This Morning's Bulletin — 10.2.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 65 degrees and a northeast wind 8 to 11 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 43. Friday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 70, and Saturday will be sunny, with a high near 76.

• The Suffolk County Water has scheduled three public hearings for next week on whether its proposed North Fork Pipeline is exempt from local zoning and land use review, despite Riverhead Town's insistence that the town is the correct agency to perform this analysis. Read More.

• Southold Town is going it alone on the final stages of its Zoning Update, after signing a settlement agreement with ZoneCo., the company the town had hired to do a major overhaul of the town’s zoning code, in early September. Read More.

• We are always a little apprehensive here when we turn the calendar into October in a local election year. Like clockwork, some aspect of local politics turns quite ugly, quite fast.  This fall, the mudslinging came straight from the head of town government in Riverhead, Riverhead Town Supervisor Tim Hubbard, who issued a press release in late September blasting the heads of two civic associations who are also involved in Democratic politics. Read this month's editorial: Silly Season Arrives, Right on Cue

• The Riverhead Town Board will discuss the 2025 Halloween Fest in downtown Riverhead at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

• The Southampton Town Board holds a special meeting this morning at 10 a.m. today to unveil the town's tentative 2026 budget. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on SeaTV's YouTube Channel.

• The East Hampton Town Board holds a public hearing on its Section 8 Administrative Plan at its 6 p.m. regular meeting this evening. Here’s the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV’s YouTube channel.

• New York State Senator Anthony Palumbo hosts a New York Blood Center Blood Drive today from noon to 6 p.m. at the Riverhead Free Libary. Walk-ins are welcome, but you can also make an appointment here.

• The Perfect Earth Project‘s Edwina von Gal, Peconic Baykeeper Pete Topping, and Vicki Bustamante of Third House Nature Center and Warren’s Nursery hold a Landscape Therapy Workshop on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 10 a.m. at the Baykeeper's Headquarters in Hampton Bays. Find Out More.

• The North Fork Community Theatre hosts its annual Historic Graveyard Tours this weekend — Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at Cutchogue's Old Burying Ground.

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

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.

October 3
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:34 a.m., 7:48 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:42 a.m., 6:56 p.m.
Greenport: 8:11 a.m., 8:25 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:49 a.m., 9:08 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:06 a.m., 8:20 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:33 a.m., 9:47 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:40 a.m., 9:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:21 a.m., 6:40 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:30 a.m., 4:49 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,