This Morning's Bulletin — 9.26.25

Tomato Roasting Season, Everything the Light Touches, Seed Collecting and Fairs

Empty Nest, West Creek

Good Morning!

• There's a 20 percent chance of showers before 11 a.m. today, with mostly cloudy skies gradually becoming sunny, with a high temperature near 79 degrees and a west wind around 6 miles per hour. It will be partly cloudy overnight, with a low around 61. Saturday will be partly sunny, with a high near 76 degrees and a light and variable wind. There's a 40 percent chance of showrs before 2 p.m. Sunday, with mostly cloudy skies and a high near 74.

• Tomato season will soon be a fleeting memory. With the deadline looming, our Peconic Dish columnist, Alison Boyd-Savage, headed to Hodun Farms in Calverton where luscious U-pick tomatoes at bargain prices attract hordes of diehard canners, and brought them home to slow roast and turn it into sauce and soup. Find her most delicious recipes in this month's Peconic Dish.

• ReWild Long Island will hold Native Seed Collecting Walk and Talk this morning at 10 a.m. at Downs Farm Preserve in Cutchogue, with TaraLynn Reynolds of the Group for the East End. Register to take part in this event online here.

• The North Fork Art Collective in Greenport holds an opening reception for two shows this evening from 6 to 89 p.m. — “Everything the Light Touches,” a group exhibition celebrating the luminous landscapes of the East End and "Beyond the Barn," a solo exhibition by Carol C. Young. Find Out More.

• Hope and Resilience Long Island, which provides services for the victims of domestic violence and abuse, hosts a special fundraising performance of "The Vagina Monologues" tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 27 at 7 at the Jamesport Meeting House. Find Out More.

• Hallockville Museum Farm in Riverhead host its 44th Country Fair this weekend, celebrating the museum farm’s 50th anniversary with half-price admission on Sunday morning, a concert by the No Doubt World Famous Monday Night Band on Sunday at 1 p.m. (weather permitting), an artistic hand-blown glass pumpkin patch, historic cooking demonstrations, a horse-mounted drill team, a dog that paints, and a mix of family-friendly farm activities, historical tours and, folk arts and skills demonstrations, contemporary music, and food trucks. Find Out More.

• The Old Town Fine Art & Crafts Guild and the Southold Historical Society - two non-profit organizations- are sponsoring their two-day Antiques, Fine Art & Crafts Fair this Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. on the Southold Historical Museum. Music will be provided by Beacon creative director George Cork Maul.  Find Out More.

Renowned violinist Kinga Augustyn performs solo violin works, from Baroque to Modern, inside Custer Observatory’s historic observation dome on Saturday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. Here's More Info.

• Get all the details on what's going on this weekend, and in the weeks ahead, in our Events Calendar.

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

September 26
Plum Gut Harbor: 1:12 a.m., 1:29 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 12:20 a.m., 12:37 p.m.
Greenport: 1:49 a.m., 2:06 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 2:40 a.m., 2:48 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 1:44 a.m., 2:01 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:11 a.m., 3:28 p.m.
South Jamesport: 3:18 a.m., 3:35 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:07 a.m., 12:28 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 10:37 a.m., 11 p.m.

September 27
Plum Gut Harbor: 2 a.m., 2:18 p.m.
Montauk Harbor: 1:08 a.m, 1:26 p.m.
Greenport: 2:37 a.m., 2:55 p.m.
Mattituck Inlet: 3:23 a.m., 3:32 p.m.
Sag Harbor: 2:32 a.m., 2:50 p.m.
New Suffolk: 3:59 a.m., 4:17 p.m.
South Jamesport: 4:06 a.m., 4:24 p.m.
Shinnecock Bay Entrance: 12:51 a.m., 1:09 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet: 11:18 a.m., 11:48 p.m.

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

See you tomorrow,

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