🌱 How an unprovoked stabbing at a Babylon home led to 18 years
Babylon, New York Patch AM: a 4 min readHi Babylon! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How an unprovoked stabbing at a Babylon home led to 18 years
- What a five-year state probe just revealed about Babylon schools
Also on today's calendar: 💎 Denim and Diamonds: The Ultimate Ladies' Day Out🤠 and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you fix a broken pizza? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Mostly sunny and delightful, with a high of 66 and low of 54 degrees.
- Friday: Sunny, nice and warm, temps: high: 73, low: 45.
- Saturday: Partly sunny and cooler, with a high of 58 and low of 45 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Man Pleads Guilty To Stabbing Victim In Neck At Babylon Home: DA (patch.com) — A Yonkers man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for stabbing a stranger in the neck inside a Babylon home, after pleading guilty to first-degree assault. Suffolk County police quickly tracked and arrested him on nearby roads, and prosecutors say the victim survived after extensive surgery and continues to recover. 
• NY AG report blames Babylon School administrators for decades of educator sexual misconduct (news12.com) — State investigators say Babylon School District administrators failed for decades to properly address reports of educator sexual misconduct, allowing abusive behavior to become normalized. A new New York Attorney General report validates former students’ accounts, including a 2011 Babylon Junior-Senior High School graduate who first went public with her story five years ago.
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Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting →
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Long Island Museum Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Lily's Babylon, 345 Deer Park Avenue, Babylon
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Victims of Rock at Lily's Babylon →
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Friends of the Lindenhurst Library Book Sale →
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Babylon Bean Coffee House, 17 Fire Island Ave, Babylon
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Book Signing →
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CHEF'S ARSENAL Pre-Black Friday 2-Day Warehouse Sale! Le Creuset, Wusthof & More →
999 S Oyster Bay Rd, Building 110A, Bethpage, NY, 11714
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🗞 Nearby News
West Islip
- High school sports playoff roundup: Soccer, girls volleyball, field hockey and girls swimming (newsday.com)
- New book revisits the 2023 killing of an unhoused man in crisis on the NYC subway (kunc.org)
- Catholic Health names deacon as new CEO (newsday.com)
West Babylon
- 169 G Avenue Ch. 7 — 26-74165, E.D.N.Y. (bankruptcyobserver.com)
- Sebastian Lens, Owen Blair goals send West Babylon boys soccer to its first semifinals in the 21st century (newsday.com)
Bay Shore
- Bay Shore Man Arrested, Accused Of Possessing Child Pornography: Police (patch.com)
- Bay Shore Hospital Among Nation's 50 Best For Cardiac Surgery: Healthgrades (patch.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "How do you fix a broken pizza?" — With tomato paste! (Thank you Douglas D. for sending it in!)
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