🌱 Southampton Daily: Canceled Flights + New Ice Cream Shop

Hey, Southampton! Let's get you started this Tuesday with everything you need to know going on today in Southampton.

First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy and milder. High: 47 Low: 38.

Here are the top three stories in Southampton today:

1. A new, artisanal ice cream shop, A La Mode Shoppe, will open this spring at the site of the former Scoop Du Jour on Newtown Lane in East Hampton. (Patch)
2. Flights continued to be canceled on Monday due to omicron-related staffing shortages. American Airlines joined United Airlines, Delta and JetBlue in having to cut flights this week but so far no MacArthur Airport flights have been cancelled. (News 12)
3. The Wading River family whose first baby, Ruby June Cotter, received a heart transplant for Christmas two years ago is hoping their second child will also get a new heart. Everett will turn a year old on Thursday. (Patch)

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Today in Southampton:

• Regular Town Board Meeting, Town of Southampton Meetings, 1 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Free, drive-through COVID-19 testing will be available, beginning today, at the Peconic Bay Medical Center Mercy campus, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Patch)
• Riverhead Town Police are seeking two teenage boys who left Timothy Hill Children's Ranch in Riverhead. Ja-wan Groover, 15, and Anthony Salinas, 17, left the Middle Road facility on Christmas Eve around noon. (RiverheadLOCAL)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Southampton: "Any year-round rentals available? Love my place, just doesn’t allow pets and long term I would like one." (Nextdoor)

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