🌱 Hauppauge Moderna Vaccination + LI Power Outages + ST Flooding

Good day, neighbors! Diane Witek here providing you with what you need to know to get your day started off right! Here's everything that's happening in and around town today.

First, today's weather:

Sunshine and some clouds. High: 57, low: 46.

Here are the top stories in Smithtown today:

1. Moderna vaccination clinic is being offered in Hauppauge. A Moderna vaccination clinic is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Hauppauge. The event is slated to run from 1 to 3 p.m. at the H. Lee Dennison Building, said Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. Gregson Pigott. (Patch.com)
2. PSEG: More than 2,000 LI customers were without power from storm. It was another night of heavy rain and whipping winds across Nassau and Suffolk counties. But PSEG Long Island held its own and kept outages to a minimum. Anyone without power can call 1-800-490-0075. (Patch.com)
3. Smithtown Department of Public Safety: "Maple Avenue is closed from Wildwood Lane to Darling Avenue in Smithtown due to Millers Pond overflowing across the roadway. Use Route 111 or Brooksite Drive as an alternate for the rest of the day." (Facebook)

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Today in Smithtown:

• Unscrambling Special Needs Trusts. (8:30 a.m.)
• Halloween Monster Party (Smithtown Library). (3 p.m.)
• Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav’s Warning to the World on the Next SOUNDS OF FILM. (6 p.m.)
• Smarter Social Security — Strategies to Optimize Spousal Benefits (Smithtown Library). (7 p.m.)
• HSW - PTSA — Smithtown High School-West. (7:30 p.m.)

Smithtown Patch Notebook

• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "For your viewing pleasure, three tiny opossums in our care exploring their new enrichment hide pumpkin. How did 'opossum' get its name? They say it was Captain John Smith who used the term opossum for the first time in 1608." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Historical Society: "Our Adopt-An-Animal spotlight today is the last but not least of our chickens, Scout! Scout is a simple gal who enjoys exploring the grounds and loves taking a dirt bath in freshly scratched dirt." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "There are only two remaining performances of Twelfth Night! Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. Join us for a beautiful evening under the stars at The Smithtown Historical Society. smithtownpac.org, Arya Sementelli #spac." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

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