All Hands on Housing, Greenport Spring Cleanup, Star Searching & the American Revolution
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 49 degrees and a 30 percent chance of rain after 2 p.m., with a light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph. We’re expecting overnight rain, with a low around 39. Saturday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 52 and a 30 percent chance of rain before 8 a.m. Sunday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 51.
• It was All Hands on Housing at the East Hampton Town Board’s Tuesday morning work session, as the board discussed several proposed workforce housing ideas, changes to the town’s accessory dwelling unit code and an update on the town’s Route 114 workforce housing development. Read More.
• Greenport Village holds its annual Earth Day Early Spring Cleanup in Moore’s Woods Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to Noon. Meet at the Moore’s Woods Trailhead at the dead end of Webb Street, or at Monsell Trail and North Street. Find Out More.
• The Hampton Bays Hibernians hold their annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, stepping off from Ponquogue Avenue on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. There are also two more chances for St. Pat’s parading on the East End in the upcoming week — in Jamesport on March 28 and the granddaddy of all East End St. Pat’s parades in Montauk on March 29. Find Out More.
• Everyone knows how the U.S. fought the British and won during the American Revolution. But do you know what happened in Southold during the war? Amy Folk, Southold Town Historian, will discuss what happened in Southold during the Revolution in a talk this Saturday at 3 p.m. at Greenport’s Floyd Memorial Library. Find Out More.
• Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead holds its Spring Country Barn Dance on Saturday, March 21 at 6 p.m., with live music and traditional dancing with caller Chart Guthrie. Find Out More.
• Custer Observatory in Southold holds its first-ever Messier Marathon this Saturday evening beginning at 7 p.m. It’s the ultimate deep-sky challenge: Bring your telescope and make an attempt to locate all 110 objects in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of interstellar objects — from galaxies to nebulae — between sunset and sunrise. Find Out More.
• It’s the second of three weekends to see local theater productions of “I Do! I Do!” at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue and “1776” at the North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck. You only have until March 29 to see both shows!
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
March 20
Plum Gut Harbor: 11:32 a.m., 11:49 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 10:36 a.m., 10:57 p.m.
Greenport: 12:21 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 112:45 a.m., 1:11 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:11 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1:06 a.m., 1:27 p.m.
South Jamesport: 1:24 a.m., 1:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 10:35 a.m., 10:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 9:15 a.m., 9:38 p.m.
March 21
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:18 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:21 a.m., 11:43 p.m.
Greenport: 12:34 a.m., 1:06 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:28 a.m., 1:56 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:26 a.m., 12:55 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1L48 a.m., 2:12 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:09 a.m., 2:41 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:21 a.m., 11:40 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10 a.m., 10:24 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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