🌱 Prison For Man Who Drove Drunk, Killed Mom + New Police Class

Good day, neighbors! It's me again, your host of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily.

More information about the small plane crash in Quogue has emerged. A new police class has started training in Suffolk, and this one promises to be more diverse. And a Shirley man has been sent to prison for driving drunk and killing a woman, who was driving her three children.

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First, today's weather:

A couple of morning showers. High: 59 Low: 50.

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

1. Peggy Spellman Hoey reports that a Shirley man was sentenced Tuesday to prison for a drunk driving crash that killed a Farmingville woman and seriously injured her three daughters. Christopher Montpetit, 37, was three times over the legal limit when he killed Erika Bautista in September 2020. (Patch)
2. This year's Suffolk County police class was sworn in. Seventy new recruits, 18 percent minorities, began training on Monday. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. Patch talks to the challenger in Suffolk's 6th Legislative District race, Republican Brendan Sweeney who is looking to unseat Democratic incumbent Legis. Sarah Anker. (Patch)
4. Northern Coast Kitchen & Cocktails opened at Stony Brook’s Hilton Garden Inn. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and you don't need to be a guest to dine. (Greater Long Island)
5. Dan's Papers explains that the small, single-engine airplane that crash landed in some shrubs in East Quogue over the weekend was piloted by a 75-year-old pilot from Manhattan. He was flying to MacArthur Airport from East Hampton. (Dan's Papers)

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Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch Notebook

• North Shore Youth Council is starting a new Art Therapy Coping Skills Group with Kelli Grossmann, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. (Facebook)

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