🌱 Three Village Daily: SBU Researcher At Vanderbilt Museum

Happy Wednesday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Not as cold. High: 38, low: 29.

Here are the top 4 stories today in Three Village:

1. Vanderbilt Museum will host Stony Brook University researcher Heather Lynch for a presentation called "Mapping Penguins with satellites, Drones and other Technologies." The event will take place at Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium on Jan. 13, at 7 p.m. The presentation is based on Lynch's studies of Antarctic penguins. Tickets are $6 per person, members free. To register, visit www.vanderbiltmuseum.org. (TBRNews)
   
2. Six concert series at All Souls Church in Stony Brook continues. The concerts are on Saturdays at 6 p.m. The church is located at 61 Main St., Stony Brook. The events are free of charge but a can of food to be donated to a local food pantry is appreciated. Call 631-655-7798 for more information. (TBRNews)
3. Three Village Board of Education meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 6 p.m.
   Overflow seating in the Training Room and Gymnasium for viewing via livestream will be available as needed. During the meeting an "employment history of a particular person" will be discussed. Access the link to the videoconference at the School District website. (Three Village School District)
4. Nearby News: Restaurant reservations are 38 percent down in New York. The second wave of COVID-19 cases is starting to hurt the restaurant industry again. Caleb Silver of Investopedia said the app, Open Table, shows a great fall in the number of restaurant reservations in New York City. (News12)

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Today in Three Village:

• Clinton RIF Distribution — Comsewogue School District. (All Day)
• Terryville Book Swap — Comsewogue School District. (All Day)
• MS/HS PTSA Meeting — Port Jefferson School District. (7 p.m.)
• OMBUDS Online Workshops: Coaching Skills for Supervisors. (9 a.m.)

From my notebook:

• "A more than century-old impediment to a natural breeding area for river herring traveling from the Peconic River is about to be circumvented with construction of a $1 million fish passage this winter, in time for the spring spawning season." (Newsday/Subscription Required)
• "Friday’s snowstorm, while not a major snow event, was enough to complicate things mightily for the Riverhead Highway Department and its newly installed superintendent. Crews had just begun the much-delayed loose leaf pickup on Monday, Jan. 3 and were at it less than three full days before they had to shift gears and focus on snow removal."(RiverheadLOCAL)
• "RBK pediatrics in Bay Shore has nearly doubled in size by taking over a neighboring Montessori School that was vacant. And the growing practice got straight to work in renovating the now-5,000-square-foot space to better service local children and families."(Greater Long Island)
• Stony Brook University: "An incredible team of researchers from #SBU have found a way to disinfect N95 respiratory masks and maintain their material and shape: Dry heat." (Facebook)

Events:

• Fun with Toddlers — Comsewogue Public Library. (Jan. 13)
• Health Screenings — Comsewogue Public Library. (Jan. 13)

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— Debora Whitehead