This Morning's Bulletin — 8.14.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting mostly cloudy skies today, with a high near 85 and a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, with patchy fog before 11 a.m. Winds will be calm, becoming west around 6 miles per hour in the afternoon. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8 p.m., with a low around 69. Friday and Saturday will be sunny, with highs in the low to mid 80s.

• “I want to be in Riverside, because I want to be the catalyst that gets it done,” said David Gallo of affordable housing developer Georgica Green Ventures at an Aug. 12 public hearing on whether Southampton Town should spend $2.4 million from its Community Housing Fund to help GGV purchase a blighted property to build 40 housing units with three ground-floor shops. “I want to be the first to get the foot in the door and set the tone for the future development." Read Our Full Coverage.

• Reader Jean Schweibish writes in this week pushing back on a few of our assertions in our August editorial, "Our Environment is Our Economy." Read her letter here, and send us a letter any time via email to [email protected], with the subject line LTE. We love a good public policy debate!

• The Matttiuck-Laurel Library hosts a New York Blood Center blood drive today from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made here.

• The Southampton Town Board will discuss overlay districts and floating zones in the town's Comprehensive Plan Update at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV's YouTube channel.

• The Riverhead Town Board will discuss commercial vehicle parking on Youngs Avenue in Calverton and e-bikes and electric scooters at its 10 a.m. work session this morning. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

• The Yvonne Rogers Quartet performs fresh new jazz at The Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton this evening at 6 p.m. Find Out More.

• The North Fork Arts Center in Greenport hosts a Mid-Summer Serenade with music for string quartet by Beethoven and Mozart this evening at 7 p.m. Here’s More Info.

• Donald Harrison’s Quantum Leap festival is bringing some of the most talented and versatile musicians from New Orleans to Borghese Vineyard in Cutchogue today 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 14
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:52 a.m., 2:27 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1 a.m., 1:35 p.m.
Greenport: 2:29 a.m., 3:04 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:29 a.m., 3:53 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:24 a.m., 2:59 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:51 a.m., 4:26 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:58 a.m., 4:33 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 1:02 a.m., 1:35 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 11:44 a.m.

August 15
Plum Gut Harbor: 2:46 a.m., 3:24 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:54 a.m., 2:32 p.m.
Greenport: 3:23 a.m., 4:01 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 4:24 a.m., 4:47 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 3:18 a.m., 3:56 p.m.
New Suffolk: 4:45 a.m., 5:23 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:52 a.m., 5:30 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 1:58 a.m., 2:29 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 12:07 a.m., 12:38 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,