🌱 Shirley-Mastic Daily: Stolen Credit Cards + LI's COVID Spike

Happy Tuesday, neighbors! Let's start today off on an informed note. Here's everything going on today in Shirley-Mastic.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 44 Low: 32.

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

1. Suffolk detectives are looking for a person who used stolen credit cards at a gas station in Medford earlier this month. The cards were stolen from a pocketbook at a business on Peconic Avenue, and used at a BP gas station on Route 112 on Dec. 9 around 12:30 p.m. (Patch)
2. Numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing on Long Island and now Nassau and Suffolk's seven-day positivity rate is the highest in New York State at 9.32 percent. Nassau and Suffolk reported 3,973 new cases on Sunday, with a total of 24 confirmed omicron cases on Long Island. (News 12)
3. Nesconset-based nonprofit Paws of War gave out holiday gift bags worth $600 each to Long Island veterans and their canines on Sunday. Paws of War helps connect veterans with canine companions. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone has appointed Risco Mention-Lewis as Suffolk's Acting Police Commissioner. She has been deputy commissioner since 2012 and is the first Black commissioner in the county's history. (Patch)

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Today in Shirley-Mastic:

• Case Manager, Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library, noon to 3 p.m.
• Boy Scout Troop 138, Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library, 6:30 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Experts from Stony Brook Medicine's post-COVID-19 clinic will discuss long-term effects and approaches to care today in a virtual forum, live-streamed at 4:45 p.m.
• Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard is giving away 200 Christmas trees for free to families in need or anyone who wants a tree. (Patch)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, North Shirley: "Can anyone recommend me a wallpaper installer please? In dire need of one." (Nextdoor)

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— Jackie