Maritime Festival Rescheduled, Repairing Pine Beetles’ Damage, Talking Housing and Trash
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies today, with a high temperature near 67 degrees and a northeast wind 14 to 16 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 29 mph. There’s a high risk of rip currents on ocean beaches through this evening. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 56. Wednesday will be partly sunny and breezy, with a high near 67, and Thursday will be mostly sunny and breezy, with the high also near 67.
• Due to this weekend’s impending nor’easter, the Greenport Maritime Festival will move to October 16 to 18, the organizers announced on Sept. 21. It had originally been scheduled for Sept. 25-27. The East End Seaport Museum has not yet made the call on whether to cancel the Bug Light Regatta on Saturday morning, and a Reggae & Rum afterparty at the museum Saturday evening is still on. Find Out More.
• The scars left by the southern pine beetle in the Quogue Wildlife Refuge may soon begin to heal, thanks to a new forest restoration grant from New York State, focusing on the removal of hazardous, beetle-killed trees, debris clearing, and the replanting of native pitch pine trees. Find Out More.
• The New York Blood Center holds blood drives today at the Montauk Fire Department from Noon to 6 p.m. and at the Riverhead Fire Department from 1 to 7 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can be made here.
• The Southold Town Board is slated to discuss the percentage of properties that can be used as short-term rentals in its proposed short-term rental code, guidelines for public speaking at town board meetings, a traffic study for Greenport, the state of solid waste on Long Island, space allocation for the ZBA at the town hall annex, efforts to improve cell service and the town’s proposed down payment assistance program at its 9 a.m. work session this morning. The board is slated to hold a public hearing on Community Development Block Grant funding requests at its 6 p.m. regular meeting this evening. Agendas and live video are slated to be posted here, here’s the Zoom login for the work session, and for the regular meeting.
• The Shelter Island Town Board is slated to discuss updates to irrigation and community housing codes and an outdoor assembly permit for Sylvester Manor’s annual farm concert at its 9 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on the town’s YouTube channel.
• The Southampton Town Board has cancelled its regular 6 p.m. meeting today, but will hold a special meeting on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 10 a.m. “for the purpose of considering any public hearings and resolutions that would have been on the agenda” for the cancelled meeting. Here’s the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, which can also be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
September 22
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:45 a.m., 7:59 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:45 a.m., 7:05 p.m.
Greenport: 8:32 a.m., 8:38 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:55 a.m., 9:10 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:26 a.m., 8:31 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:36 a.m., 9:56 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:38 a.m., 9:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:24 a.m., 6:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:01 a.m., 5:20 p.m.
September 23
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:25 a.m., 8:38 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:28 a.m., 7:45 p.m.
Greenport: 9:07 a.m., 9:20 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:40 a.m., 9:56 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:59 a.m., 9:12 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:19 a.m., 10:36 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:23 a.m., 10:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:15 a.m., 7:30 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:47 a.m., 6:05 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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