🌱 Searching For Boat After Explosion + Reaction To Proud Boys

Up and at 'em, Merrick! Let's get this Tuesday started off right. Here's what's happening today in Merrick.

Nassau officials spoke out against the weekend's Proud Boys rally. And police are searching for the operator of a boat seen leaving the scene of Sunday's mystery explosion in the Great South Bay.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 43 Low: 37.

Here are the top stories today in Merrick:

1. Maureen Mullarkey reports that police are looking for the operator of a boat who was seen leaving Fox Island in the Great South Bay off Lindenhurst after an unknown device detonated.
   The blast happened around 11 a.m. Sunday; and the boat has stripes. (Patch)
2. The Daily Voice has details on a single-vehicle crash that killed one person. At 1:15 p.m. on Sunday on the Southern State Parkway near exit 22 in Hempstead a vehicle left the roadway and struck a pole. (Daily Voice)
3. News 12 shares what Nassau elected officials had to say about Saturday's Proud Boys rally in Rockville Centre. State Sen. Todd Kaminsky condemned the march on Twitter. (News 12)
4. Patch has the story on a Garden City Park man who was arrested Friday morning after police say he assaulted a woman and two officers. The officers responded a home on First Street at 11 a.m. on Friday and found that Jonathan Brooks, 29, had assaulted a woman. (Patch)

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