Good Morning!
• We’re expecting partly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 57 degrees and a south wind 5 to 7 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 45 and a 40 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2 a.m. We’re expecting cloudy skies on Wednesday, with a steady temperature around 46 degrees and a chance of showers or drizzle. Thursday will be cloudy, with a high near 58 and showers likely, mainly after 2 p.m.
• The North Fork Arts Center, a new non-profit that is working to raise $1 million to launch a community arts center at the historic Greenport Theater, is planning a Volunteer Day on Saturday, April 15, to encourage residents to join the effort to revive the theater as a new cultural arts center. Read More.
• The East Hampton Town Board will discuss code changes regarding geocubes — sand-filled used for coastal reinforcement — at its 11 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.
• The Riverhead Town Board will hold public hearings at its 2 p.m. meeting this afternoon on a special permit application from the Dimon Estate (formerly the Jamesport Manor Inn) to build a 6,000-square-foot catering room on site; on two water main extensions; and on a special permit for a two-story addition at 644 Roanoke Avenue. They’re also slated to vote on a new battery energy storage code. Here’s the agenda, here’s more info on the public hearings, and here’s the Zoom login info. The meeting can also be viewed live here.
• This evening at 7 p.m. PM, Dr. Christopher Gobler of SoMAS at Stony Brook Southampton will present his annual lecture “State of the Bays, 2023: Love Where You Live.” The lecture will take place in person in Duke Lecture Hall inside Chancellor’s Hall on the SBU Southampton campus & on Zoom. Attendees will also have a chance to discuss research projects with students who will present posters explaining their work from 7 to 7:30 p.m. and again from 8:30 to 9 p.m.
• The Quogue Wildlife Refuge holds its monthly Full Moon Night Hike this evening at 7:30 p.m. Here’s more info.
• Chabad of the Hamptons hosts a Community Seder to celebrate the first day of Passover tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Here’s how to RSVP.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
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.
April 5
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:20 a.m., 10:34 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:28 a.m., 9:42 p.m.
Greenport: 10:57 a.m., 11:11 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 11:49 a.m.
Sag Harbor: 10:52 a.m., 11:06 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:19 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:04 a.m., 12:26 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 9:19 a.m., 9:42 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 7:28 a.m., 7:51 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
