Pipeline Comments Due Friday, Schaffer Returns as County Dem Chair, State Senate Debate
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting partly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 67 degrees and a northeast wind 21 to 23 miles per hour. There’s a high risk of rip currents on ocean beaches through today, along with brief minor coastal flooding this evening. It will be partly cloudy and breezy overnight, with a low around 53. Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 67, and Friday will be mostly cloudy and breezy, with a 40 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m.
• The U.S. Navy will host the 64th meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for the Former Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant at Calverton this evening at 6 p.m. at the Residence Inn Long Island East End at 2012 Old Country Road in Riverhead. The Pentagon recently announced it is delaying a study of PFAS contamination at the site from 2028 to 2039. This meeting is open to the public. Here are more details (you may get an Access Denied message from this ‘Department of War’ website on certain web browsers).
• This Friday, Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for public comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Suffolk County Water Authority’s North Fork Pipeline. Here’s where to comment, and here’s our ongoing coverage.
• Incumbent Suffolk County Democratic Party Chairman Rich Schaffer was returned to his seat running the county party Tuesday evening with 57.2 percent of the vote, after facing a grassroots challenge from Southold Town Democratic Party Chair Kathryn Casey Quigley. Read Our Coverage.
• The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and North Fork is holding a virtual debate between the two candidates for New York State’s 1st Senatorial District on Monday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. State Senator Anthony Palumbo, a Republican, is facing Democratic challenger Christopher Murray, an attorney and environmental and civil rights advocate. Find Out More.
• The New York Blood Center holds a blood drive today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Peconic Building at Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus. Find Out More.
• This year’s Sag Harbor American Music Festival, a four-day free outdoor music festival originally scheduled for this coming weekend, has been postponed due to the impending nor’easter to the weekend of Oct. 1 through Oct. 4, with the exception of Friday night’s headline performance by Raul Midón, which will go on as planned on Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. at Bay Street Theatre. Find Out More.
• Editor’s Note: This event has since been rescheduled to Oct. 9 due to this weekend’s storm. The Unitarian Universalists of Southold will hold a Goods & Services Auction to help support the congregation’s programs, outreach and community activities, including the North Fork Action Center’s social justice programs, this Friday, Sept. 25. Here’s More Info.
• Beacon columnist Dave Davis reflects on a summer spent upstate and his return to his longtime spiritual home of Montauk thie fall in this month’s Dave’s Desk@Ditch.
• Looking ahead to next week, Southold Town will host a Community Housing Update by town planning staff on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. in the Town Hall meeting room. Find Out More.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
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.
September 24
Plum Gut Harbor: 9:02 a.m., 9:15 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 8:08 a.m., 8:21 p.m.
Greenport: 9:40 a.m., 10 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:23 a.m., 10:40 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:31 a.m., 9:51 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:59 a.m., 11:12 p.m.
South Jamesport: 11:04 a.m., 11:25 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:59 a.m., 8:13 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 6:28 a.m., 6:47 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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