🌱 School Bus Fire + Five Towns Development Watchdog Group

Good morning, Five Towns! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's what's happening around town today.

A major flooding improvement project has kicked off nearby. A school bus crashed into an Inwood building and caused a fire on Thursday. And a group is forming to oppose overdevelopment in the Five Towns area.

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First, today's weather:

A little afternoon rain. High: 60 Low: 56.

Here are the top stories in Five Towns today:

1. Jerry Barmash reports that a school bus in Inwood crashed into a building starting a fire at Burnside Avenue and Hoover Street. Details are still emerging. (Patch)
2. The Herald explains that the Downtown Island Park Revitalization Project across from the library in Island Park has begun. The flooding in the area has been an issue for years. The project will cost $1.3 million. (LI Herald)
3. Patch alerts residents that road work on Hempstead Turnpike has begun that will last three weeks. Construction is expected to close one lane in either direction from the Cross Island Parkway to Munson Avenue. (Patch)
4. A local Five Towns group that opposed the building of a health care facility at the former Number Six School in Woodmere years ago wants to monitor development in the area. The Community Coalition of the Five Towns wants to educate Five Towns residents about proposed projects. (LI Herald)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Hewlett Elementary School Costume Parade & Extravaganza, Hewlett Woodmere School District.

Five Towns Patch Notebook

• East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Saturday at 12:45 p.m. for a new athletic complex. (Patch)
• This is the last week to drop off donations for the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library's October food drive. (Facebook)

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• Halloween Mocktail Party (October 31)
• Save 15 Percent On Boo-tiful Flowers This Halloween! (October 31)
• Community Outreach Festival for Bethany House & Hewlett House (November 6)
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— Jackie

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