Blood Drives in Trauma Season, LI Science Center Hearing, Land Clearing, Inside Steinbeck’s Studio
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting increasing clouds today, with a high temperature in the mid-80s and a 30 percent chance of afternoon and evening showers, with evening thunderstorms also possible. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 59. Thursday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 69, and Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 70.
• The New York Blood Center is urgently calling on New Yorkers to donate blood ahead of Memorial Day weekend as the region faces dangerously low blood collections at the start of the summer “trauma season.” There are numerous local blood drive across the East End in the upcoming week, including one today from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Hampton Bays Public Library. Find Out More.
• The Southold Town Board will discuss a proposed land clearing code, a draft floor plan for the Town Hall Annex bank area, the towns’ internship program and Memorial Day and America 250 events at its 9 a.m. work session in the Town Hall Annex basement meeting room this morning. The board holds public hearings on a bond for improvements to the Fishers Island Ferry District terminal and Community Development Block Grant funding for the town’s Human Resource Center in Mattituck at its 6 p.m. regular meeting this evening in the auditorium at the Peconic Lane Community Center. Agendas and meeting files can be found online here. Here’s the Zoom login for the work session, and for the regular meeting.
• The Riverhead Town Board holds public hearings on the proposed condemnation of the Long Island Science Center property on the Riverhead Town Square and changes to the uses allowed in the town’s retail outlet zoning district at its 6 p.m. meeting this evening. Here’s the agenda, here are more details on the public hearings, and the meeting can be viewed live here.
• Group for the East End hosts a First Time Birders Hour this Thursday, May 21 at 11 a.m. at Downs Farm Preserve in Cutchogue, where attendees can learn how to identify commonly found birds. Find Out More.
• This coming weekend is one of just a few opportunities each year to get a look inside Nobel-winning author John Steinbeck’s house and writing studio in Sag Harbor, which is now a retreat for authors. Here’s More Info.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
May 20
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:54 a.m., 1:38 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:06 a.m., 12:38 p.m.
Greenport: 1:46 a.m., 2:35 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:33 a.m., 3:10 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:37 a.m., 2:24 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:57 a.m., 3:29 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:14 a.m., 3:57 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:09 a.m., 12:56 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 11:15 am., 11:36 p.m.
May 21
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:56 a.m., 2:41 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:07 a.m., 1:39 p.m.
Greenport: 2:46 a.m., 3:40 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:31 a.m., 4:09 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:37 a.m., 3:31 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:58 a.m., 4:30 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:11 a.m., 4:55 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 1:10 a.m., 1:58 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:13 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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