Honoring the Fallen, Science Center Showdown, ELIH Blood Drive, Reflections on Being Thrown Out of the Nest
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting partly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 78 degrees and a calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 miles per hour in the afternoon. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 58. We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies on Wednesday, with a high near 81, and mostly sunny skies on Thursday, with a high near 77.
• We got a chance to be with what seemed like the entire community of Southold in the pouring rain Monday morning to pay homage to those who lost their lives in service to our country. See Our Video.
• The Riverhead Town Board seemed unmoved by hours of comment at a public hearing last Wednesday evening on its plan to take the property adjacent to the Town Square owned by the Long Island Science Center through eminent domain. The hearing has been kept open for written comments through May 30. Read More.
• The Southampton Town Board holds a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting today on acquisition of 1.3 acres of land at 129 Phillips Avenue in Riverside for $185,000 in CPF funds for Water Quality Improvement Purposes. Here’s the agenda, here’s the public hearing packet, and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
• Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.
• During a major life change, Beacon columnist Dave Davis reflects this month on advice from Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön: “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Read this month’s Dave’s Desk@Ditch.
• Tonight is the fifteenth iteration of the Nameless Writers Salon at the Sound View in Greenport, with authors named Chris Pavone, Annie Hartnett, Brooke Lea Foster and Jennifer O’Brien reading from 6 to 8 p.m. Find Out More.
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The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
May 26
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:25 a.m., 7:42 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:15 a.m., 6:40 p.m.
Greenport: 8:11 a.m., 8:25 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:41 a.m., 8:58 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:09 a.m., 8:23 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:06 a.m., 9:31 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:16 a.m., 9:36 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 5:53 a.m., 6:31 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:31 a.m., 5:03 p.m.
May 27
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:19 a.m., 8:24 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:06 a.m., 7:24 p.m.
Greenport: 9:03 a.m., 9:09 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:34 a.m., 9:46 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:01 a.m., 9:06 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:57 a.m., 10:15 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:11 a.m., 10:21 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:48 a.m., 7:18 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:22 a.m., 5:48 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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