Fire, which burned through over 600 acres near Gabreski Airport Saturday into Sunday, was 100 percent knocked down, and a containment fire break being dug around the perimeter of the fire led by the New York State DEC was about 20 percent complete Sunday morning. We’ll continue to update this post with more details on this situation.
• Southold Town Democrats unveiled candidates for all 11 town positions up for election this fall at their nominating convention Friday evening, including a candidate for the Fishers Island town board seat long held by Louisa Evans and a town justice who is switching party affiliations. Read More.
• The Southold Town Planning Board will hold a public hearing at its 5 p.m. meeting this evening on a proposed 3 megawatt solar array atop the capped town landfill in Cutchogue. Here’s more info about the application, here’s the agenda for the 5 p.m. meeting, and for the board’s 4 p.m. work session that precedes it.
• Early voting is now underway for the March 18 special election to fill a vacancy on the Southampton Town Board created by former Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni’s election to the state assembly. Former Republican Councilman Rick Martel and Zoning Board member John Leonard, a Democrat, are vying for the seat. Early voting will be held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Westhampton Beach and the Student Activity Center at Stony Brook Southampton through March 16 at these times. Voters can vote at their regular polling place on March 18.
• North Fork Audubon hosts a Zoom presentation about the Bay to Sound Trail, connecting public parks and preserves between Peconic Bay and the Long Island Sound, this evening at 7 p.m. Here’s More Info.
• The Beacon’s Week in Review was delivered piping hot to inboxes throughout the East End in the wee hours of Sunday morning. To get your own copy each week, sign up here.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
March 10
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:05 a.m., 8:20 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:13 a.m., 7:28 p.m.
Greenport: 8:42 a.m., 8:57 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:26 a.m., 9:56 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:37 a.m., 8:52 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:04 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:11 a.m., 10:26 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7 a.m., 7:34 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:09 a.m., 5:43 p.m.
March 11
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:50 a.m., 9:02 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:58 a.m., 8:10 p.m.
Greenport: 9:27 a.m., 9:39 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:19 a.m., 10:44 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:22 a.m., 9:34 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:49 a.m., 11:01 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:56 a.m., 11:08 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:54 a.m., 8:23 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 6:03 a.m., 6:32 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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