🌱 Feeding Families This Season + Boy Hit By Car, Airlifted

Happy Friday, Five Towns! Here's everything worth knowing around Five Towns today.

A boy was airlifted to the hospital after being hit by a car on Wednesday. Nassau County added more funds to a local soup kitchen to feed families in need this holiday season.

First, today's weather:

Becoming windier; a.m. rain. High: 49 Low: 33.

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Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. Newsday has the details on $300,000 in federal funds that the Town of Hempstead has allocated to feed families in need this holiday season. Meals will be distributed through the Interfaith Nutrition Network's Mary Brennan Soup Kitchen. (Subscription: Newsday)
2. The Daily Voice has the story on a noose found at a Nassau County work site for the second time. An employee at the PSEG Long Island and National Grid site found a rope hanging from the company's facility on Mill Road in Hewlett that was in the shape of a noose. A similar incident happened there in September. (Daily Voice)
3. Jerry Barmash reports that a young boy was airlifted to a hospital after being hit by a car in North Merrick Wednesday, on Merrick Avenue near Camp Avenue Elementary School. (Patch)
4. Newsday explains that Long Beach city are holding a series of hearings to determine whether it will authorize selling legalized recreational marijuana for adults 21 and older. The Town of Hempstead, Oyster Bay and Nassau County already have announced their opposition to legalized sales. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Five Towns Patch Notebook

• Hewlett Elementary School students and families celebrated ethnic and cultural diversity the local community during International Night. (Facebook)
• Village officials and community dignitaries gathered next to the bleachers at Fireman’s Field in Valley Stream last week to dedicate the press box to late local announcer Jack Sharkey. (LI Herald)

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