This Morning's Bulletin — 8.18.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting mostly cloudy skies this morning, gradually becoming sunny, with a high temperature near 75 degrees and a northeast wind 11 to 15 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 60. Tuesday will be sunny, with a high near 76, and Wednesday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 78.

• After a July 16 brush fire in state parkland in Napeague burned the area of a football field and highlighted the danger to surrounding homes and volunteer firefighters, New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday announced $2.2 million in funding to remove or burn dead pine trees killed by the southern pine beetle. Read More.

• The Immaculate Conception R.C. Church at 580 Main Street in Westhampton Beach holds a New York Blood Center blood drive today from 1 to 7 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments can also be made online here.

• Aqua Cherry brings reggae to the Greenport's Mitchell Park for this evening's Dances in the Park at 7:30 p.m. Find Out More.

• Tomorrow at 8 a.m., North Fork Audubon's Tuesdays with Tom bird walking excursion will head to Cedar Beach in Southold to seek out shorebirds. Here's More Info.

• The Cutchogue Civic Association holds its annual Summer Get-Together at McCall Wines tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Members receive a free glass of wine. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up at the get-together. Find Out More.

• On Saturday, Aug. 23, a consortium of community groups, including the Group for the East End, the Kenney’s/McCabe’s Beach Civic Association and the Town of Southold, is hosting volunteers from 9 to 11 a.m. to clean up the Great Pond Preserve, kick-starting the removal of two acres of phragmite reeds, to be replaced by native plant species. Read More.

• The Beacon's Week in Review was delivered piping hot to inboxes throughout the East End in the wee hours of Sunday morning. To get your own copy each week, sign up at the link below.

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

August 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 6:04 a.m., 6:43 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 5:12 a.m., 5:51 p.m.
Greenport: 6:41 a.m., 7:20 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 7:35 a.m., 7:58 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 6:36 a.m., 7:15 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8:03 a.m., 8:42 p.m.
South Jamesport: 8:10 a.m., 8:49 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 5:04 a.m., 5:34 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 3:13 a.m., 3:43 p.m.

August 19
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:07 a.m., 7:42 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:15 a.m., 6:50 p.m.
Greenport: 7:44 a.m., 8:19 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:40 a.m., 9:02 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 7:39 a.m., 8:14 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:06 a.m., 9:41 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:13 a.m., 9:48 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:13 a.m., 6:41 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:22 a.m., 4:50 p.

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

See you tomorrow,