🌱 Suffolk Donates Armor To Ukraine + Brookhaven Rent Relief

Hey, Miller Place-Rocky Point! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Colder with snow and rain. High: 35 Low: 33.

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

1. The Suffolk County Sheriff's Office is donating around 450 pieces of bulletproof body armor to Ukraine. The armor will be delivered with medical supplies, sleeping bags and other needed items. (News 12)
2. The Town of Brookhaven will move $1.5 million to rental assistance payments from administrative spending. The town exhausted its state Emergency Rental Assistance program funding months ago. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. A Bellport man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman with a foreign object and leaving her bloodied and unconscious in a backyard. Edward Bell, 40, pleaded guilty in January. (Patch)

From our sponsor:

Today's Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily is brought to you in part by our friends at GoodRx — the best way to save money on your prescriptions. GoodRx helps you locate the lowest prices for medications at local pharmacies, so you're not overpaying. Works for pet medications too! To see how much you can save, go to GoodRx.com.

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• JAE Shared Dec Meeting, 3 p.m., Rocky Point UFSD.

From my notebook:

• The Velvet Lounge in East Setauket officially closed in late February after decades of live music. The venue was inside the Curry Club, which recently moved Port Jefferson. (Greater Long Island)
• Rocky Point High School students Leah Alayon and Jamielyn Davi were honored by the Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied Technology's Gary D. Bixhorn Technical Center, where they are students, as employees of the month. (Patch)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "Kaylee, 20 years old, left my cottage on 76 Cedar in Miller Place. She is deaf... Saturday night she went out and for the first time in a long time, did not come home by morning." (Nextdoor)

More from our sponsors — thanks for supporting local news!

Events:

• Wine Pairing Dinner at Ruggero’s (March 10)
• Andrew's Top Gun Run (March 26)
• Add your event

Loving the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily? Here are all the ways you can get more involved:

• Send a friend or neighbor this link so they can subscribe
• Get your local business listed in front of readers
• Send me a news tip or suggestion at MillerPlace-RockyPoint@Patch.com

You're all caught up for today. I'll see you around!

— Jackie