May Day, Environmental Expo, Dandelion Festival and a Lot of Details About a Sewer Plant
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature around 60 degrees and a west wind 6 to 8 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 45 and a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 a.m. Saturday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 58 and a 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2 p.m. Sunday will be partly sunny, with a high near 59 and a 30 percent chance of showers before 2 p.m.
• Southampton Town gave residents of Riverside a look at some of the practical aspects of its new $44 million sewer district Wednesday evening. The town’s consultants say they anticipate the system coming online in late 2029 or early 2030. Read More.
• Today is International Workers Day, also known as May Day, a celebration of workers that this year is the subject of several events across the East End. The East End Visibility Brigade will hold a rally at noon outside the Supreme Court on Griffing Avenue in Riverhead seeking support for OLA’s Public Safety Law in Riverhead, followed by a picnic at Indian Island County Park at 1:30 p.m. The North Fork Action Center holds an International Workers Day Teach-In from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Southold Unitarian Universalist Meeting House. Here’s More Info.
• Southold Town is holding an Environmental Expo and Repair Café with the North Fork Environmental Council on Saturday, May 2 from Noon to 4 p.m. at the town’s Peconic Lane Recreation Center. Find Out More.
• The Southold PBA holds a New York Blood Center blood drive tomorrow, May 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Greenport Harbor Brewing Company, 42155 Main Road in Peconic. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.
• OLA of Eastern Long Island holds its annual Pachanga community dance party at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor this Saturday, May 2 at 7 p.m. La Herencia will be playing salsa music all evening in this celebration of unity in our community. Here’s More Info.
• The Dandelion Festival at KK’s The Farm in Southold this Sunday is on a mission to spread the word about the benefits of the dandelion leaf, flower and root, and its vital role as early season food for bees and other pollinators. Stop down any time between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to learn more (Beacon Editor Beth Young and Climate Local Now columnist Mark Haubner join a panel discussion at the festival at 11:30 a.m.). Here’s More Info.
• Also on Sunday, the Perfect Earth Project will hold a Grounded Conversation on Killer Lawns at 4 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Stay tuned today for this month’s Climate Local Now in The Beacon with Melissa Ozawa of the Perfect Earth Project.
• The Beacon’s May print edition will be on newsstands throughout the East End by mid-morning today. Pick up a copy at any of these newsstands.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
May 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:42 a.m., 10:42 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:36 a.m., 9:46 p.m.
Greenport: 11:35 a.m., 11:28 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:09 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:28 a.m., 11:20 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:27 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:10 a.m., 12:44 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 9:30 a.m., 9:46 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 7:59 a.m., 8:18 p.m.
May 2
Plum Gut Harbor: 11:22 a.m., 11:20 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 10:18 a.m., 10:26 p.m.
Greenport: 12:13 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:18 a.m., 12:48 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:03 p.m., 11:52 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:37 a.m., 1:09 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:46 a.m., 1:22 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 10:09 a.m., 10:21 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 8:40 a.m., 8:57 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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