🌱 Standoff With Police In Lake Grove + Lost In Manorville Woods

Hello all. It's me, your host of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily — here to impart all the most important things happening locally. Keep reading for the latest.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 67 Low: 52.

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

1. Jarrod Pearson, 43, of Lake Grove, was arrested in connection with the assault of a woman in his family after a five-hour standoff with Suffolk police on Sunday morning, police said. Pearson was involved in a domestic dispute with a woman in his family when he tried to choke her. (Patch)
2. A father and his three young sons who got lost in a Manorville park were rescued by Suffolk police after more than two hours Sunday night. The West Babylon man took his 8-, 10- and 13-year-old boys to Manorville Hills County Park for a bicycle ride around 6:30 p.m., before becoming lost after losing cell phone signal. (Patch)
3. A man fell from a ninth-floor hotel balcony in Hauppauge early Monday morning.
   Alexander Keating, 24, of South Amboy, New Jersey, was on the balcony of a room on the ninth floor at the Hyatt Regency Long Island, at 1717 Motor Parkway, when he fell over the railing around 12:45 a.m. (Patch)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Rocky Point High School Spring Concert, High School Auditorium, 6 and 8 p.m., Rocky Point High School.
• Rocky Point High School Shared Dec Meeting, 2:15 p.m., Rocky Point High School.
• Rocky Point JAE and Middle School Grades 4 and 8 NYS Science Performance Assessments Begin, Rocky Point UFSD.

From my notebook:

• Stony Brook University graduated 7,600 students on Friday at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, at the school's 62nd annual commencement ceremony. The university saw a record number of bachelor degrees this year. (Greater Long Island)
• Museums on Long Island are celebrating Asian Heritage Month this May with special exhibits. “Auspicious Dreams: Tribal Blankets from Southern China" is at Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center, Skylight Gallery and Zodiac Gallery, 100 Nicolls Road.(Subscription: Newsday)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "Anyone have beech trees on their property that are dying? Well, here’s why." (Nextdoor)

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Now you're in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Tuesday! I'll see you soon.

— Jackie

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