🌱 Shirley-Mastic Daily: New Drive-Thru Testing Site + Mall Fight

Happy Wednesday, people of Shirley-Mastic! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

A.M. mist; otherwise, cloudy. High: 46 Low: 41.

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

1. Peconic Bay Medical Center opened a new drive-thru coronavirus PCR testing site in Riverhead. Testing is free and available by appointment from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (RiverheadLOCAL)
2. A fight between teens and a trash can being knocked over prompted 911 calls at the Smith Haven Mall on Monday. Officers responded to Smith Haven Mall at 4:34 p.m. after multiple 911 callers reported possible shots fired but there were no confirmed gun shots. (Patch)
3. The second annual Patchogue Plunge, hosted by the Patchogue Young Professionals, will take place on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 13. This year's plunge will benefit the Gabby Petito Foundation. (Patch)
4. Former New York Police Department chief Rodney Harrison started his new job in Suffolk on Monday, and became the first Black police commissioner in the county's history. (Patch)

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Today in Shirley-Mastic:

• Minecraft, Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library, 4 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Girl Scouts of Suffolk County shows off the tree Troop 1400 donated to the Hall of Trees. The tree is now at the American Legion Hall in Mastic Beach. (Instagram)
• Three crew members of Ridge Fire Department Emergency Medical Services were honored by Peconic Bay Medical Center for saving a patient with a severe laceration on their forearm from bleeding to death: Paramedics Matthew Mauro and Joanna Guerrero and ambulance driver Arthur Vansicklen. (Patch)
• Check out this guide to where recreational marijuana has not been outlawed on Long Island. In Suffolk County, the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead and Babylon chose not to opt out. (Patch)

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