🌱 Local Election Gets No Votes + Dog Found Safe After Escaping Fire

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First, today's weather:

Times of clouds and sun. High: 79 Low: 66.

Here are the top three stories in Miller Place-Rocky Point today:

1. A dog was found safe a month after a fire an a Port Jefferson Station home. Zeke, a six-year-old Labrador retriever mix, ran away on July 10 and his owner, an 83-year-old woman, died in the fire. The woman's 76-year-old husband is in the hospital. (Patch)
2. No one voted in the recent Brookhaven Town Tri-Harbor Ambulance District referendum on changes to volunteers’ retirement plans. The final results of Tuesday's vote were 0-0. Tri-Harbor is 20, 3030 residents in Mount Sinai, Port Jefferson and Belle Terre. (Subscription: Newsday)
3. A Bellport man has been convicted of a violent armed home invasion in Shirley. Miguel Ruiz, 29, attacked an autistic 18-year-old in the incident on May 7, 2021. (News 12)

Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• Sing 2 - Movies in the Moonlight, Heritage Park, 633 Mount Sinai-Coram Rd, Mt Sinai, 8:15 p.m.

From my notebook:

• The Greene Institute for high school journalists returned to Stony Brook University for the first time since the pandemic. High school students practiced reporting, writing, shooting and editing multimedia stories. (Stony Brook News)
• The Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $5,000 reward for information about who owned a recently escaped and then captured Eurasian lynx.
  The Eurasian lynx was captured on July 29 in Central Islip. (News 12)
• Nextdoor Neighbor, Rocky Point: "I have toy poodle puppies for sale. They will be available in September. If you interested contact me so I can save it for you." (Nextdoor)

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