This Morning's Bulletin — 10.1.25

Southold Seeks Waste Testing in Calverton, Protecting Brain Health on the North Fork, Celebrating Seahorses and Chowder

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Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 69 degrees and a north wind 14 to 18 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 28 mph. It will be clear overnight, with a low around 49. We're expecting sunny skies on Thursday, with a high near 65, and partly cloudy skies clearing to sunny on Friday, with a high near 71.

• As the owners of a former nursery in Calverton began to remove 3,000 yards of waste material stored there in a settlement recently reached with Riverhead Town, Southold Town has asked the Suffolk County Department of Health Services to test the material and initiated legal maneuvers to prohibit the waste being brought to an industrial site in Cutchogue. Read More.

• Residents at the Harbor South memory care unit at Peconic Landing, where 16 people are living with the early stages of dementia, have had a new reason to find purpose in their days since the beginning of this year, after the implementation of a new voluntary program for residents called SAIDO Learning — half hour sessions, five days a week, of math, reading and pattern recognition exercises. Read More.

• Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive today from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.

• The Silver Sands Motel in Greenport is hosting a fundraiser this Friday, Oct. 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at its boathouse for Cornell Cooperative Extension's Seahorse Hotel program, building innovative new habitats for seahorses in the Peconic Estuary. Here's More Info.

• Also in Greenport maritime lore this weekend, the East End Seaport Museum holds its annual Chowderfest at Port restaurant on Third Street, beginning at noon. Here Are the Details.

The high tides on the East End for the next two days are as follows:

October 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 6:01 a.m., 6:17 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 5:09 a.m., 5:25 p.m.
Greenport: 6:38 a.m., 6:54 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 7:01 a.m., 7:19 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 6:33 a.m., 6:49 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8 a.m., 8:16 p.m.
South Jamesport: 8:07 a.m., 8:23 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 4:23 a.m., 4:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 2:32 a.m., 2:51 p.m.

October 2
Plum Gut Harbor: 6:52 a.m., 7:05 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6 a.m., 6:13 p.m.
Greenport: 7:29 a.m., 7:42 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 7:57 a.m., 8:15 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 7:24 a.m., 7:37 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8:51 a.m., 9:04 p.m.
South Jamesport: 8:58 a.m., 9:11 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 5:23 a.m., 5:43 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 3:32 a.m., 3:52 p.m.

And that’s the way things look at dawn’s light here today…

See you tomorrow,

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