Foodie Tour at 20, Energia Internacional, A Berry-Peach Spongecake Delight
Good Morning, and Happy Tumbleweed Tuesday!
• We’re expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 80 degrees and a northwest wind around 7 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 65. Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 81, and Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 84 and a 30 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m.
• For the past 20 years, hundreds of people have flocked to the North Fork each September to meet farmers and food producers and hear their stories of how they built a food business on the North Fork. The North Fork Foodie Tour, this year being held on Sunday, Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is a day full of farm and food purveyor tours, lectures and cooking demonstrations at 20 locations throughout the North Fork. Read More.
• The Rites of Spring Music Festival will host Energia Internacional, a weekend-long series of performances celebrating Latin American song and dance, from Sept. 11 through Sept. 13. It’s “three days of community gatherings where participants can share arts, music, fashion, traditional dishes, economy and social practices,” according to Rites of Spring founder Paolo Bartolani. “Come relaxed, come curious, connect with the people around you, and experience the energy of the music.” Find Out More.
• We have a perfect treat for summer’s end from Alison Boyd-Savage and Peconic Dish. This simple berry-peach spongecake with a dense moist batter is a great way to use late-season peaches that may not ripen quite as fully in September. Get the Recipe.
• The Foppingtons bring a performance of English Country Dance Music to the Mattituck-Laurel Library this afternoon at 4:30 p.m., the first in an inaugural series of fall concerts in the library’s courtyard. Find Out More.
• Some of our local governments are getting back to work today. The East Hampton Town Board will discuss protections for street trees and bamboo regulations at its 11 a.m. work session this morning at Town Hall. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel. The Southampton Town Board holds several public hearings at its 1 p.m. meeting today on the acquisition of enhanced development rights at a property at 141 Deerfield Road, on increasing the maximum loan amount under the town’s First-Time Homebuyer Down Payment Assistance Program and establishing a forgiveness program for volunteer first responders, on funding for the Hampton Bays Water District and engineering for a Hampton Bays sewer system and on tax exemptions for surviving spouses of first responders killed in the line of duty. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV’s YouTube channel. The Southold Town Board has moved its biweekly work session/meeting date to tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 9. Here are the tentative agendas for those meetings.
• The Beacon’s Week in Review was delivered piping hot to inboxes across the East End in the wee hours of Sunday morning. To get your own copy each week, sign up here.
The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:
September 8
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:06 a.m., 8:33 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:04 a.m., 7:35 p.m.
Greenport: 9:01 a.m., 9:22 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:37 a.m., 9:58 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:56 a.m., 9:17 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:55 a.m., 10:26 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:25 a.m., 10:46 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:16 a.m., 7:38 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:44 a.m., 6:08 p.m.
September 9
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:57 a.m., 9:22 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:56 a.m., 8:22 p.m.
Greenport: 9:52 a.m., 10:14 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:31 a.m., 10:52 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:47 a.m., 10:09 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:47 a.m., 11:13 p.m.
South Jamesport: 11:16 a.m., 11:37 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 8:11 a.m., 8:30 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 6:36 a.m., 6:58 p.m.
And that’s the way things look at first light here today.
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