🌱 Five Town Hamlets Have Highest COVID Rates On LI + Hit-And-Run

Hello, neighbors! I'm here with a brand-new edition of the Five Towns Daily.

First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 38 Low: 34.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. As of Dec. 13, the eight Long Island communities with the highest cumulative rates of COVID-19—all cases since the beginning of the pandemic—are: Hewlett Harbor, Bay Park, Point Lookout, Great River, Woodmere, Lawrence, Atlantic Beach and Kings Point. (Subscription: Newsday)
2. A hit-and-run crash in Glen Cove left a woman seriously injured. At around 10:50 a.m. on Saturday a dark-colored SUV struck a 40-year-old victim crossing Pearsall Avenue just west of Walnut Road. Police are investigating. (Daily Voice)
3. Several fire departments responded to a building fire at Burnside Avenue and Garden Lane in Inwood early Saturday. The fire melted four trucks belonging at New York Boom Trucks company. (LI Herald)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Holiday Boutique, Hewlett Woodmere School District
• Ogden Elementary School, Shark Tank YouTube Premiere, Hewlett Woodmere School District, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• The Merrick-based Long Island Clean Air, Water and Soil advocacy group met at this month's Hempstead Town meeting, calling for the town to appoint three people to the South Nassau Water Authority board. The deadline for the appointments is Feb. 1, 2022. (LI Herald)
• Nassau County is sending teenagers charged with felonies to detention centers as far away as Erie County after plans to build local facilities to segregate the adolescents from adult inmates didn't materialize. (Subscription: Newsday)
• The Woodmere Fire District had a contested race for Fire Commissioner and Melanie Kail beat challenger Michael Beer 170-168 for the five-year term. (LI Herald)

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