🌱 Queens High School Teaches Cybersecurity + Winning Lottery Tix

Happy Wednesday, people of Queens! Here are the most important things going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Cooler; a little p.m. rain. High: 46 Low: 42.

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Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. A Queens high school is one of 12 in the United States, and one of two in NYC, teaching about cybersecurity and the military. Students at Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School are some of the few across the country learning about the complex systems and principles around cybersecurity through the school's Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, known as JROTC. This September, the school will tie this program into a four-year curriculum, which aims to set students up for careers in cybersecurity as the sector sees a worker shortage. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
2. Two manhole fires caused an explosion in Jamaica on Tuesday morning. The explosion blew the cover off the manhole, buckling the roadway on 149th Street and damaging a car that was parked nearby. No injuries were reported, however, the neighborhood was without power as of Tuesday afternoon. (CBS New York)
3. A winning lottery ticket totaling $15,000 was sold at a Bayside smoke shop. According to an announcement on Friday, a winning Take 5 ticket was purchased at Bayside Smoke & Lotto Inc, located at Bell Boulevard near 41st Avenue. The ticket was worth $15,201.50 in prize money. (Patch)

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Today in Queens:

• Women’s History Month: Empower Women-Owned Small Business, At Glen Oaks Branch Library (10:30 AM)

From my notebook:

• Queens lawmakers and religious leaders are calling on New York state to include expanded Empire State Child Tax Credit in the final enacted budget. (QNS.com)
• The Queens Night Market has announced its 2022 opening dates. (Eater NY)
• An off-duty NYPD school crossing guard was arrested at her Far Rockaway home Monday for allegedly threatening her landlord with a fake handgun during an argument over the building's no-pet policy, according to the NYPD. (Twitter)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander, now living in New York. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.