This Morning’s Bulletin — 4.7.22

Good Morning!

• We’re expecting cloudy skies today, with a high temperature near 49 degrees and a 40 percent chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 5 p.m. We’re expecting showers and possibly a thunderstorm overnight, with a steady temperature around 49 and an east wind 13 to 20 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 31 miles per hour. Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 59. We’re expecting scattered showers on Saturday, mainly between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., with partly sunny skies and a high near 54.

• Boots on the Ground Theater is putting up a new production of “The Agitators,” about the lifelong friendship between Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony at Riverhead’s Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, opening this Friday, April 8, and the organizers are working to bring a sense of immediacy and humanity to a friendship that is as relevant today as it was in the 19th Century. Read More.

• The Riverhead Town Board will discuss the town’s Comprehensive Plan Update at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the presentation, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

• The East Hampton Town Board will hold public hearings on amendments to the town code regarding the airport and the outdoor dining pilot program, as well as on management plans for the Fresh Pond Road Grassland Preserve and the Goldart Pond Preserve at their 2 p.m. meeting this afternoon. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

The Stony Brook School of Health Professions Center for Community Engagement will hold a Free Community Health Fair on Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Scoville Hall at the Amagansett Presbyterian Church, 350 Main St, Amagansett. Here’s more info.

• Suffolk County reported 178 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, April 5, with 2.7 percent of people tested testing positive. There were 53 people hospitalized with the virus in the county, with five of them in ICU. The county reported no new fatalities from the virus, and the death toll here stands at 4,367 people since March of 2020.

The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:

April 7
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:47 a.m., 3:25 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:55 a.m., 2:33 p.m.
Greenport: 3:24 a.m., 4:02 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:02 a.m., 4:45 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:19 a.m., 3:57 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:46 a.m., 5:24 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:53 a.m., 5:31 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 1:38 a.m., 2:26 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 12:35 p.m.

April 8
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:47 a.m., 4:27 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 2:55 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
Greenport: 4:24 a.m., 5:04 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:54 a.m., 5:40 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:19 a.m., 4:59 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:46 a.m., 6:26 p.m.
South Jamesport: 5:53 a.m., 6:33 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 2:25 a.m., 3:17 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 12:34 a.m., 1:26 p.m.

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