🌱 Demolition For Town Square + Owning A Store, As A Couple

Happy Tuesday, people of Miller Place-Rocky Point! Here's what's happening around Miller Place-Rocky Point today.

A Rocky Point student got a national award. Riverhead's downtown lost two blighted buildings, and a town square is on the way. Read how some local couples manage to run a store with their partner, and keep their relationships healthy.

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First, today's weather:

Sunny and breezy. High: 66 Low: 58.

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

1. Rocky Point student Max Marte has been honored by the National Merit Scholarship program as a Commended Student. (Patch)
2. News 12 reports that demolition started Monday downtown in Riverhead's historic district on Main Street to make room for a town square. Two vacant buildings were torn down. (News 12)
3. Newsday talks to several sets of couples who own small businesses together about how they manage to balance the two. Melanie and Jose Gonzalez own Simple Good in Port Jefferson and Larry Kaiser and Margret Feinberg co-own 1760 Homestead Farm in Riverhead. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• All meal applications due to Child Nutrition Department, Rocky Point Schools.
• High School Shared Dec Meeting, 2:15 p.m., Rocky Point High School.
• Newsday Marching Band, 7 p.m., Rocky Point UFSD.

Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch Notebook

• The Miller Place High School Service Club came out to volunteer this weekend at the County Fair. (Facebook)
• Sean Hamilton, Rocky Point Class of 2022, commits to Hofstra University for baseball. (Facebook)
• Dialed Action Sports Team put on an outdoor BMX show for Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School in Rocky Point to teach responsibility. (Patch)

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— Jackie

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