🌱 Veterans Day Guide + Montauk Highway Closure + DWI Arrest

Up and at 'em, Center Moriches-Eastport! Diane Witek here providing you with what you need to know to get your day started off right! Here's everything happening today in town.

First, today's weather:

Some sun, then clouds. High: 58, low: 51.

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

1. A Veterans Day Guide To Ceremonies And Events Happening On Long Island: Veterans Day is about honoring those in our lives who have served their country. To recognize their sacrifices, communities and towns across Long Island will host ceremonies, parades and days of recognition today on Veterans Day and throughout the week. (GreaterBayShore)
2. Montauk Highway Closed Due To Truck Hitting Overpass: A truck driver struck an overpass in Center Moriches on Wednesday morning, and so a portion of Montauk Highway was closed in both directions, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. No one appeared to be hurt in the collision. (Newsday)
3. Suffolk County Sheriff's Office Nabs Intoxicated Wrong Way Driver While Transporting A Separate Individual Arrested For Driving While Intoxicated: The Sheriff’s Deputies passed a driver heading westbound in the eastbound lanes of Sunrise Highway, nearly crashing into the Sheriff’s Office vehicle. The deputies immediately radioed for assistance and another deputy unit managed to stop the driver on Sunrise Highway near exit 58. The driver, Dawn Clark, 56, of Mastic Beach, was arrested for driving while intoxicated, consented to a breath test, and registered a blood alcohol content of .19 percent. The legal limit in New York State is .08 percent. Clark was also charged with reckless endangerment in the second degree. (LongIsland.com)

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Center Moriches-Eastport Patch Notebook

• Center Moriches Free Public Library: "The Southampton Animal Shelter Mobile clinic will be at our library on Dec. 16. #cmorlibrary." (Facebook)

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