🌱 Shirley-Mastic Daily: Helping Slain LI Mom's Kids + Petito Doc

Hello, neighbors! I'm here with your Sunday issue of the Shirley-Mastic Daily.

First, today's weather:

Winds gradually subsiding. High: 41 Low: 22.

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

1. The brother of slain Long Island mom Melissa Molinari has set up a GoFundMe for her five children, four under age 18. Molinari's husband, from Centereach, has been charged with her murder. (Patch)
2. Peacock TV premiered a documentary on the Gabby Petito case on Friday. "The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies, and Social Media" is billed as including an exclusive interview with the slain Long Islander's parents. (Patch)
3. Island Harvest usually helps deliver food to Long Islanders but this year they are asking for donations of toys for the holiday season. Some families the group serves are unable to afford any presents for their children. (News 12)
4. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ New York District kicked off a $1.7 billion project at the Fire Island Lighthouse on Friday. The Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) coastal-storm risk-management project will reduce flood risk along 83 miles of coastline from Fire Island to Montauk Point. (East End Beacon)

Today in Shirley-Mastic:

• The Smith Point Light Show is running from now until January 9th. (Instagram)

From my notebook:

• “Wreaths Across America” is a national movement to place wreaths at the gravesites of service members at more than 2,500 cemeteries across the country, and on Saturday Long Island volunteers decorated Calverton National Cemetery. (News 12)
• Make-A-Wish Suffolk County is at the Smith Haven and Walt Whitman malls this weekend selling Make-A-Wish ornaments. (Instagram)
• If you missed the William Floyd Winter Concert I, watch it here. (William Floyd School District)

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— Jackie