🌱 Shirley-Mastic Daily: Community Hospital $100M Upgrade

Get on up, Shirley-Mastic! Let's get this Saturday started off right. Here's everything you need to know today in town.

Patchogue's hospital may be getting a $100 million upgrade soon. Officer Tim Thrane, who was hit by a drunk driver in Yaphank, was released from the hospital after weeks Friday.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 45 Low: 27.

Here are the top stories today in Shirley-Mastic:

1. Peggy Spellman Hoey reports that Suffolk police are looking for a missing Centereach woman. Melissa Molinari was last seen at her Lolly Lane home on Nov. 21. (Patch)
2. News 12 shows the release of Suffolk police officer Tim Thrane from the hospital Friday. Officer Thrane, 35, was struck by a drunk driver on Nov. 2 and placed in a medically induced coma. (News 12)
3. Police are searching for the person who shot and killed a man in Coram behind a shopping center on Middle Country Road Thursday. The victim is Branzel Bonner Jr. from Shirley. (News 12)
4. A Smithtown attorney was sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing $2 million in a wrongful death inheritance from a 4-year-old girl. Vincent J. Trimarco, Jr. pleaded guilty to stealing the money from Rebecca Schaefer. (Smithtown Matters)
5. LI Community Hospital in Patchogue will get $100 million worth of upgrades when it merges with NYU Langone Health. The plans need state Department of Health approval. (Subscription: Newsday)

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