This Morning's Bulletin — 8.12.25

Ditch Plains Dune Reconstruction, Riverside Renaissance, Nature is Not Optional, Mid-Summer Serenade

Summer plow, Saturday, Laurel

Good Morning!

• We're expecting patchy fog before 8 a.m. today, with otherwise sunny skies, with a high temperature near 86 degrees and a south wind 5 to 8 mile per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 69. Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 86, and Thursday will be partly sunny, with a high near 87 and a 30 percent chance of shower sbefore 2 p.m.

• The East Hampton Town Board has a busy Montauk Library work session agenda this morning at 11 a.m. They're slated to discuss junior lifeguards and beach guardians, and hear updates on The Retreat and on affordable multiple residences and the dune reconstruction at Ditch Plains. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV's YouTube channel.

• The Southampton Town Board will hold a public hearing on the use of Community Housing Funds for Georgica Green’s proposed 40-unit mixed-use affordable rental apartment complex on Flanders Road in Riverside at its regular meeting this afternoon at 1 p.m. Find Out More. The board will also hold a public hearing on deeming Methodist Point in Flanders as a town historical site. Here's the agenda for the meeting, which can be viewed online on Sea-TV's YouTube channel.

Nature is not optional. Still, all too often, we treat it as if it were. Beacon Climate Local Now columnist Len Green explores the many ways in which nature is our home in this month's column. Read It Here.

• The North Fork Arts Center hosts a Mid-Summer Serenade with music for string quartet by Beethoven and Mozart this Thursday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m. Here's More Info.

• Do you have your tickets to Donald Harrison's Quantum Leap festival yet? They're bringing some of the most talented and versatile musicians from New Orleans to Borghese Vineyard in Cutchogue Thursday through Sunday for a festival inspired by the mysteries of emergence and quantum entanglement. Find Out More.

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

August 12
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:17 a.m., 12:49 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:57 a.m.
Greenport: 12:54 a.m., 1:26 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:51 a.m., 2:17 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:49 a.m., 1:21 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:16 a.m., 2:48 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:23 a.m., 2:55 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:53 a.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:02 a.m., 10:18 p.m.

August 13
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:03 a.m., 1:36 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:11 a.m., 12:44 p.m.
Greenport: 1:40 a.m., 2:13 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:38 a.m., 3:03 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:35 a.m., 2:08 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:02 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:09 a.m., 3:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:09 a.m., 12:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:51 a.m., 11:11 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,

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