🌱 Rocky Point Wrong-Way DWI + Pedestrian Hit, Killed In Coram

Rise and shine, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Let's get you started this Thursday with everything you need to know going on around town today.

First, today's weather:

Occasional rain and drizzle. High: 51 Low: 44.

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

1. A Rocky Point man was charged with drunken driving after crashing twice while driving the wrong direction in traffic on Tuesday night. A vehicle was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of Route 25A in East Shoreham by John Madden before he struck another vehicle. (Patch)
2. A Selden woman was struck and killed in Coram on Tuesday night by a car. Merlin Elizabeth Martinez was walking east across the street at 7:35 p.m. (Patch)
3. Amber Luo, a senior at Ward Melville High School in East Setauket, took third in the Regeneron Science Talent Search on Tuesday, winning $150,000. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Night of Strings Concert, Rocky Point High School Auditorium, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Centereach first graders at Our Savior New American School have started running a coin collection, raising hundreds of dollars for Ukraine. (News 12)
• Police are looking for a man who stole packages from four houses this month, on Pine Hollow Road and Northfield Road in Hauppauge and Springdale Drive and Breeze Avenue in Ronkonkoma on March 9. The suspect fled in a waiting beige Toyota Camry. (News 12)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Rocky Point: "Any at home project training groups? I’ve seen many posts about needing a handy man, but I would like to learn than hire. I feel those who are in the independent biz could maybe charge a fee for small training projects." (Nextdoor)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Thursday! See you all tomorrow morning for your next update.

— Jackie