🌱 Ronkonkoma Officer's Funeral + House Fire Kills 5 + Polar Dip

Morning, neighbors! It's me again, your host of the Sachem Daily.

A police officer from Ronkonkoma was laid to rest yesterday. A man was killed by a car in Centereach. This Saturday is a polar plunge for the Special Olympics.

First, today's weather:

Sun, then clouds; breezy. High: 65 Low: 39.

Here are the top stories today in Sachem:

1. Patch talks to a family who's planning to polar plunge on Saturday in Cedar Beach on Mt. Sinai. The event raises money for the Special Olympics. (Patch)
2. The Atelier at Flowerfield in St. James is a nonprofit art studio with day and evening art classes. (LongIsland.com)
3. News 12 has the story on a man fatally struck by a car and killed in Centereach. It happened at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Middle Country Road, east of Wood Road. A van hit 43-year-old Jose Palino Ajuilar, of Centereach. (News 12)
4. Peggy Spellman Hoey writes that Suffolk Police Officer Vincent Pelliccio, who died in a car crash in Selden on Nov. 8, was laid to rest Wednesday in Coram. The 30-year-old Ronkonkoma resident was off-duty when he died in a car crash. He was remembered for battling cancer and his dedication to his career. (Patch)

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Today in Sachem:

• Evening Parent-Teacher Conferences, 6 to 8 p.m., Connetquot schools.
• CSS PTA Meeting, 7 p.m., Connetquot schools.
• OBMS National Honor Society Induction, 7 p.m., Oakdale-Bohemia Middle School.
• CSS PTA Meeting, 7 p.m., Cherokee Street Elementary School.
• Grundy PTA Meeting, 7 p.m., Grundy Avenue School.

Sachem Patch Notebook

• King Quality, a Bohemia roofing company, donated 150 turkeys to families on Long Island. They were given out at Lighthouse Mission's Food Outreach in Central Islip Wednesday. (News 12)

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