🌱 Brookhaven Tax Increase + Soccer Game To Help Family In Fire

Good day, people of Miller Place-Rocky Point! I'm here with today's copy of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily.

Brookhaven Town will raise taxes next year. A local man won $5 million in the lottery. And the soccer team of one of the Riverhead fire victims played a game in his honor.

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Partly sunny and breezy. High: 44 Low: 28.

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

1. The Town of Brookhaven's new $316.8 million budget for next year will raises taxes 1.89 percent and add three dozen jobs that were cut during the COVID-19 pandemic. The budget means the town can reopen senior citizens programs and recreation centers closed last year. (Subscription: Newsday)
2. Patch reports that a Port Jefferson Station man won $5 million in the New York Lottery. Louis DeMayo played a scratch-off he bought in Lindenhurst. (Patch)
3. A 96-unit apartment complex has been approved in Middle Island. Scalamander Cove will be built at the intersection of Rocky Point and Middle Country roads. (Patch)
4. The Riverhead soccer team Manchester City played Sunday morning wearing shirts bearing the face of their teammate who died in last week's house fire. The game raised money to benefit his family, who lost five members in the blaze. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• District Emergency Drill, all students dismissed 15 minutes early, Rocky Point UFSD.

Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch Notebook

• The Rocky Point High School chapter of the National English Honor Society won a project grant award to fund and host a poetry night in April 2022 for National Poetry Month. (Patch)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "If anyone is seeking a tutor in grades Pre-k through 6th please let me know. I specialize in reading and writing. I also partner with a friend who consults on math in the upper grades." (Nextdoor)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Rocky Point: "Need man with van, Rocky Point to Brooklyn to move two very small sleeper couches this Saturday or Sunday." (Nextdoor)

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