🌱 Center Moriches-Eastport Daily: Environment Quality Bd Hearing

Rise and shine, Center Moriches-Eastport! It's Thursday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Increasingly windy. High: 54, low: 49.

Here are the top stories today in Center Moriches-Eastport:

1. An Environmental Quality Board of Review hearing is scheduled for Feb. 17. The hearings will be held via Zoom. Only Department representatives, applicants, applicant representatives, and formally invited parties will be able to speak during the hearing. All other interested parties may listen/view the hearings. See more. (Press Release Desk)
   
2. Yusef Staine, a West Babylon man, was shot dead by a man who "appeared to be traveling" with him while he was onboard a westbound LIRR train that was parked at the Ronkonkoma station at about 1:45 a.m., Suffolk police said. No one has been apprehended in connection with the shooting, MTA officials said. (WABC-TV)
3. Rolando Padillacanales, 45, a Ronkonkoma man, was killed Tuesday after getting pinned between two box trucks as he helped back one of the vehicles into a Central Islip parking lot, Suffolk police said. Padillacanales was helping a motorist back up a 2007 Hino box truck in a parking lot at South Research Place when the vehicle hit him, according to police, pinning him against a parked 2006 Freightliner box truck. Padillacanales was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore where he died of his injuries, police said. (smithtownmatters.com)

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Today in Center Moriches-Eastport:

• Storycraft Thursdays TAKE HOME — Ages 2-Not yet in Kindergarten — CMZ324 (Center Moriches). (11 a.m.)
• Storycraft Thursdays IN PERSON — Ages 2-Not yet in Kindergarten — CMJ324 (Center Moriches). (11 a.m.)

From my notebook:

• Suffolk County Sheriff's Office: "The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office Sheriff's Deputies recently made the attached warrant arrests. #SCSO, #SuffolkSheriff." (Facebook) (Website)
• Center Moriches Free Public Library: "The Healthy Libraries Program (HeLP) consists of students who are currently training in the fields of social work, public health, library science, and nursing, who are available at the library to provide blood pressure screenings." (Facebook) (Website)
• Center Moriches Free Public Library: "Hey #audiobook fans! Looking for a listen-alike? Browse hoopla's audiobook library today! Simply download the app and login with your library card. https://bit.ly/3uPo6DF #cmorlibrary, #hoopladigital." (Facebook)

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