Week in Review: Mt. Sinai Budget Set for Vote, Community Talks Target

An 18-year-old man was sent to the hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car early Sunday morning on Magnolia Drive in Rocky Point.

The driver, a 17-year-old from Rocky Point, was charged with DWI after the accident, according to Suffolk Police.

Police said a group of teens were hanging out in a car on Magnolia Drive when one of the kids got out of the car, a 2003 Mitsubishi, and was accidently struck by the vehicle at approximately 1:48 a.m.

Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School Dean of Students Joe Zito shaved his hair into a Mohawk after losing a challenge with the elementary school students who raised about $2,000 in support of Tommy Scully, a student who underwent brain tumor surgery. Click the link above for photos.

Mount Sinai School District will put up a new budget for a vote on June 19 after last month.

The $54.6 million budget is a decrease of .53 percent over last year’s operating budget, according to a summary released by the school and posted onto its website. The increase in the tax levy in the proposed budget is 2.13 percent. The cost to homeowners is $233.43 per $100 of assessed valuation or $13.40 more per month on average.

Drivers heading east on 25A from Miller Place to Rocky Point will find it easy to spot pool service and supply stores, with a handful within a mile or two of each other.

With this Spring being the warmest ever on Long Island, business has been as high as the temperatures and customers are hurrying to get their pools ready for the season.

"Business has been ridiculous," said Robert Schmit, manager of in Miller Place. "We’re putting up record numbers on a weekly basis. Unless it turns into a rainy and cold summer, it’ll keep going."

The developers for the owner of the vacant Drive-In/Driving Range on 25A in Rocky Point held an information session at Majestic Gardens Monday for proposed development of a Target store.

Three long tables were set up with drawings and schematics along with economic data on the proposed development of a Target in that location. At the informal gathering, interested community members came by and a group against the Target called Dont Target Rocky Point picketed outside and made themselves seen and heard. Current zoning would not allow a big box store at the location.