🌱 Maria Scheuring For Smithtown Supervisor + Sewer Plan

Happy Friday, 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:

Times of clouds and sun. High: 77, low: 63.

Here are the top stories in Smithtown today:

1. Candidate profile: Maria Scheuring for Smithtown Supervisor. The challenger shares why she should be elected for the 2021 election. Check out the full Q&A with Patch inside the article. (Smithtown Patch)
2. Town of Smithtown Pet Of The Week: Valentina, is a female Shih Tzu Mix who lived a sheltered early life. She is learning to come out of her shell and blossom into her own. (smithtownmatters.com)
3. Broad community support voiced for new Smithtown Business District Sewer Plan. The addition of sewer capacity to the Smithtown Business District, using a $20 million NYS grant, can move forward if part of a derelict parcel at the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center can be used to recharge clean water back into the ground. The community has asked Governor Kathy Hochul to direct State agencies to support the sewer plan, advancing efforts already underway to transfer the parcel to Suffolk County for the project. (smithtownny.gov)

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Today in Smithtown:

• Take and Make-Sugar Skull Wine Bottle (Smithtown Library). (9:30 a.m.)
• Friday Funday (Smithtown Library-Smithtown Building). (10 a.m.)
• Smithtown East Cheerleading Clinic! (4:30 p.m.)
• Edgar Allan Poe- From Literature to the Silver Screen (Smithtown Library-Smithtown Building). (7 p.m.)

Smithtown Patch Notebook

• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "Nibblet is here to remind us that it is very important to eat all of your vegetables! Especially broccoli! Did you know that broccoli is a human invention and does not grow wild, and never has." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "Our faces we hear you are coming to see Twelfth Night this weekend! Be sure to purchase your tickets in advance! smithtownpac.org, Arya Sementilli #longisland #carriagehouseplayers #spac #smithtown #shakespeare #twelfthnight." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "Take it from Borris, you need to purchase your tickets in advance for Spookley The Square Pumpkin: The Musical! Join us at the Smithtown Historical Society NOW until October 31st! smithtownpac.org #spac #longisland." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Christian School: "TODAY is the final day to be able to register for our second annual 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run! It will be held on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 9 a.m. on the SCS campus." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

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