🌱 Long Island Storms + Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's Exhibit + Skate

Morning, Smithtown! Diane Witek here providing you with what you need to know to get your day started off right! It's Monday, so let's get you started.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy and increasingly windy. High: 49, low: 37.

Here are the top stories in Smithtown today:

1. Storms tear across Long Island, sparking tornado warnings and leaving a trail of damage. A Sayville resident tells News 12 that he could see the storm coming from down the street. Officials say they're working to turn the power off in the building where a large tree fell. The Red Cross is helping those who have been displaced. (Newsbreak.com)
2. Vanderbilt Museum's new exhibit explores Alva Vanderbilt Belmont's suffragist spirit. Originally planned for 2020 as a centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, it is on display in the Vanderbilt Mansion’s Lancaster Room on the first floor and offers an overview of Alva’s life while highlighting her fervent support for the women’s suffrage movement. The exhibit is set up in five sections: Early Life, First Foray, Marble House, The National Woman’s Party, and Later Life. (tbrnewsmedia.com)
3. First-ever ice skating on Main Street coming to downtown Smithtown. Next month, you'll have the opportunity to lace up your skates and kick off the holiday season with Smithtown's inaugural Ice Skating on Main Street event. On Dec. 4 from 2-7 p.m., folks can ice skate right on Main Street outside the Fresh Market Shopping Center, as well as partake in other holiday festivities. (Greater Long Island)(Greater Long Island

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Today in Smithtown:

• Family Connect Night K-12 - Smithtown Csd. (All Day)
• Start of Quarter 2 - Smithtown Csd. (All Day)
• Take and Make-Thanksgiving Table Runner (Smithtown Library). (9:30 a.m.)
• Wonderful Ones (Smithtown Library). (10 a.m.)
• SEPTA - Smithtown Csd. (7 p.m.)

Smithtown Patch Notebook

• Smithtown Historical Society: "Callie's Saturday morning 🥱." (Facebook)
• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "Finnegan is growing up so fast! He will always look smaller than a normal eastern cottontail because he doesn’t have any fluffy fur. We found that Finnegan hates wearing a sweater of any kind so instead, we made him a heated polar fleece." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Kickers Soccer Club: "Its a beautiful day to finish out our intramural fall season! Thank you to the coaches for volunteering! Thank you to the players for a great season!" (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "Today is the day! Join Anna, Elsa and friends at Stop & Shop Smithtown at 11am for an exclusive sneak peek of Frozen Jr. ❄️ #spac, #longisland, #longislandtheatre, #longislandparents, #mommypoppins, #smithtown, #smithtowntheatre, #smithtownperf." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Historical Society: "Our last Adopt-An-Animal spotlight is the last of our four barn cats, Ernie. Ernie is our sweet polydactyl girl who is always on the go but the first to greet morning volunteers as they arrive." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

About me: Impassioned Writer, Website Designer, Social Media Marketer and newly proclaimed Baker. Lover of nature and animals of all kinds.

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