This Morning's Bulletin — 8.26.25

Good Morning!

• We're expecting sunny skies today, with a high temperature near 80 degrees and a northwest wind 6 to 9 miles per hour. There will be increasing clouds overnight, with a low around 53. Wednesday will be sunny, with a high near 78, and Thursday will be mostly sunny, also with a high near 78.

• About 45 volunteers descended on Great Pond, near Kenney’s Beach in Southold on Aug. 23 to remove invasive phragmite reeds, which have choked out native species at the edge of the pond for decades. Read More.

• Today is the start of Amistad Week in Montauk, a joint project of the Eastville Community Historical Society and the Southampton African American History Museum, honoring the enslaved people who, in 1839 overthrew their enslavers and brought the ship that had been carrying them north, eventually anchoring at Culloden Point in Montauk on Aug. 26, where they were again captured and brought to trial. Here's the schedule of events.

• The Southampton Town Board will hold public hearings on the creation of a park district in East Quogue and on two conservation easements on property in Remsenburg/Speonk and East Quogue at its 1 p.m. regular meeting this afternoon. The board is also slated to vote on the use of Community Housing Funds to buy the property for Georgica Green Venture's proposed 40-unit mixed-use apartment complex on Flanders Road in Riverside and to build 12 units of affordable housing at The Preserve at South Country in Quiogue. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live on Sea-TV's YouTube channel.

• This evening at 5 p.m., The Peconic Community School in Cutchogue host Circus Splendiferous, a one-hour show, including aerials, followed by a one-hour interactive kids workshop. Find Out More.

• Today is the last day to subscribe to our monthly print edition in time to receive our September issue via U.S. Mail. It's a great overview of the top issues facing the region, and subscriptions to our print edition support much of the work we do. Sign up online here.

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

August 26
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:13 a.m., 12:36 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 11:44 a.m.
Greenport: 12:50 a.m., 1:13 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 1:49 a.m., 2:08 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 12:45 a.m., 1:08 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:12 a.m., 2:35 p.m.
South Jamesport: 2:19 a.m., 2:42 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 11:54 a.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:03 a.m., 10:11 p.m.

August 27
Plum Gut Harbor: 12:57 a.m., 1:21 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:05 a.m., 12:29 p.m.
Greenport: 1:34 a.m., 1:58 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:30 a.m., 2:47 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:29 a.m., 1:53 p.m.
New Suffolk: 2:56 a.m., 3:20 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:03 a.m., 3:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:02 a.m., 12:36 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:45 a.m., 10:53 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,