This Morning's Bulletin — 10.27.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting patchy frost before 9 a.m. today, with sunny skies, a high temperature near 55 degrees and a north wind 6 to 8 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 42. Tuesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 58, an a 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 2 p.m., and Wednesday will be mostly cloudy, with a high near 57 and a 40 percent chance of rain.

• By the time the League of Women Voters of The Hamptons, Shelter Island & The North Fork held their Southold Town Board Candidate Debate Thursday evening — the third and final Southold debate of this campaign season — most of the voters in the room had already heard the candidates’ pitches for why they should be elected to town office, and most already seemed to have made up their minds about how they were going to vote. But there were a few clarifying moments throughout the evening. Here’s our hot take.

• Early voting continues today at any of 28 locations throughout Suffolk County, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hours of early voting vary each day through Nov. 2. Here's the schedule and locations. On Election Day, Nov. 4, you can only vote at your regular polling place, which you can find online here. Read our campaign coverage for details about all the local races.

• Southold Democratic Town Clerk candidate Abigail Field writes in this week about what the Town Clerk job means to her. Read her letter.

• The Greenport Village Planning Board will hold a listening session with the business community this afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Third Street Firehouse. Topics of discussion include zoning and planning concerns in the village's downtown commercial corridor, and how the village can "diversify and attract a range of businesses, including retail and service providers and work toward a year-round vibrant commercial hub. Here's the agenda.

• The Surfrider Foundation's Eastern Long Island Chapter will hold an Ocean Friendly Happy Hour this evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Noah's restaurant at 136 Front Street in Greenport. Learn about Noah's, Surfrider and executive committee elections. There will be light bites and a cash bar. RSVP Online Here.

• At this weekend’s Behind the Headlines on 88.3 WLIW-FM, Beacon editor Beth Young joins a panel discussing the new trend of newspapers foregoing endorsements, the state’s support for oyster growers and East Hampton’s plan to take its senior center back to the drawing board. Tune In Anytime Here.

• The Beacon's Week in Review was delivered piping hot to inboxes throughout 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:

October 27
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:26 a.m., 2:36 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:34 a.m., 1:44 p.m.
Greenport: 3:03 a.m., 3:13 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:40 a.m., 3:47 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:58 a.m., 3:08 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:25 a.m., 4:35 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:32 a.m., 4:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 1:08 a.m., 1:15 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 11:24 a.m.

October 28
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:22 a.m., 3:33 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 2:30 a.m., 2:41 p.m.
Greenport: 3:59 a.m., 4:10 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:31 a.m., 4:42 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:54 a.m., 4:0

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

See you tomorrow,