This Morning’s Bulletin — 8.1.23

Good Morning!

• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 79 degrees and a north wind around 9 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 59. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 81, and Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 82.

• The East Hampton Town Board is slated to hear updates on the town Housing Authority’s projects, municipal septic projects and a site feasibility assessment for the New York State Energy Research & Development agency at its 11 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.

• The Riverhead Town Board is slated to hold several public hearings, including one on regulating electric scooters and ebikes, at its 2 p.m. regular meeting today. Here’s the agenda, here are more details on the public hearings, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

• The Shelter Island Town Board will discuss water conservation efforts and water quality projects at its 1 p.m. work session this afternoon. Here’s the agenda and here’s where to watch the meeting live or log in via Zoom.

• The New York Blood Center will hold a blood drive today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Tanger Outlets 2, 200 Tanger Mall Drive in Riverhead. Appointments are recommended and can be made online here.

• The Sag Harbor Firemen’s Carnival starts this evening at Havens Beach, Havens Beach Road in Sag Harbor from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly through Saturday, Aug. 5. Fireworks will be held on Friday, Aug. 4. More details are at sagharborfd.org.

• “Tales from the Guttenberg Bible,” a farcical, laugh-out-loud story journeying from Steve Guttenberg’s family home on Long Island to the glamour of Hollywood, opens this evening at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, with showtimes at 7 p.m. Sundays & Tuesdays through Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays   & Saturdays and 2 p.m. matinees Wednesdays and Sundays through Aug. 27. More details are at baystreet.org.

• Tonight is not only a Supermoon, which is a full moon that occurs when the moon is closest to the earth, but it’s also a Blue Moon — the second full moon this month will be on Aug. 30. The Quogue Wildlife Refuge is celebrating with a Full Moon Night Hike this evening at 8 p.m. [$20, $10/Members, Registration Required, more details are at quoguewildliferefuge.org] and the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt hold a free night hike from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. this evening at the South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton. More details are at longpondgreenbelt.org.

The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:

August 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:55 a.m., 10:19 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:03 a.m., 9:27 p.m.
Greenport: 10:32 a.m., 10:56 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 11:38 a.m., 11:56 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 10:27 a.m., 10:51 p.m.
New Suffolk: 11:54 a.m.
South Jamesport: 12:01 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 9:15 a.m., 9:36 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 7:24 a.m., 7:45 p.m.

August 2
Plum Gut Harbor: 10:48 a.m., 11:12 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 9:56 a.m., 10:20 p.m.
Greenport: 11:25 a.m., 11:49 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:30 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 11:20 a.m., 11:44 p.m.
New Suffolk: 12:18 a.m., 12:47 p.m.
South Jamesport: 12:25 a.m., 12:54 p.m.
Shinn. Bay Entrance: 10:07 a.m., 10:27 p.m.
Shinn. Inlet: 8:16 a.m., 8:36 p.m.

And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today.