Five Headlines from Nearby Towns

With all that's going on in Miller Place and Rocky Point, you may have missed some of the big stories happening in nearby towns. Patch is there to help you catch up with these five top stories.

• A South Setauket man was arrested in Centereach at the intersection of Pond Path and Route 347 early Thursday morning and charged with DWI. Joseph Perez, 26, was caught driving 120 Miles Per Hour.

• Ward Melville student Anna Sato has for a project to tackle the filtering of radioactive isotopes from water, a realistic problem the nation of Japan faces following the damage sustained by the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

• As reported last year, basketball coaches Rick Miekley, of Sound Beach, and Justin Seifert, of Port Jefferson Station, acted to save Hope Reindl's life by administering CPR after she collapsed at an open gym session in Comsewogue last year. , a medical device that ultimately helped save her life. 

• Ginny Armstrong of Port Jefferson hits like a girl, and she’s proud of it. That's because this 63-year old retiree is in the middle of training for the 2012 Long Island Fight for Charity, a boxing tournament being held at the Huntington Hilton on March 5.

• Family members and students gathered at St. Matthew Roman Catholic Church in Dix Hills Friday to say goodbye to Kerry Fitzsimons, the 21-year-old Commack resident and Marist College student Saturday.