🌱 School Shooting Threats + Knife At LIRR + Nor'Easter Watches

Happy Tuesday, Five Towns! Let's get this day started. These are the most important things happening today in Five Towns.

Nassau County is under two weather watches today. Find out the details. A new way to visit the library is coming to the Five Towns. A man wielding a knife at a LIRR station disturbed yesterday's commute. And a local school district received threats to two schools.

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First, today's weather:

Pouring rain. High: 64 Low: 55.

Here are the top stories today in Five Towns:

1. Patch explains that smart lockers are coming to the Peninsula Public Library. The smart lockers, which cost $15,000-$17,000, allow customers more flexibility since they don't have to be inside the library to pickup and return books. (Patch)
2. Jerry Barmash writes that officers were hurt when they attempted to arrest a Roosevelt man on Friday. Gregory Booker, 57, refused to comply with multiple verbal commands at the corner of Woods Avenue and Gilbert Place. (Patch)
3. WIPX 11 repots that a man was menacing commuters with a knife Monday morning at the Hicksville LIRR station. It happened before 6 a.m. (WPIX 11 New York)
4. Patch has the weather warnings for today's Nor'Easter. A flash flood watch is in effect from Monday night at 8 p.m. until Tuesday at 5 p.m. in Nassau and a wind advisory will last from 2 p.m. Tuesday until 6 a.m. Wednesday. (Patch)
5. News 12 Long Island explains that the Valley Stream School District received shooting threats Monday morning against North High School and Memorial Junior High. Both schools opened today on lockdown mode. (News 12)

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Today in Five Towns:

• Underclassman Make-Ups/Retakes, Back Pool Lobby, Hewlett High, 7:30 a.m.
• PSAT for Religious Observers, Hewlett High School, 8 a.m.

Five Towns Patch Notebook

• Mo Cassara, a CBS Sports analyst and former Hofstra men's basketball coach, and his wife Elisa DiStefano, the entertainment director for News 12 Long Island, announced that their renamed establishment, The Point, will reopen in April in Point Lookout. (Patch)

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