This Morning's Bulletin — 8.5.25

Riverhead Rally Over Immigration Enforcement, Vote on Petrocelli Town Square Deal, Working Waterfront, National Night Out

At Louse Point

Good Morning!

• We're expecting widespread haze today, with partly sunny skies, a high temperature near 84 degrees and a calm wind becoming east 5 to 7 miles per hour in the morning. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 67. Wednesday will be partly sunny, with a high near 81, and Thursday will be mostly sunny, with a high near 80.

• Residents concerned about escalating local immigration enforcement actions are gathering outside the Suffolk County Center at 300 Center Drive this afternoon at 4 p.m. They're asking attendees to "wear white in solidarity with those abducted and disappeared by ICE."

A bill to allow conservation easements on working waterfront property goes before the Suffolk County Legislature for a public hearing at the Legislature’s 6 p.m. meeting this evening at the County Center in Riverhead. Find Out More.

• The Riverhead Town Board has scheduled a vote on declaring J. Petrocelli qualified and eligible to be the Master Developer for the Town Square project for its 2 p.m. meeting this afternoon. Residents concerned about the process are holding a rally prior to the meeting outside Town Hall at 1 p.m. Also on the 2 p.m. agenda is a public hearing on a zoning change that would allow the Riverhead First Baptist Church’s proposed affordable housing complex to provide units that are more affordable than originally proposed. Find Out More. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed live here.

• The Southold Town Board holds its annual Fishers Island meeting this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Here's the agenda, and the meeting can be viewed via Zoom here.

• The East Hampton Town Board discusses rights of way, the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center and a county request to lower speed limits on Long Lane at its 11 a.m. work session this morning at Town Hall. Here's the agenda and the meeting can be viewed live on LTV's YouTube channel.

• The Southold and Riverhead police departments are hosting "National Night Out" this evening, an evening of family-friendly activities to help residents get to better know the police in their town. Southold's National Night Out will be held at Tasker Park on Peconic Lane from 5 to 8 p.m. Riverhead's program will also be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Riverhead Town Square.

Souled Out performs the last concert of this year's season on the East Quogue Village Green this evening at 7 p.m. Find Out More.

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

August 5
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:53 a.m., 8:09 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:01 a.m., 7:17 p.m.
Greenport: 8:30 a.m., 8:46 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:11 a.m., 9:24 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:25 a.m., 8:41 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:52 a.m., 10:08 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:59 a.m., 10:15 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:35 a.m., 6:59 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:44 a.m., 5:08 p.m.

August 6
Plum Gut Harbor: 8:38 a.m., 8:51 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7:46 a.m., 7:59 p.m.
Greenport: 9:15 a.m., 9:28 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 10:01 a.m., 10:12 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 9:10 a.m., 9:23 p.m.
New Suffolk: 10:37 a.m., 10:50 p.m.
South Jamesport: 10:44 a.m., 10:57 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:31 a.m., 7:50 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:40 a.m., 5:59 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,

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