Hospital Employee Suspensions + Oktoberfest Celebrations

Morning, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Here's everything you need to know to get this Thursday started off right.

More hospital employees are being suspended for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate but one local hospital has a compliance rate of over 90 percent. Oktoberfest has kicked off at a Manorville farm brewery. And a longstanding Stony Brook restaurant is closing, and selling everything inside.

First, today's weather:

Partly cloudy throughout the day. High: 64 Low: 53.

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

1. Peggy Spellman Hoey reports that 93 percent of Stony Brook Hospital staffers have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot. Since Monday when the health care worker vaccination mandate went into effect there have been 75 suspension letters, and an unknown number of employees are on voluntary suspension. (Patch)
2. Greater Long Island tells us that it's officially Oktoberfest season at Long Island Farm Brewery in Manorville. The German heritage celebration kicked off on Tuesday. (Greater Long Island)
3. The Daily Voice explains that Pentimento restaurant, which is closing after years of business in Stony Brook, is selling everything inside, days before closing. (Daily Voice)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Rocky Point High School Open School Night, 7 p.m.
• HS Grade 9 Parent Orientation Auditorium, 6:30 p.m., Rocky Point High School.
• PTA FJC/JAE Picture Days, Rocky Point UFSD.

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• Rocky Point High won its Homecoming football game 34 to 22. (tbrnewsmedia.com)

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