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Also on today's calendar: 44th Annual WICC Greatest Bluefish Tournament on Earth with $25,000 Grand Prize and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. LI Family Stranded In Fire Island Inlet Rescued By Police Hovercraft (patch.com) — A Copiague family, including a 2-year-old, was rescued after their boat ran aground in the Fire Island Inlet during low tide late Saturday night. Suffolk County Police Marine Bureau officers used a hovercraft to reach the stranded vessel and bring everyone safely to shore; the child was treated for minor injuries, and no one else was hurt.
2. LI oyster farm, arts group give shells new life (libn.com) — Fire Island School District is among the first to receive hundreds of cleaned oyster shells for student art projects, thanks to a new Long Island Creative Reuse Project. An Islip oyster farm and the Long Island Arts Alliance are teaming up to divert thousands of shells from landfills and channel them to schools, museums, and artists across the region.
3. The Annual Cherry Bowl Tournament: Over 40 Years of Building Community Trust on Fire Island (fireislandnews.com) — Fire Island's Cherry Grove just celebrated over 40 years of the Cherry Bowl volleyball tournament, where local Grovettes again defeated the Suffolk County Police Coppettes in front of a big summer crowd. Born from chance beach games in the 1970s, the now-official annual match has become a symbolic bridge between LGBTQ+ residents and law enforcement, helping heal memories of past police raids.
4. Crime and the City: Fire Island (crimereads.com) — If you love mysteries and know Fire Island's beaches by heart, this roundup of crime novels set on the island might reshape how you see familiar boardwalks and dunes. From Cherry Grove and the Pines to fictional eastern hamlets, these books mix summer escapism with murder, ghosts, and dark humor, all rooted in Fire Island's distinctive LGBTQ+ and vacation culture.
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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