🌱 Southampton Daily: Biz Mask Mandate Lifted + Kids Art Exhibit

Up and at 'em, Southampton! Diane Witek here to get you all caught up to start this Thursday on an informed note. Here are the most important things happening today in Southampton.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and breezy. High: 45, low: 33.

Here are the top stories today in Southampton:

1. Remember studying the planets in school? Now in its 65th year, the 2022 Parish Art Museum Student Exhibition will display the Sag Harbor Elementary pre-kindergarten and kindergarten kids' work. Patch reported that this year, the Sag Harbor pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students are joining together to create the planets in the solar system complete with a 3D model of the James Webb telescope. The 2022 Parrish Art Museum Student Exhibition will be open from March 12 through April 10. (Southampton Patch)
2. Due to a dramatic decline in NYC COVID-19 cases, Gov. Kathy Hochul is lifting the indoor mask mandate for New York businesses. The policy shift comes as New York makes "tremendous progress" in the fight against the coronavirus with sharp drops in new cases, positivity and hospitalizations, the governor said Wednesday. Businesses can still require masking on their own, Hochul said. (Patch)
3. Reported by LI Business News, Stony Brook University Hospital is celebrating four consecutive years of being named to America’s 100 Best Hospitals in the country for clinical excellence by Healthgrades. It places the Suffolk facility in the top 2 percent of all hospitals “for clinical care and patient outcomes across treatment of the most common conditions and procedures.” Stony Brook University states that last fall, the Hospital was recognized by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery™, one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention™ for seven consecutive years, one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Care™ for eight consecutive years and one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™ for seven years in a row. (News 12 Bronx)
4. Suffolk Theater presents "THE ZOMBIES: Life Is A Merry-Go-Round Tour" on Sunday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $65 - $89, plus applicable fees; VIP Packages are available for $209. Tickets are available online at SuffolkTheater.com. (Broadway World)

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Today in Southampton:

• “The Clansman: A Novel that Reignited the KKK” with Joan Baum. (11 a.m.)

From my notebook:

• Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation: "Check out 𝗠𝗿. 𝗠𝗰𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 and his friends modeling one of our raffle items for our annual 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙮-𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧 befitting our Advo-Cat program. 👜 This sold out online, Tory Burch Lee Radziwill Small." (Facebook) (Website)
• Stony Brook Southampton Hospital: "Join us at the Southampton Hospital Foundation Thrift Shop for our Valentine's Day and Presidents Day Sale!" (Facebook) (Website)
• Southampton Chamber of Commerce: "The Sag Harbor Inn is hiring!" (Facebook) (Website)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Conscience Point: "Can anyone recommend a pool company to open and close in ground pools. I don’t want weekly service. Just open and closing a salted pool." (Nextdoor)

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— Diane Witek

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