This Morning's Bulletin — 9.17.25

Good Morning!

• We’re expecting mostly cloudy skies today, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms increasing throughout the day, with a high temperature around 73 degrees. Winds will be out of the east at 9 to 13 miles per hour. It will be mostly cloudy overnight, with a low around 60. Skies are expected to clear gradually on Thursday, with a 30 percent chance of showers before 2 p.m. Friday will be sunny, with a high near 80.

• There’s a hidden treasure at the far tip of Indian Island County Park in Riverhead known now primarily to fishermen casting their lines at the mouth of Meetinghouse Creek. This spot, where Native American remains and artifacts have been found, is on a bluff past a silent cove and a wooded picnic area. It had been experiencing “ongoing, catastrophic and irreversible bluff loss,” but an ambitious project to shore up the point using an innovative method known as a “living shoreline” is now the winner of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association’s Best Restored Shoreline Award. Read More.

• Governments on the North Fork are hashing out the best way to address the preponderance of short-term rentals in the upcoming weeks. The public will have a chance this Thursday, Sept. 18, to weigh in on the Village of Greenport’s latest attempt to regulate the rental of private homes for short stays and the Southold Town Board is expected to hold a Sept. 30 code committee meeting to discuss changes to its code. Read More.

• New York Blood Center blood drives are being held today from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Peconic Building of Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus at 121 Speonk-Riverhead Road in Riverhead and at the Riverhead Walmart at 1890 Old Country Road from 1 to 7 p.m.

• Gardeners in East Hampton and Southold have an opportunity this month to get coaching and information about composting, along with discounted compost bins and rain barrels, through a program organized by Backyard Compost Crews from ReWild Long Island’s North and South Fork chapters in coordination with the two towns. Find Out More.

• The East End Seaport Museum’s annual Maritime Festival in downtown Greenport is around the corner, and this year’s visiting vessels and minstrels in Mitchell Park are again keeping the focus this coming weekend on what’s unique about this homegrown community event: It truly celebrates Greenport’s history as a working fishing village. Get the Details.

• Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Back to the Bays Initiative will provide a presentation on Blue Carbon, the carbon dioxide captured and stored by oceans and coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass meadows and salt marshes, tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge. Find Out More.

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

September 17
Plum Gut Harbor: 7 a.m., 7:34 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 6:08 a.m., 6:42 p.m.
Greenport: 7:37 a.m., 8:11 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 8:29 a.m., 8:53 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 7:32 a.m., 8:06 p.m.
New Suffolk: 8:59 a.m., 9:33 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:06 a.m., 9:40 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 6:04 a.m., 6:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 4:13 a.m., 4:36 p.m.

September 18
Plum Gut Harbor: 7:52 a.m., 8:21 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 7 a.m., 7:29 p.m.
Greenport: 8:29 a.m., 8:58 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 9:26 a.m., 9:48 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 8:24 a.m., 8:53 p.m.
New Suffolk: 9:51 a.m., 10:20 p.m.
South Jamesport: 9:58 a.m., 10:27 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 7:05 a.m., 7:25 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 5:14 a.m., 5:34 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,