Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies this morning, gradually becoming sunny, with a high temperature near 55 degrees and a north wind 6 to 11 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 36. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 52, and Thursday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 56.
• Greenport Village elections are today from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Third Street Firehouse. Here’s our coverage of the March 6 debate between the five official candidates for two seats on the board, and here’s more info about a new write-in candidate and controversy over one of the candidate’s indebtedness to the village.
• Southampton voters also go to the polls today from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. for a special election to fill the vacancy left by former Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni’s election to the New York State Assembly. Here’s our coverage of the League of Women Voters’ debate between the two candidates. You can look up your polling place here.
• We’ll have more coverage on the results of the two races above right here at eastendbeacon.com later this evening.
• The Southold Town Board will discuss shorebird fencing, beach permits, the town’s hazard mitigation plan and infrastructure capital projects, updating the town’s solid waste management plan, removal of a requirement that a certificate of occupancy be in place for three years before an accessory building can be used as an apartment, and upcoming public outreach for the town’s zoning update at its 9 a.m. work session this morning. The board also has a public hearing scheduled on Community Development Block Grant funding at its 7 p.m. regular meeting this evening. Here’s the agenda for both meetings, here’s the Zoom login for the work session, and for the evening meeting.
• The East Hampton Town Board will hear updates from the Montauk Historical Society, from the town’s Human Services and Recreation departments, on this year’s First Time Homebuyer Assistance Program, and will discuss the March 6 public hearing on the town’s gross floor area formula at its 11 a.m. work session this morning at town hall. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.
• The Shelter Island Town Board will discuss a “work boat proposal” from Harbor Master Payne, an outdoor assembly application from the library and an extension of a memorandum of understanding with Cornell Cooperative Extension at its 1 p.m. regular meeting this afternoon. Here’s the agenda, and here’s the Zoom login.
• The Riverhead Town Board meets this evening at 6 p.m. There are no public hearings scheduled. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.
• Looking ahead to tomorrow, the Town of Southampton is holding a community workshop on the new Riverside Sewer District at the David W. Crohan Center at 655 Flanders Road in Flanders at 7 p.m. Here’s More Info.
• “I feel now, more than ever, it is imperative that we find healthy, effective ways to process the headwinds before us. Uncertainty is a natural part of life, yet how we choose to deal with it often defines our degree of well-being”. So writes Dave Davis in this month’s Dave’s Desk@Ditch, “Luck of the Algorithms.”
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
March 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:01 a.m., 1:29 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:09 a.m., 12:37 p.m.
Greenport: 1:38 a.m., 2:06 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:23 a.m., 2:53 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:33 a.m., 2:01 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3 a.m., 3:28 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:07 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:04 a.m., 12:20 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:29 a.m., 10:47 p.m.
March 19
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:43 a.m., 2:14 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:51 a.m., 1:22 p.m.
Greenport: 2:20 a.m., 2:51 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:01 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:15 a.m., 2:46 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:42 a.m., 4:13 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:49 a.m., 4:20 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:38 a.m., 1 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 11:09 a.m., 11:24 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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