Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 53 degrees and a south wind 8 to 17 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 44. We’re expecting partly sunny skies on Tuesday, with a high near 55 and a southwest wind 7 to 9 miles per hour. It will be cloudy on Wednesday, with a high near 55 and a 40 percent chance of showers.
• This May will be the first spring turkey hunting season in Suffolk County, as the wild turkey population here has ballooned in recent years. This proposal has proved most controversial in East Hampton Town, which is planning to open up 19 of its nature preserves to hunting for the month of May, excluding May 25 through 29 — Memorial Day Weekend, when town trails are often packed with visitors. Read More.
• The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and North Fork, along with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and the Rogers Memorial Library, are co-sponsoring a live program, “A Salute to Nursing Past and Present,” this evening from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the library. Here’s more info.
• At Peconic Dish columnist Alison Boyd’s first Polish Easter on the North Fork, she was served delicious smoked and fresh kielbasa from the Euro Deli on Pulaski Street in Riverhead. It was only recently that she found her way in person to the store and was amazed by the array of freshly made and imported foods on sale. She incorporates those foods into a delicious Easter dinner recipe this year. Read more on our sister website, The Peconic Dish.
• The Hamptons Observatory hosts a Zoom Lecture on Spring Celestial Events with NASA Solar System Ambassador William Taylor tomorrow 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:
April 3
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:07 a.m., 9:22 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 8:15 a.m., 8:30 p.m.
Greenport: 9:44 a.m., 9:59 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:30 a.m., 10:51 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:39 a.m., 9:54 p.m.
New Suffolk: 11:06 a.m., 11:21 p.m.
South Jamesport: 11:13 a.m., 11:28 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 8:03 a.m., 8:33 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 6:12 a.m., 6:42 p.m.
April 4
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:44 a.m., 9:58 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 8:52 a.m., 9:06 p.m.
Greenport: 10:21 a.m., 10:35 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 11:10 a.m., 11:28 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 10:16 a.m., 10:30 p.m.
New Suffolk: 11:43 a.m., 11:57 p.m.
South Jamesport: 11:50 a.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 8:42 a.m., 9:09 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 6:51 a.m., 7:18 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
