🌱 Smithtown Daily: LI Lottery Wins + Testing Locations Portal

Up and at 'em, Smithtown! It's Tuesday, Diane Witek here to get you started with everything you need to know going on in town today. Here are the top 3 stories in Smithtown today.

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Partly sunny and milder. High: 49, low: 39.

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Here are the top stories in Smithtown today:

1. Powerball lottery tickets worth $50,000 were sold on Long Island. No one won the Powerball jackpot, but the third-place winning tickets were sold at Guinta’s Meat Farms on Portion Road in Ronkonkoma and another was sold in East Meadow. (Newsbreak)
2. Yesterday - a new online portal launched for 13 new COVID-19 testing locations across New York State. Two of the facilities are on Long Island; in Suffolk County at the IBEW Local 25 on Motor Parkway in Hauppauge; in Nassau County at Kennedy Memorial Park on Greenwich Street in Hempstead. Residents can make an appointment starting today. (News 12)
3. Construction starts for major flood risk management project on Long Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, recently gathered with elected officials at Fire Island Lighthouse, Bay Shore, to commemorate construction for a major coastal-storm risk-management project. The Fire Island to Montauk Point (FIMP) Project is projected to reduce flood risk for Long Islanders along 83 miles of coastline in Suffolk County from Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point. This comprehensive, $1.7 billion project includes a variety of features to reduce coastal flood risks. The New York District will lead construction efforts in concert with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), the non-federal sponsor, in cooperation with Suffolk County, the Towns of Babylon, Islip, Brookhaven, Southampton and Easthampton. (LongIsland.com)

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Today in Smithtown:

• Escape the Room Jr. (Smithtown Library). (3 p.m.)
• Open Knit and Crochet Night (Smithtown Library). (5 p.m.)
• Chess and Checkers Buddies Volunteers (Smithtown Library-Nesconset Building). (5 p.m.)
• Start the New Year With Meditation (Smithtown Library-Nesconset Building). (7 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "Hoping for a miracle- This little button buck was found on the side of the road listless and could hardly stand. Most likely he was hit by a car." (Facebook)
• Sweetbriar Nature Center: "A peek inside one of our incubators shows you a gull that was brought in to our clinic unable to fly. She is now resting comfortably in front of a mirror we provide for company. We expect a full recovery within a few weeks." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

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