🌱 2 Fatal Memorial Day Motorcycle Crashes + Rocky Point Baseball Win

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First, today's weather:

Cooler with a thunderstorm. High: 68 Low: 60.

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

1. A fatal motorcycle crash happened on Monday in Yaphank around 5 p.m. David Acevedo, 32, was riding a 2013 Suzuki motorcycle north on Sills Road when he went through a red light and hit a 2020 Mercedes-Benz SUV going west. Acevedo, of Hampton Bays, was pronounced dead at the scene. (Patch)
2. A second fatal motorcycle crash occurred on Memorial Day at 9:35 p.m. in Rocky Point.
   A man, whose name has not yet been released, was riding a 2003 Suzuki motorcycle south on Rocky Point Yaphank Road between Whiskey Road and Route 25A, when he lost control of the motorcycle and struck a tree. (Patch)
3. Rocky Point's baseball team defeated Mount Sinai to nab the Suffolk A title on Monday, 23 to 3. Rocky Point will play the winner of the Clarke/Calhoun series in the Long Island championship this Saturday at 4 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s Athletic Complex in Patchogue. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Detour III Art Exhibit at East End Arts, East End Arts 133 East Main St., Riverhead.

From my notebook:

• The Manorville Fire Department and police rescued an unnamed 51-year-old man who was reported missing about 6:38 p.m. in the Manorville woods. He was hiking for four hours before he got lost on Monday night in Manorville Hills County Park. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Miller Place: "Has anyone filled in wide cracks in an asphalt driveway? Want to use an asphalt filler, not hot rubber." (Nextdoor)
• A family who owns 100 acres of vineyards in Mexico, Rivero-González family, recently bought Martha Clara Vineyards for $15 million in 2018 and rebranded it as RGNY. (Long Island Press)

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— Jackie

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