🌱 Prison For Setauket Drug-Fueled Crash Driver + Road Closures

Hey, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Let's get you started this Sunday with everything you need to know going on today in Miller Place-Rocky Point.

An East Setauket man received a prison sentence for a 2020 crash where a passenger was hurt. Roads are closed in Port Jefferson today for the Dickens Festival. And a nearby school district was hit with a ransomware attack.

First, today's weather:

Sun giving way to clouds. High: 45 Low: 38.

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

1. An East Setauket man was sentenced to three to six years in prison for a Long Beach crash that left a passenger seriously injured. William Byrus, age 29, drove over 80 mph in Long Beach while high on marijuana and Xanax before crashing in 2020. (Daily Voice)
2. This weekend, several Port Jefferson roads will be closed for the annual Port Jefferson Dickens Festival. Main Street will be closed from Maple Place to Broadway, and Broadway will be closed from East Main Street to Barnum Avenue between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. today. (smithtownmatters.com)
3. Riverhead Central School District was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday causing an outage of school Internet and email accounts. Police were advised. (Daily Voice)
4. A house fire in Selden was extinguished without any injuries reported. The fire erupted at a home on South Bicycle Path around 9 p.m. Friday. (News 12)

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Children are invited to bring their letters to Santa to the old post office between 12:30-3:30 at the William Miller homestead, 75 N. Country Rd.

From my notebook:

• North Shore Public Library, Virtual concert, The Cool Trio, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "I need recommendations for a cardiologist in the Miller Place area. Must be affiliated with Mather Hospital. Thanks in advance for your help." (Nextdoor)

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