🌱 Patch AM: Deer Park Senior Named National Merit Semifinalist; 3 Others Honored

Coffee in hand, Deer Park? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

• Four Deer Park seniors earn prestigious National Merit recognition
• How a Deer Park bank robbery helped send this man back.

Also on today's calendar: Annual Free Paper Shredding Event and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 80 and low of 59 degrees.
• Saturday: Partly sunny and not as warm, temps: high: 70, low: 55.
• Sunday: Chance of a little p.m. rain, with a high of 65 and low of 55 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Deer Park Senior Named National Merit Semifinalist; 3 Others Honored (patch.com) — Deer Park residents can celebrate four high-achieving Deer Park High School seniors recognized in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program. Joseph Reina was named a Semifinalist, placing him among the top 1 percent of seniors nationwide, while classmates Vincent Cacciola, Kimberly Cho and Nobin Nath earned Commended Student honors for their strong PSAT performance.
   

• Serial Kings Park Bank Robber With 'No Funny Business' Demand Note Headed Back To Prison: DA (newsbreak.com) — A convicted serial bank robber has been sentenced to five-and-a-half to eleven years in prison after robbing a Flagstar Bank branch in Deer Park and another in West Babylon in December 2025. Investigators say he implied he had a weapon while demanding cash, and was later arrested in Copiague with stolen money, a threatening note, and cocaine. Additional, unrelated charges remain pending in Suffolk County.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Deer Park

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 3
• Annual Free Paper Shredding Event →
  Mangano Funeral Home, 1701 Deer Park Ave, Deer Park
  9:00 am
Sunday October 4
• Fall in Love with Community →
  Geiger Park, Grand Blvd, Deer Park
  11:00 am
• Islip Food For Hope Stop the Clock Fundraiser →
  Harp & Hound, 528 E Main St, Islip
  12:00 pm
• Coltrane 100 Series: Sam Dillon Quartet →
  St. John's Episcopal Church, 12 Prospect St, Huntington
  5:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday October 3
• Edgewood Preserve Native Garden Maintenance, Deer Park →
  Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve, Deer Park
  9:00 am
• Homecoming Parade
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  11:00 am
• HS | Homecoming | NB vs. Huntington
  District North Babylon, NY 11703
  1:00 pm
• HS | Homecoming Dance
  North Babylon UFSD North Babylon, NY 11703
  6:00 pm
Monday October 5
• ESOL-English for Speakers of Other Languages →
  North Babylon Public Library, 815 Deer Park Ave, North Babylon
  9:00 am
Tuesday October 6
• One-on-One Medicare Counseling and Assistance →
  North Babylon Public Library, 815 Deer Park Ave, North Babylon
  9:30 am
Wednesday October 7
• Crochet Club →
  North Babylon Public Library, 815 Deer Park Ave, North Babylon
  6:00 pm
Thursday October 15
• BBBSLI The Big Mixer →
  Main Event Deer Park, 1150 The Arches Cir, Deer Park
  7:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Hello I'm looking for an affordable Handy man for some small work that needs to be done in my house but needs to know how to do electrical work as well.
  I can send pics of what needs to be done living in DP (Nextdoor Deer Park)

• CVS Health posted a job opening for Store Associate in Deer Park. Apply here.
• Burlington Stores posted a job opening for Seasonal Retail Stocking Associate - Part Time in West Babylon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Deer Park here.

🗞 Nearby News

North Babylon

• High school roundup: Girls volleyball, boys and girls soccer, field hockey and boys badminton (newsday.com)
• Clean drinking water is top concern for Long Island voters, Newsday/Siena poll finds (newsday.com)

Dix Hills

• Meet the Hair-Metal Super Fan Who Just Became Quiet Riot's New Singer (rollingstone.com)
• Times … and dates: Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, 2026 (tbrnewsmedia.com)

West Islip

• West Islip Students Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Through Music, Art (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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