🌱 LI College Athlete Dies At 19 + Parolee Arrested For Weapons

Hello all. I'm back with your new edition of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily. Here's all the community news you need to know right now.

First, today's weather:

Variable clouds, p.m. showers. High: 75 Low: 63.

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

1. A Port Jefferson High School graduate and star athlete died suddenly this week at age 19.
   Aidan Kaminska played football and lacrosse and was a sophomore lacrosse player at UMass. (Patch)
2. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is asking the public to help find two men who police said used stolen credit cards in April. They were stolen from Carrabba's Italian Grill, at 730 Smithtown Bypass, around 7:30 p.m. on April 30 and then used at Foot Locker in the Walt Whitman Shops in South Huntington and other stores. (Patch)
3. Messiah Booker, 37, paroled from prison after participating in the January 2013 armed home invasion that led to the fatal shooting of Demitri Hampton, 21, of Riverhead, was arrested yesterday. He was charged with weapons charges, reckless endangerment and menacing charges for a May 20 disturbance at River Pointe Apartments. (RiverheadLOCAL)

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• The Clausen Agency, a local insurance agency of Rocky Point since 1979 is co-hosting a Blood Drive for the local community with the New Your Blood Center at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Rocky Point, 2 p.m.
• Friends Kitchen Free Hot Meal, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, 716 NY-25A, Rocky Point, 5 p.m. http://www.thefishchurch.com/
• Rocky Point High School Live Like Susie Award Ceremony, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• The three highest-priced home sales in St. James last month sold for from $999,000 to $1.15 million. The most expensive sold in May was a 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath colonial on 2.03 acres at 11 Holly Lane. (Subscription: Long Island Business News)
• TV news personality Dan Abrams officially opened his new vineyard in Laurel called Ev&Em Vineyards. It opened in the former Laurel Lake Vineyards. (Northforker)
• It's strawberry picking season on Long Island. Sujecki Farms & Nurseries, 758 Edwards Ave., Calverton is one local spot to check out. (News 12)

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You're officially in the loop for today. See you all tomorrow morning for another update!

— Jackie

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