Testing the Waters of the LI Sound, Community Housing Update, Storm Brush, Burying Ground Tours
Good Morning!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 69 degrees and a northwest wind 5 to 7 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 56. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 70, and Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 73.
• When the environmental organization Save the Sound released its biennial report card on the water quality in bays surrounding the Long Island Sound last week, it was thanks to the unified work of 31 environmental organizations. For the past 10 seasons, this consortium has worked to document the health of more than 50 bays and harbors surrounding Long Island Sound. We recently caught up with scientists from the Citizen Science Learning Center in Eastport, which has just joined the consortium, documenting the water quality in the North Fork’s Mattituck and Goldsmith inlets, to hear more about what the program means to them — and what it will tell us about the health of the waterways surrounding the Long Island Sound. Read Our Coverage.
• Southold Town will host a Community Housing Update by town planning staff this evening at 6 p.m. in the Town Hall meeting room. More details can be found on the town’s Zoning Update website. The town’s presentation will cover a framework for management of community housing establishing target parameters for buyers and renters and establishment of Community Housing Overlay Districts. The meeting will also be Zoomable.
• Southold Town also announced Monday that it is waiving residential disposal fees for storm-related brush at the town’s Cutchogue landfill through Saturday, Oct. 3. The free brush drop-off is for residential vehicles only, and invasive species such as fountain grasses and bamboo are not permitted. The town is also insisting that residents not pile brush in any town rights-of-way, as there will not be any additional brush pickup this fall.
• The Shelter Island Town Board will discuss proposed changes to the town’s irrigation code and wetlands legislation, and present the latest draft of the town’s Comprehensive Plan at its 9 a.m. work session this morning. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed on the town’s YouTube channel.
• The North Fork Community Theater and the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council will host Cutchogue Old Burial Ground Tours this Saturday, Oct. 3, every 10 minutes from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Find Out More.
• Today is the last day to sign up to receive our October print edition via U.S. Mail. Subscribe online here today, or pick up a copy at any of these newsstands starting Oct. 1.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
September 29
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:10 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:18 a.m., 11:42 p.m.
Greenport: 12:42 a.m., 12:53 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:36 a.m., 1:52 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:31 a.m., 12:45 p.m.
New Suffolk: 1:46 a.m., 2:09 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:16 a.m., 2:29 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:09 a.m., 11:39 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 9:57 a.m., 10:21 p.m.
September 30
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:43 a.m., 12:58 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:06 p.m.
Greenport: 1:28 a.m., 1:43 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:24 a.m., 2:40 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:16 a.m., 1:35 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:33 a.m., 2:57 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:04 a.m., 3:20 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:58 a.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:45 a.m., 11:11 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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