🌱 Person Hit By Train + Snowstorm Shoveling Deaths + Shooting

Good morning, people of Five Towns! It's me again, your host of the Five Towns Daily.

First, today's weather:

Sun and areas of low clouds. High: 37 Low: 32.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. Nassau County police are investigating a murder in Hempstead Sunday night. Shots were fired near the intersection of Peninsula Boulevard and Sewell Street at 10:55 p.m. and a 49-year-old man was found lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. (Patch)
2. Two of the three Long Islanders who died shoveling snow after the weekend's snowstorm were from Syosset. (WABC-TV)
3. A person was struck and killed by an LIRR train Sunday around 5:30 p.m. in Baldwin near Grand Avenue and Sunrise Highway. The person was not identified, and MTA police are investigating the incident. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Hewlett Elementary School, Chinese New Year Parade Grades 2, 3, 4.

From my notebook:

• Gov. Kathy Hochul extended the indoor public mask mandate for two more weeks on Friday. The numbers of omicron are improving, she said, but not yet enough to lift the mandate. (Subscription: Newsday)
• A Long Island tourism promoter wants to attract visitors from the Phoenix, Arizona, area.
  There will be targeted social media, and TV and digital ads for Discover Long Island's first-ever West Coast marketing campaign. (Patch)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Hewlett/Woodmere: "Free: tall, black office chair, used, great for a home office." (Nextdoor)

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