This Morning’s Bulletin — 4.30.15

April 30, 2015May 3, 2015 Beth Young 0 Comments

John Steinbeck at his dock on the Sag Harbor Cove

Good Morning!

* Today will be partly sunny, with a high near 58 degrees and an east wind around 10 miles per hour. Tonight will be mostly cloudy, with a low around 41 degrees and a northeast wind around 10 miles per hour. Friday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 54 degrees, Saturday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 60 degrees and Sunday is expected to be mostly sunny, with a high near 66 degrees.

• Riverside community members are planning to join Renaissance Downtowns to present the Riverside Revitalization Action Plan to the Southampton Town Board this morning at 11 a.m. Car pools are leaving Riverside at 10:15 a.m. For more information, call Siris Barrios at 631.591.3926.

• The Suffolk County Historical Museum in Riverhead hosts a roundtable discussion of the region’s continued great tradition of boatbuilding tonight at 6 p.m. Panelists will include Donn Costanzo of Wooden Boat Works in Greenport, Nancy Solomon of Long Island Traditions, and Kevin Weeks of Weeks Boatyard in Patchogue, to name a few. This discussion is in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition, “From Shore to Shore: Boatbuilders and Boatyards of Long Island. More information is online here.

• Sag Harbor hosts its second annual weekend full of events honoring writer John Steinbeck this weekend, with lectures, celebrations and a dog walk around town. Mr. Steinbeck spent most of his later years in the South Fork’s whaling village, which served as the basis for his novel “The Winter of Our Discontent” and as the home base for his story “Travels With Charley,” in which he set off across the country on a journey with his standard poodle, Charley. More information on the weekend’s festivities is online here.

• Chris Cryder, Special Projects Coordinator for Save the Sound, will present a virtual tour of Plum Island, home to the nation’s federal animal disease laboratory off the coast of Southold, using new imagery taken by photographer Robert Lorenz, at the Floyd Memorial Library at 6 p.m. tomorrow night. More information is online here.

• The Riverhead Town Board has a work session scheduled for 10 a.m. today, but they have not posted a public agenda as of this morning.

And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.