🌱 Center Moriches-Eastport Daily: School Mask Mandate Upheld

Good morning, Center Moriches-Eastport! Diane Witek here, let me help you get started with everything you need to know going on around Center Moriches-Eastport today.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and colder. High: 27, low: 10.

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

1. When Judge Thomas Rademaker ruled Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mask mandate for schools unconstitutional, Hochul said she’d fight back. After an appeals court judge granted a stay, New York’s mask mandate was reinstated Tuesday afternoon. Justice Robert Miller scheduled another hearing on the mask issue for Friday morning. (PIX 11)
2. On Thursday, Adonay Abrego-Vasquez, 36, a Glen Cove man was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operations after he rear-ended a school bus in Southampton, police said. The bus had one passenger and neither the driver nor the passenger reported any injuries at the time of the crash, police said. A passenger in the van was extracted from the vehicle by the Southampton Fire Department and airlifted by Suffolk County Police aviation to Stony Brook University Hospital for injuries sustained in the crash, police said. (Patch)
3. Eight people were charged with conspiring to trafficking drugs into the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead through the U.S. postal service and visitations, Sheriff Errol Toulon said. An undetermined number of drugs including heroin, buprenorphine, cannabis, K2spice and other contraband were trafficked by sewing the drugs into the fabric of clothing and other property, as well as secreting them into the packaging material itself, Toulon said. Five civilian visitors and three inmates being charged with 25 felonies and 12 misdemeanors, including conspiracy, criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal sale of a controlled substance, promoting prison contraband, and criminal facilitation, Toulon said. (MSN.com)

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Today in Center Moriches-Eastport:

• In-Person Gentle Toning and Muscle Strengthening (Center Moriches). (8:30 a.m.)
• Baby & Me with Miss Cecilia! IN PERSON — Ages Birth-Not yet Walking — CMJ188 (Center Moriches). (11 a.m.)
• Gentle Chair Yoga with Susan (Center Moriches). (11 a.m.)

From my notebook:

• Suffolk County Sheriff: "The second NYPD officer shot Friday night in Harlem has passed away. The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office mourns with our brothers and sisters at the NYPD. #EOW, #NYPD, #scso." (Instagram) (Website)
• Suffolk County Sheriff: "Statement from Sheriff Errol D. Toulon, Jr.: 'I stand with Mayor Eric Adams in calling on lawmakers to revise New York’s Bail Reform legislation.'" (Instagram) (Website)
• Center Moriches Fire Department: "Center Moriches firefighters attend ice rescue training. This weekend seven members of the Center Moriches Fire Departments Water Rescue Team traveled to the Bayport Fire Department for a two-day ice rescue training class." (Facebook) (Website)
• Center Moriches Fire Department: "The Center Moriches Fire Department extends our deepest condolences to the Baltimore City Fire Department on the tragic loss of three of their firefighters today. Our thoughts and prayers are with their family, friends and colleagues." (Facebook) (Website)
• Center Moriches Free Public Library: "Call 631-878-0940 ext. 5 to make your appointment today. #cmorlibrary, #socialworkintern, #healthycommunities." (Facebook) (Website)

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— Diane Witek

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