Southold To Explore Community Housing on Youngs Ave. & Subdivisions, Riverhead Keeps Talking to Science Center, Western Shinnecock Bay Temporarily Closed to Shellfishing
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting widespread frost early today as the temperature dipped down to around freezing overnight. Skies will be sunny today, with a high temperature near 49 degrees and a calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 miles per hour in the afternoon. It will be mostly clear and calm overnight, with a low around 36. Friday will be sunny, with a high near 55, and Saturday will be start out partly sunny, gradually becoming all sunny, with a high near 56.
Pictured Above: Ready for the frost, Wednesday.
• In what Southold Town Planner Mara Cerezo is calling a “once in a generation planning opportunity,” the Southold Town Board has agreed to ask for help from the state to explore the use of 31.4 acres of town-owned land on Youngs Avenue for community housing. Read More.
• Southold Town is also holding a presentation on “Understanding Subdivisions & Land Preservation in Southold Town” hosted by the North Fork Civics this evening at 6:30 p.m. at Veterans Park in Mattituck. The meeting is also accessible via Zoom here. Find Out More.
• Due to the “potential presence of elevated levels of marine biotoxins in shellfish,” the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued a precautionary closure for the harvest of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods in eastern Shinnecock Bay effective April 8, from the southernmost point of land at Pine Neck Point to the northernmost point of land at the end of Triton Lane. This comes on the heels of a similar shellfishing closure in Southold’s Town, Jockey and Goose Creeks earlier this week, which remain in effect. Find Out More.
• The Westhampton Beach Fire Department at 92 Sunset Avenue hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive today from 1 to 7 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.
• The Riverhead Town Board will hear from Suffolk County and Peconic Land Trust representatives on a possible land preservation opportunity and from the Long Island Science Center, whose building the board had voted to begin condemnation proceedings against on Tuesday, at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.
• The Southampton Town Board will review a draft agenda for its April 14 meeting at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the work session can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
• East End Jazz hosts East Meets West: A Celebration of the 100th birthdays of John Coltrane & Miles Davis a jam session from 2 to 5 p.m. this coming Sunday, April 12, at the Southampton Cultural Center. Find Out More.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
April 9
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:56 a.m., 4:43 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3:02 a.m., 3:38 p.m.
Greenport: 4:16 a.m., 5:16 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:09 a.m., 5:47 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:03 a.m., 4:55 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:53 a.m., 6:29 p.m.
South Jamesport: 5:44 a.m., 6:25 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 2:24 a.m., 3:06 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 1:07 a.m., 1:42 p.m.
April 10
Plum Gut Harbor: 4:58 a.m., 5:40 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 4:04 a.m., 4:37 p.m.
Greenport: 5:17 a.m., 6:16 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 6:07 a.m., 6:45 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 5:04 a.m., 5:59 p.m.
New Suffolk: 6:55 a.m., 7:28 p.m.
South Jamesport: 6:40 a.m., 7:22 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 2:16 a.m., 3:59 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 2:05 a.m., 2:44 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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