State of the Town Video, The Threads of History and Some Weekend Events
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 85 degrees and a north wind around 6 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11 p.m. and a low temp around 64. Saturday will be sunny, with a high near 82, and Sunday will be partly sunny, with a high also near 82, and a 50 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m.
• Here’s Our Live Video of Southold Town Supervisor Al Krupski’s State of the Town address last night. The supervisor gave an overview of challenges the town has faced in the past year, and projects the town is working on, for about half an hour, before turning the floor over to the audience for questions. A highlight for us — his answer to the final question about why the four-poster tick control program used in some nearby areas wouldn’t work in Southold.
• My great-great aunt Marjorie Tyte was on the Shelter Island Express train that crashed into the Golden Pickle Factory on Aug. 13, 1926. “I don’t understand what’s so “great” about the Great Calverton Pickle Factory Train Wreck,” said my father when pressed for details this week. But her experience is part of a thread that connects us all together. I put some thoughts down on paper about this subject this week.
• We received letters this week on a wide range of topics — from Southampton Village’s proposed new beach parking restrictions to the use of Blind CCs by a Riverhead community activist to town halls for members of Congress. Read This Week’s Letters. We love letters! Email them to editor@eastendbeacon.com with “LTE” in the subject line.
• The Greenport Fire Department Standard Hose Company’s 49th Annual Chicken Barbecue will be held this Saturday, Aug. 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Third Street Firehouse. Tickets are $30 in advance, online here, or $35 at the firehouse on the day of the event.
• What’s going on this weekend? Quite a bit. Hallockville Museum Farm is welcoming five bands for an all-day Hootenanny on Saturday, after which you can head over to Kenney’s Beach in Southold for the Kenney’s/McCabe’s Beach Civic Association’s first ever Sunset Market, and catch the Second Annual Blues Night at the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport. Also on Saturday will be the long-awaited Orient Harbor Independence Day Fireworks at 9:15 p.m., rescheduled twice now due to weather. On Sunday over on the South Fork, the Springs Historical Society hosts an opening reception for the group show “Small Natural Wonders” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Today’s high tides on the East End are as follows:
August 14
Plum Gut Harbor: 11:41 a.m., 11:59 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 10:42 a.m., 11:03 p.m.
Greenport: 12:06 a.m., 12:36 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 12:49 a.m., 1:17 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:29 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1:05 a.m., 1:33 p.m.
South Jamesport: 1:28 a.m., 1:57 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 10:56 a.m., 11:09 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 9:21 a.m., 9:41 p.m.
August 15
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:31 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:33 a.m., 11:52 p.m.
Greenport: 12:55 a.m., 1:23 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:38 a.m., 2:04 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:47 a.m., 1:15 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1:54 a.m., 2:24 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:16 a.m., 2:43 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:45 a.m., 11:57 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:08 a.m., 10:27 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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