🌱 Gunshots In Long Beach + Seaford Man Steals From County

Happy Sunday, neighbors! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening locally today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and windy. High: 57 Low: 43.

Here are the top three stories in Five Towns today:

1. A man was seriously injured after he was shot in Long Beach around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Gunshots were heard outside a residence on East Broadway. (News 12)
2. A Seaford man was arrested for burglary after he illegally entered the Nassau County Public Works building at Cedar Creek Park: 39-year-old Dimitrios Noutsis stole a lawn mower battery, a sander and gasoline before he fled the scene, police say. (News 12)
3. A physician from Glen Cove was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Friday for fraud. He obtained $3.8 million in pandemic-relief loans and grants, which he used to buy luxury watches and a yacht. Dr. Konstantinos "Dino" Zarkadas, 49, also was ordered to pay restitution of $3.5 million. (Subscription: Newsday)

Today in Five Towns:

• Wantagh's 2022 St. Patrick's Day Parade at Mulcahy's Pub & Concert Hall, 3232 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh, noon
  

From my notebook:

• Two Hewlett High School Robotics Teams, Team 3540 Roboboogie and Team 7120 Bionica, competed at the FIRST Tech Challenge Long Island Championships. (Facebook)
• Hewlett-Woodmere students at FECC, WMS and HHS collected items ranging from first aid kids and sleeping bags to diapers to send to Ukraine. (Facebook)
• Dawn Smallwood, of West Hempstead, became the first-ever female chief of police at Stony Brook University. (Subscription: Newsday)

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