🌱 Smithtown Daily: Cats! + Walking The Line + 30 Days of Dining

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Here are the top stories in Smithtown today:

1. Adorable Cats for Adoption on Long Island; available for adoption at the Town of Smithtown Animal Shelter. We hope these adorable bios and pictures will help purrsuade you to head down to your local animal shelter or rescue and bring home your new best friend.
2. Walking the Line: Johnny Cash and June Carter Tribute Christmas Show at OFF KEY TIKKI, Sunday, Dec 12. Walking the Line is the most authentic sounding and visual performance of the music of Johnny Cash, playing the most loved hits and some rare gems of Johnny Cash while recreating the look, feel and flow of Johnny Cash concerts. Vintage costumes, period accurate instruments and microphones. It is the complete package and recreation of the golden years of the Johnny Cash show. (LongIsland.com)
3. Patchogue's 30 days of dining raffle returns in time for the holiday season. The Patchogue Chamber of Commerce has officially kicked off its “30 Days of Dining” raffle. Here’s how it works: Those who enter have a chance to win one of two (or if they’re really lucky, both!) gift baskets filled with over 30 gift certificates from more than 30 Patchogue restaurants. Entries are excepted now through Dec. 31, and the winners will be announced just before 9 p.m. at Patchogue’s Midnight on Main Street New Year’s Eve Celebration. (Greater Long Island)
4. Drunken driver crashed into patrol vehicle. Coram woman is facing a driving while intoxicated charge after she crashed her vehicle into an occupied patrol car in Port Jefferson Station early Saturday. Janet Marlowe, 42, was driving a 2005 Honda Civic north on Route 112 near Sagamore Hills Drive shortly after midnight when she crashed into the police car and overturned the Civic, according to police. The patrol car, which was facing north on the shoulder with its emergency lights activated, was stopped at the scene of an earlier motor vehicle crash, police said in a news release. An officer in the police car was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Marlow was arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip; she is scheduled to appear in court again on Dec. 16. (Newsday)

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Today in Smithtown:

• The Great Cookie Fiasco (Smithtown Library.) (4:30 pm)

From my notebook:

• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "Volume up! Can you hear Turnip our screech owls wings as she flaps them. I didn’t think so? Most birds make noise while flying because of the turbulence in the air created by flapping their wings." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "Join us for Frozen Jr. today at 2pm!❄️ Tickets are selling quickly for the remainder of the run. Purchase yours today for the best seats! 🎟️: smithtownpac.org, 📸: Jackie St. Louis, #spac, #longisland." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Performing Arts Center: "We are often asked how kids and teens can become involved at SPAC. Many of our teens have started in our Theatre Education Program! Regardless of experience, SPAC offers the highest quality programs here on Long Island." (Facebook)
• Smithtown Department of Public Safety: "Once again, its that time of year for shopping scams. If you are buying goods, here are some tips from the FBI to avoid scams: Check each website’s URL to make sure it’s legitimate and secure." (Facebook)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Caroline: "Last night my neighbors and I had a couple uninvited guests. - They checked all car doors and even stole my neighbors purse credit cards and money where used immediately." (Nextdoor)

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