🌱 Man Shoots Teen For Doorbell Prank + Holbrook Hit-And-Run Arrest

Hello, people of Miller Place-Rocky Point! It's me again, your host of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and cool. High: 56 Low: 49.

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

1. A Laurel man was arrested and charged for shooting a male teenager in the arm Thursday night with a shotgun. It happened at 9:04 p.m. on Peconic Bay Boulevard in Laurel. James Moshier, 64, allegedly shot the boy for ringing his doorbell and running away. (Patch)
2. A witness to an alleged hit-and-run in Holbrook Thursday followed the driver home and called 911, leading to the arrest of Pauline Ross, 71, of East Patchogue. Police said she was driving on North Ocean Avenue at 10:20 p.m. when she hit a man who was walking in the roadway and kept driving. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. Stop & Shop will close an underperforming store in Islandia in May. The approximately 69,000-square-foot supermarket is in the Islandia Shopping Center and will shutter on May 12. (Patch)

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• History event at Hallock Homestead, 172 Hallock Landing Road, Rocky Point. "It is time to celebrate the oldest house in Rocky Point, the Noah Hallock Homestead, built over 300 years ago."

From my notebook:

• This two-bedroom waterfront cottage on Wildwood Lake in Riverhead has annual taxes of only $3,197 and is listed at $399,000. The 800-square-foot, one-bathroom house on Lake Avenue is on one-third of an acre on the lake. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Stony Brook University geology professors Joel Hurowitz and Scott McLennan played critical roles in building Perseverance, NASA's Mars-landing spacecraft. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Suffolk County Community College voted to freeze full-time tuition at $2,735 for the third year in a row. (Smithtown Matters)

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