This Morning's Bulletin — 12.1.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 42 degrees and a northwest wind 8 to 14 miles per hour, with gusts as high as 24. We're expecting increasing clouds overnight, with a low around 29 and a light and variable wind. We're expecting heavy rain on Tuesday, with a high near 48 and new precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 41.

• At a time of great uncertainty throughout the world, you can be certain you will make better sense of the vastness of global challenges and see the personal stories of people caught in the midst of global events after spending some time at the Hamptons Doc Fest. This year’s festival runs Dec. 4 through 11, with screenings primarily at Bay Street Theater and the Sag Harbor Cinema. Half of the stories this year are either about or told by women. Read Our Coverage: Strong Women Are The Backbone of This Year's Doc Fest.

• The nationwide blue wave that hit the East End election night was a forceful reminder that, in the strange new world of 21st Century politics, former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill’s tried and true advice that all elections are local does not apply right now. The corollary local election guidance — that East End voters vote for the person, not the party — was also put to the test on Election Night, but in many ways it did still hold true. Read More.

• While Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Shellabration shellfish pairing festival in downtown Greenport has been paused for this year, the Greenport business community has banded together for a weekend-long festivity Dec. 5 through 7 honoring all things shellfish. Dubbed “Raise Shell,” the project is being coordinated by Little Creek Oysters and Little Creek’s non-profit, the Hold Fast Fund. Get the details on Raising Shell in Greenport.

• Cyber-Mondayed out? Scroll around the Southold Historical Museum's Ten Squared art auction and benefit for a reminder of all that's beautiful about this place (and some personalized gift ideas).

• The Riverhead Free Library at 300 Court Street hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive today from Noon to 6 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.

• We'd like to share a moment of silence today for our friends, family and neighbors who lost their lives to the ongoing AIDS pandemic, which has killed more than 44 million people since the early 1980s and continues to kill upwards of 630,000 people per year around the world. On this World AIDS Day, we remember the people we love who had sat in the now-empty seats at our holiday dinner tables, and we give thanks for how fortunate we've become to live in a country where access to treatments for this disease is now readily available. We know how horrible it was and we won't go back.

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

December 1
Plum Gut Harbor: 6:06 a.m., 6:28 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 5:14 a.m., 5:36 p.m.
Greenport: 6:43 a.m., 7:05 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 7:26 a.m., 8 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 6:38 a.m., 7 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8:05 a.m., 8:27 p.m.
South Jamesport: 8:12 a.m., 8:34 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 5:03 a.m., 5:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 3:12 a.m., 3:36 p.m.

December 2
Plum Gut Harbor: 6:53 a.m., 7:17 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:01 a.m., 6:25 p.m.
Greenport: 7:30 a.m., 7:54 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:18 a.m., 8:55 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 7:25 a.m., 7:49 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8:52 a.m., 9:16 p.m.
South Jamesport: 8:59 a.m., 9:23 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6 a.m., 6:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:09 a.m., 4:36 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,