Good Morning!
• We’re expecting showers and possibly a thunderstorm today, mainly before 11 a.m., with cloudy skies, a high temperature near 61 degrees and a northwest wind 6 to 10 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 40. We’re expecting light rain Saturday, with a high near 52, and a 50 percent chance of showers on Sunday, with a high near 60.
• While researchers along the East Coast have been documenting an “unusual whale mortality event” since 2016, there is a lot of good news to be told. Whale biologists have seen an unprecedented number of whales feeding in the waters off of Montauk in recent years. Read More.
• Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the first ever Suffolk County Southern Pine Beetle Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 23 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Suffolk County Community College’s Riverhead Campus. Read More.
• The Village of Greenport is planning to begin the work to update its 1970s-era ethics policy in April and to seek a new Village Administrator, after a March 18 village election that was marked by the mayor’s unveiling of a six-figure indebtedness of one board member to the village and allegations by a former village code enforcement officer of the mayor’s mishandling of several code enforcement issues. Read Our Full Coverage.
• The Greenport Village Planning Board is urging residents to share their “views, thoughts, concerns and ideas relating to the village’s zoning code and economic and residential development in the village” at its next meeting, this afternoon, April 4 at 4 p.m. at the Third Street Firehouse. Emailed thoughts are also welcome addressed to the Clerk to the Boards, Michael Noone, at mnoone@greenportvillage.org.
• East End Arts in Riverhead will present Finding Qi, a gallery exhibition of artwork by internationally acclaimed Chinese scholar and North Fork resident Robert Oxnam , opening tomorrow at its two downtown Riverhead galleries at 133 East Main Street and 11 West Main Street. Read More.
• Master Magicians Jim Vines, Carl Mercurio and Kristen Geek will perform a Family Magic Show: Broadway Magic Hour at the North Fork Community Theatre this weekend to benefit the NFCT renovation campaign. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4 & Saturday, April 5 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 5. Find Out More.
• For the first time ever, OLA of Eastern Long Island’s cultural event, Pachanga — featuring Latin rhythms, dancing, food, and drink — will take place in Riverhead at the atmospheric Suffolk Theater on April 5, transforming the venue for a night at an old-style club in the tropics. Read More.
• This year’s Tolling of the Boats memorial by the U.S. Submarine Veterans Long Island Base will be held Sunday, April 6, promptly at 11:30 a.m. at New Suffolk Beach. All are welcome to this community event.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
April 4
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:16a.m., 3:51 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 2:24 a.m., 2:59 p.m.
Greenport: 3:53 a.m., 4:28 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:41 a.m., 5:25 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:48 a.m., 4:23 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:15 a.m., 5:50 p.m.
South Jamesport: 5:22 a.m., 5:57 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 2:24 a.m., 3:06 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:33 a.m., 1:15 p.m.
April 5
Plum Gut Harbor: 4:29 a.m., 5:03 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3:37 a.m., 4:11 p.m.
Greenport: 5:06 a.m., 5:40 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:49 a.m., 6:33 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 5:01 a.m., 5:35 p.m.
New Suffolk: 6:28 a.m., 7:02 p.m.
South Jamesport: 6:35 a.m., 7:09 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 3:25 a.m., 4:08 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 1:34 a.m., 2:17 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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