Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies today, with a high temperature near 64 degrees and a northeast wind around 7 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 46. Thursday will be partly sunny, with a high near 63, and Friday will be partly sunny, with a high near 61.
• Christopher Bianchi has only been in Greenport since August of 2022, but you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d lived here forever. As the reference and local history librarian at Greenport’s Floyd Memorial Library, his local knowledge runs deep, and his new podcast series for the library interviewing Greenport residents has become the talk of the town. Read More.
• Tara Rider, Ph.D. from the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences will present her lecture “The Swashbuckling History of Women in Piracy” at this evening’s 7 p.m. SoMAS lecture series in Chancellor’s Hall at Stony Brook Southampton. Here’s More Info.
• What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a bike when the wheel runs out of true? Or with a sweater full of moth holes? Toss it? No way! North Fork Environmental Council is organizing its sixth Repair Café at the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport on Saturday, May 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. Find Out More.
• The Peconic Baykeeper is sponsoring a Septic Upgrade Outreach Panel next Wednesday May 8 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Cutchogue New Suffolk Library. Panel will include Al Krupski, Pete Topping, Bob DeLuca, and representatives of Advanced Wastewater Systems, the Suffolk County Dept of Health, and the Peconic Estuary Partnership. It’s free but registration is required at peconicbaykeeper.org.
• Southold’s First Universalist Church will hold a Spring Gala to benefit the reconstruction of its church, which burned down in a fire several years ago, on Friday, May 10 at 6 p.m. at Townsend Manor in Greenport. More details are at FirstUniversalistSouthold.org.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
May 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 4:04 a.m., 4:51 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3:12 a.m., 3:59 p.m.
Greenport: 4:41 a.m., 5:28 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:28 a.m., 6:13 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:36 a.m., 5:23 p.m.
New Suffolk: 6:03 a.m., 6:50 p.m.
South Jamesport: 6:10 a.m., 6:57 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 3:01 a.m., 3:45 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 1:10 a.m., 1:54 p.m.
May 2
Plum Gut Harbor: 5:13 a.m., 5:54 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 4:21 a.m., 5:02 p.m.
Greenport: 5:50 a.m., 6:31 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 6:35 a.m., 7:14 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 5:45 a.m., 6:26 p.m.
New Suffolk: 7:12 a.m., 7:53 p.m.
South Jamesport: 7:19 a.m., 8 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 4:04 a.m., 4:47 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 2:13 a.m., 2:56 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.
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