This Morning's Bulletin — 7.18.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting mostly sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 84 degrees and a northwest wind 8 to 11 miles per hour. It will be mostly clear overnight, with a low around 68. Saturday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 84 and a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 p.m., and we're expecting partly sunny skies on Sunday, with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2 p.m.

• Today is the deadline to submit your comments on Southold Town's Zoning Update. Here's our coverage on this community-driven process. “Ideally, we would like 1,000 people to proofread this document,” says town Zoning Update Advisory Committee member Bruce Nelligan. The committee holds a meeting, which is open to the public, today at noon in the Southold Town Hall Annex conference room.

• Southold-based artist Ellen Weiner's work has always been a thread through the liminal spaces between knowledge, myth, wonder and the natural world, and her new exhibition, "Green Shade," opening Sunday, July 20 at Dan Welden's gallery in Sag Harbor, continues stitching together these worlds. Read our conversation with the artist and poet L.B. Thompson, who is organizing a poetry reading accompanying the show.

• Northeast Stage director A.D. Newcomer takes participants on an inside look at what it takes to bring one of Shakespeare's best-known and most challenging plays, "Othello," to life in a Zoom presentation organized by local libraries this evening at 6:30 p.m. The play will travel to Westhampton Beach and Riverhead this coming week before concluding its run with three days in Greenport's Mitchell Park July 25-27. Find Out More.

• The Shelter Island Youth Center at 1 Bateman Road on Shelter Island 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.

• Riverhead’s summer celebration, "Alive on 25," returns to downtown this evening with live music, street entertainment, and community spirit beginning at 4 p.m. There will be fireworks over the river at 9 p.m. Here's the full lineup of tonight's music and entertainment.

• Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is inviting its neighbors to move with purpose, connect with community, and support through wellness during the third annual Summer of Wellness, taking place at Southampton Youth Services tomorrow, Saturday, July 19 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Find Out More.

• Guild Hall's Clothesline Art Sale returns for its 79th year on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Since its inception in 1946, the event has provided accessible artwork to the community, while supporting the local artists who thrive here. Find Out More.

• Butterflies get lots of attention, but their nocturnal cousins, moths, are often overlooked despite being considerably more abundant and diverse. Biologist and nature photographer Jill Dodds explores a variety of moths in "Magnificent Months," this weekend's Sundays at Two lecture at the Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Center. Find Out More.

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

July 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 4:05 a.m., 4:48 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 3:13 a.m., 3:56 p.m.
Greenport: 4:42 a.m., 5:25 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 5:41 a.m., 6:07 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 4:37 a.m., 5:20 p.m.
New Suffolk: 6:04 a.m., 6:47 p.m.
South Jamesport: 6:11 a.m., 6:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 3:10 a.m., 3:46 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 1:19 a.m., 1:55 p.m.

July 19
Plum Gut Harbor: 5:10 a.m., 5:50 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 4:18 a.m., 4:58 p.m.
Greenport: 5:47 a.m., 6:27 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 6:44 a.m., 7:07 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 5:42 a.m., 6:22 p.m.
New Suffolk: 7:09 a.m., 7:49 p.m.
South Jamesport: 7:16 a.m., 7:56 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 4:09 a.m., 4:44 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 2:18 a.m., 2:53 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,