🌱 Five People Dead In House Fire + Pedestrian Killed + Log Cabin

Happy Thursday, people of Miller Place-Rocky Point! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

A house fire killed five people in Riverhead. A man was fatally hit by a car in Centereach. And this Saturday is Brookhaven's Polar Plunge. Find out why your neighbors are jumping in.

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First, today's weather:

Breezy. High: 65 Low: 40.

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

1. ABC News reports from Riverhead where a fire killed five people in a multi-family house. Five others escaped from the house, a historic three-story structure on E. Second Street. (WABC-TV)
2. Patch talks to a family who's planning to polar plunge on Saturday in Cedar Beach on Mt. Sinai. The event raises money for the Special Olympics. (Patch)
3. The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James is a nonprofit art studio with day and evening art classes. (LongIsland.com)
4. News 12 has the story on a man fatally struck by a car and killed in Centereach. It happened at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Middle Country Road, east of Wood Road. A van hit 43-year-old Jose Palino Ajuilar, of Centereach. (News 12)
5. Ever wanted to live in a real log cabin? A home built in 1986 from real Lincoln Logs is for sale in Rocky Point for $579,000. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• NYSCAME All-County Festival, Rocky Point UFSD.
• PTA Miss Chocolate Fundraiser Pickup, Rocky Point Middle School Café.

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• Miller Place Fire Department thanks Miller Place Discount Liquors, Sound Beach Handy Pantry & 7 11 for generous donations to Stuff-A-Bus. (Facebook)
• North Shore Public Library invites writers to an Annual Open Mic, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2 to 4 p.m. (Facebook)

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