🌱 Cocaine In Deadly Car Crash + New Apartments Approved

Get on up, Shirley-Mastic! Let's get this Sunday started off right. Here are the most important things going on in town today.

A large new apartment complex is one step closer to coming to Middle Island. And the Blue Point man who killed a Medford teenager with a stolen pickup truck tested positive for cocaine.

First, today's weather:

Cooler with partial sunshine. High: 51 Low: 37.

Here are the top stories today in Shirley-Mastic:

1. Northforker looks at a new B&B in Brookhaven hamlet created by actress Isabelli Rossellini on Mama Farm, a 28-acre estate. Her home is an old barn converted into a living space with an indoor pool. (Northforker)
2. Patch tells us that a Blue Point man tested positive for cocaine after his pickup truck crashed into a car killing a man last month. Robert Hengeveld, 50, was driving a stolen 2004 Toyota Tacoma on Long Island Avenue in Holtsville when a Suffolk police officer tried to stop him on Oct. 19. He then crashed into and killed Starlin Manuel Diaz Felipe, 19, of Medford. (Patch)
3. Nicholas Grasso tells us that the Scalamander Cove apartment complex planned for Middle Island has been approved. After 15 years, the project to build 96 one- and two-bedroom apartments at the intersection of Rocky Point and Middle Country roads got conditional approval this week. (Greater Long Island)

Shirley-Mastic Patch Notebook

• The No. 2 ranked William Floyd Colonials shut out No. 7 Brentwood by a score of 42-0 in the opening round of the Suffolk County Division I playoffs. (Patch)

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