🌱 Shirley-Mastic Daily: 85-Year-Old Stabbed + House Shooting

Happy Sunday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Breezy with periods of sun. High: 47 Low: 30.

Here are the top three stories in Shirley-Mastic today:

1. A man shot one man and injured another during a fight Friday inside a Brentwood house with children present. On Pineland Place a man shot another man in the wrist. (Subscription: Newsday)
2. An 85-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her son's ex-girlfriend in Deer Park on Thursday in her house. Marie Mille was killed on Smith Street by Shaquela Titley, 30, of Deer Park. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. A Centereach woman is helping other this Christmas with a pajama drive. Patricia Poggie was once 300 pounds but eventually lost 130 pounds and become involved in body building competitions. For the last 11 years, she's hosted the drive to lift spirits. (News 12)

Today in Shirley-Mastic:

• Holiday Spectacular On Ice, noon to 5 p.m., Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue

From my notebook:

• Two new COVID-19 state-run testing sites will open next this Wednesdays. One site is at IBEW Local 25 in Hauppauge. Sign-ups start Monday. (Subscription: Newsday)
• Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Christmas Eve that health care workers who test positive for COVID-19 can return to work in seven days with a negative test instead of 10. (Patch)
• Suffolk County's seven-day average positivity rate hit 13.2 percent on Saturday. (New York State Department of Health)

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— Jackie