🌱 Storm Damage, Tornado + Movie Theater Reopens + Feeding LI

Rise and shine, Sachem! Let's get you all caught up to start this Monday, November 15 off on an informed note. Here's everything happening in town today.

Check out how Long Island fared after Saturday's damaging winds and storms. A local woman is organizing Suffolk to help feed needy families. And a favorite movie theater is finally reopening after almost two years.

First, today's weather:

Increasingly windy. High: 49 Low: 34.

Here are the top stories in Sachem today:

1. Patch checks out the damage from Saturday's sudden wind storm. Part of a Chipotle store in Shirley was destroyed and trees were down across Suffolk County after tornado warnings. (Patch)
2. Patricia Blair from East Islip launched a hospital-staff feeding effort during the pandemic, and then this July she founded the Suffolk County Women’s Alliance to End Food Insecurity, a not-for-profit in Blue Point that currently has about 40 members. On Saturday the group, along with Northwell Health and Lessing's Hospitality Group, donated food to feed 500 LI families. (Greater Long Island)
3. Ana Borruto tells us that Sayville Cinemas will reopen after a 20-month-long closure.
   The independent movie theater first show will be a 1 p.m. screening of the new film, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” this Friday. (Greater Long Island)

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Today in Sachem:

• PTA Meeting, 7 p.m., Connetquot schools
• Connetquot High School, First Day Winter Sports Tryouts, 2:30 p.m.
• Grade 5 Band, 2:30 to 3:10 p.m., Nokomis School, Holbrook
• PTA Meetings, 7 p.m., Nokomis School, Helen B Duffield, Edith L Slocum, Sachem schools
• Senior Trip Registration Deadline at Sachem North High School

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