This Morning's Bulletin — 11.24.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 50 degrees and a northwest wind 6 to 14 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 24 mph. We're expecting increasing clouds overnight, with a low around 37. Tuesday will be cloudy, with a high near 57 and a 40 percent chance of rain after 1 p.m., and Wednesday will be cloudy, with a high near 59 and a 40 percent chance of rain.

• More than two weeks after a nail-biter election night that saw him up by six votes for much of the evening, Riverhead Democrats declared Friday afternoon that their Town Supervisor candidate, Jerry Halpin, will be the next Town Supervisor, after receiving 37 more votes than incumbent Town Supervisor Tim Hubbard. The Board of Elections will hold a manual recount at its Yaphank headquarters today, which it says “is required on the ground that the margin of victory is 0.5% or less.” The Board of Elections says that recount is expected to take about a day. Read More.

• At this week’s Behind the Headlines on 88.3 WLIW-FM, Beacon editor Beth Young joins a panel talking with former New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele about this year’s local elections and current issues with the Community Preservation Fund and train service on the North Fork. Tune In Anytime.

• We had a great time visiting CAST's Festival of Trees in Peconic over the weekend and seeing the detailed handiwork so many local businesses and community groups put into their tree and wreath designs. Here are our photos. There's still time to bid in the silent auction of trees, wreaths and items and experiences, which ends today at 6 p.m. Here's where to bid.

• The Long Island Buddhist Meditation Center at 5268 Sound Ave. in Riverhead is inviting anyone who has nowhere to go on Thanksgiving to share a vegetarian meal with the monks from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring a vegetarian dish to share.

• Here's the latest on Turkey Trots & Plunges in the coming week, from Mattituck to Shelter Island to Montauk and beyond.

• 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:

November 24
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:12 a.m., 12:17 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:25 a.m.
Greenport: 12:49 a.m., 12:54 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:29 a.m., 1:34 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:44 a.m., 12:49 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:11 a.m., 2:16 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:18 a.m., 2:23 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:01 a.m., 11:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 9:10 a.m., 9:51 p.m.

November 25
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:59 a.m., 1:02 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:07 a.m., 12:10 p.m.
Greenport: 1:36 a.m., 1:39 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:13 a.m., 2:20 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:31 a.m., 1:34 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:58 a.m., 3:01 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:05 a.m., 3:08 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:47 a.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 9:56 a.m., 10:41 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,