🌱 Southern PKWY Crash + Holiday Festival + Toy Drive-Thru

Up and at 'em, Three Village! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's what's happening around Three Village today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 44, low: 38.

Here are the top stories today in Three Village:

1. The Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s 42nd Annual Holiday Festival will return on Sunday, Dec. 5, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Stony Brook Village Center, with Santa, displays, activities and more. This is an entirely free event. The festival will feature music from WALK 97.5 throughout the day, Wiggs Optician’s Holiday Train Display, carolers, a performance from Roseland Dance Studio, and a petting zoo. The Bethel AME Choir will be returning to help brighten spirits with a performance. (tbrnewsmedia.com)
2. The St. James Fire Department Engine Company No. 1 will hold its second annual St. James Community Holiday Gift & Toy Drive-Thru on Saturday, Dec. 4 at Gyrodyne/Flowerfield in St. James from noon to 4 p.m. Visitors will enter via the entrance on Route 25A. Donations of an unwrapped toy or gift card are requested. This year, multiple St. James organizations are collaborating on the event. (tbrnewsmedia.com)
3. Thousands of people flocked to Main Street in Sayville on Saturday to soak in the triumphant comeback of what is perhaps the community’s most treasured traditions: ‘Miracle on Main.’
   The event, back at full strength after the Greater Sayville of Commerce hosted a scaled back “mini” version in 2020 due to the pandemic, went off without a hitch. Kicking off with a holiday parade, the daylong event featured a mini ice-skating rink, a Gingerbread House competition, live music, dance performances, the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, plenty of amusements for children and, of course, a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. (Greater Long Island)
4. A passenger in a vehicle that crashed into a pole on the Southern State Parkway in Hempstead died Sunday, according to the New York State Police. The vehicle was going westbound at about 1:15 p.m. on the Southern State, west of exit 22, when it left the roadway and struck the pole. The driver and two passengers were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. A third passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries. A fourth passenger was also taken to a hospital, and died from injuries sustained in the crash. State police ask anyone who witnessed the crash or have information about it to call 631-763-3300. (Newsday)

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Today in Three Village:

• Boyle Holiday Boutique — Comsewogue School District. (All Day)
• Art of Giving — Stony Brook University. (4 p.m.)
• Teen Talk — Comsewogue Public Library. (6 p.m.)
• Bach at Stony Brook: Faculty Bach Recital. (7 p.m.)

Three Village Patch Notebook

• Boys & Girls Village (BGV), a leader in providing mental health treatment, permanency planning and educational services for Connecticut’s most vulnerable youth, announced today that its annual holiday toy drive is underway. (HamletHub)
• Fire Departments from Fairfield and Norwalk helped extinguish a one-alarm shed fire in town Sunday afternoon, officials said. There were no injuries to civilians or fire crews. (Fairfield Citizen)
• Suffolk police have lifted a request for Sound Beach residents to shelter in place Sunday after taking a subject who had barricaded himself in a home into custody. The subject suffered self-inflicted but non-life-threatening injuries during the incident on Babylon Drive. (Newsday)

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— Debora Whitehead

About me: Debora Whitehead is a dedicated wife and homeschooling mom from Coram, NY. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Education and loves to teach and write. Her passion for the community reflects on her volunteering work at the 'Mariposa Ministry," a nonprofit family assistance program. One of her strongest believes is Jesus Christ and when she is not parenting, teaching or reading, she is writing. One of her favorites quotes is "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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