🌱 Amazon Fresh Store + Charles Dickens Festival

Get on up, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. Here's everything you need to know about what's happening today in Miller Place-Rocky Point.

The Big Duck in Flanders was lit for the holidays. A unique festival is coming to Port Jeff this weekend. And Amazon is opening its first Fresh market in Suffolk County.

First, today's weather:

Winds subsiding and cooler. High: 45 Low: 34.

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Here are the top stories today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

1. Patch explains that a third Amazon Fresh market will be opening, this one in East Setauket. The checkout-free store will open in a former Waldbaum's. (Patch)
2. This weekend a unique holiday festival is coming to Port Jefferson. The Charles Dickens Festival runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. There will be concerts, skating, and horse and carriage rides. (News 12)
3. Lisa Finn reports that former Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota and his chief investigator Christopher McPartland will both surrender and head to jail on Dec. 10. (Patch)
4. It's not just Christmas trees that get lit on Long Island. The annual lighting of the Big Duck in Flanders was back this year last weekend after a year off due to COVID-19. It was the 33rd annual lighting of the 90-year-old duck. (News 12)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• FJC/JAE Report Cards posted to Parent Portal, Rocky Point schools.
• Deadline to purchase high school yearbook, $85, Rocky Point High School.

Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch Notebook

• North Shore Public Library has gingerbread house decorating kits available for pickup Monday. (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Rocky Point: "I would like to compliment the Rocky Point Ambulance EMTs, Kim Pokorny and Jenn Kelly, on the excellent care I received when I had to be taken to Mather Hospital." (Nextdoor)

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Events:

• Super Saturday Giveaway Day! (December 4)
• Office & Home Furniture Warehouse Liquidation Sale (December 4)
• Holiday Tree Lighting at The Shoppes (December 4)
• Big Apple Circus is NOW OPEN in New York City! (December 12)
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Job listings:

• Lumber yard worker/ facility attendant/ Customer Service (Details)
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— Jackie

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