This Morning's Bulletin — 7.30.35

Students Urge Water Conservation, Deadline for Riverhead Town Square Comments, North Fork blood drives, "A Soldier's Tale" on Shelter Island

Golf Heat, Cutchogue

Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 92 degrees, but heat index values as high as 100, with a calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 miles per hour in the afternoon. A Heat Advisory is in effect through 8 p.m. tonight. There's a 30 percent chance of overnight showers, with mostly cloudy skies and a low around 73. There will be a little bit of relief from the heat on Thursday, which will be partly sunny, with a high near 82 and a 50 percent chance of showers. Showers are expected to continue overnight and into Friday, when the high will be near 74.

• Two rising seniors at Mattituck High School are proving this summer that their voices are not just a drop in the bucket in the conversation about the future of our water supply here. Ryan Harned and Zoe King have been working, on their own time, this past school year on a project to help get the word out about what people can do, on their own properties, to conserve water. Read More.

• After the community raised numerous questions about Riverhead Town's Master Developer agreement with J. Petrocelli Contracting to build the Riverhead Town Square and an adjacent hotel, written comments are due this Friday, Aug. 1 at 3 p.m. via email to [email protected]. The Town Board could vote on the matter as soon as its Aug. 5 meeting.

Ubergeek Brewing Company at 400 Hallett Ave. in Riverhead 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. The Southold PBA & Greenport Fire Department also host a NYBC blood drive today at the Greenport Fire House, 236 Third Street, Greenport, from 1:45 to 7:45 p.m. Appointments for that blood drive can be made here.

Eastbound Freight brings bluegrass to Southold's Summer Showcase Concert Series at Silversmith's Corner this evening at 7:30 p.m. Find Out More.

• Rites of Spring Music Festival presents “Jayme Stone’s Folklife” this Friday at 7 p.m. at the Cutchogue Village Green. Folklife 'treats old field recordings not as time capsules, but as heirloom seeds passed down from a bygone generation.'  Find Out More.

• The Shelter Island Friends of Music are billing their production this Sunday of Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" as "the East End's most underground, far-out musical event" of the summer. Soo... You should be there! (also it's free) Find Out More.

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

July 30
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:17 a.m., 2:48 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:25 a.m., 1:56 p.m.
Greenport: 2:54 a.m., 3:25 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:49 a.m., 4:13 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:49 a.m., 3:20 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:16 a.m., 4:47 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:23 a.m., 4:54 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 1:24 a.m., 2:04 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:13 p.m.

July 31
Plum Gut Harbor: 3:07 a.m., 3:40 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 2:15 a.m., 2:48 p.m.
Greenport: 3:44 a.m., 4:17 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:37 a.m., 4:59 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:39 a.m., 4:12 p.m.
New Suffolk: 5:06 a.m., 5:39 p.m.
South Jamesport: 5:13 a.m., 5:46 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 2:09 a.m., 2:48 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:18 a.m.,12:57 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,

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