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Good morning Commack! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Can you help identify the suspect in this Commack shoplifting case?
  • What a Commack fertility expert wants you to know about egg freezing
  • How Commack sting operations helped secure this dealer's conviction.

Also on today's calendar: Pop Up Sale for Mental Health Prevention - 1 day only and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Not as warm but humid, with a high of 75 and low of 66 degrees.
  • Saturday: Humid with rain, temps: high: 75, low: 69.
  • Sunday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 82 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Crook Goes Shoplifting at Commack Business, Walks Out with Over $500 in Merchandise (longisland.com) — A man is wanted for stealing more than $500 in jewelry from the Hobby Lobby on Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack on two consecutive days in May. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward and is asking anyone with information to submit anonymous tips by phone, app, or online.
   

• AOC is freezing her eggs. Your questions on the process, answered (epicenter-nyc.com) — A Commack-based fertility specialist from Stony Brook Medicine's Island Fertility Center explains what locals should know about egg freezing and IVF, from medical steps to realistic costs and insurance limits. Using Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's public egg-freezing journey as context, he breaks down how age, ovarian reserve tests, and health factors shape decisions for New Yorkers considering preserving their fertility.
   

• LI Man Convicted Of Selling Cocaine To Undercover Cop In Commack, Melville: DA (patch.com) — Several undercover drug buys at the Lowe's shopping center in Commack helped Suffolk police and prosecutors secure a conviction against a Freeport man on multiple cocaine sale and possession charges. He now faces a potential decades-long prison sentence at a September 21 hearing.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday August 21
  • Chance The Rapper →
    Paramount, 370 New York Ave, Huntington
    8:00 pm
    • Saturday August 22
  • Replacing Victor's Headstone – In person →
    Brentwood Public Library, 34 Second Ave, Brentwood
    12:30 pm
  • 2 One-Act Plays The Stoop and The Dinner →
    Harborfields Public Library, 31 Broadway, Greenlawn
    2:00 pm
  • Who's Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience →
    Paramount, 370 New York Ave, Huntington
    8:00 pm
    • Monday August 24
  • HS 1st Day of HS Fall Sports
    Northport-East Northport UFSD Northport, NY 11768
  • Board of Education Regular Meeting 8:00pm at FGAC (Exec Session 6:30pm)
    Half Hollow Central School District Huntington Station, NY 11746
  • Summer Sports Physical
    Brentwood High School Brentwood HS, Ross & Sonderling Nurse's Offices
    8:30 am
    • Tuesday August 25
  • HS Freshman Orientation
    Northport-East Northport UFSD Northport, NY 11768
  • HS Incoming Freshman Orientation 10:00 AM
    Northport-East Northport UFSD Northport, NY 11768

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  • QuickChek Fresh Convenience posted a job opening for Team Member - Part Time in Commack. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Smithtown

Hauppauge

  • Bodybar Pilates opening second Long Island location in Hauppauge (newsday.com)

Brentwood

  • LI Man Gets 18 Years For Stabbing, Strangling Sleeping Wife: DA (patch.com)

Ok Commack! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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