🌱 Officer Thrane Leaves Hospital + Missing Centereach Woman

Morning, people of Miller Place-Rocky Point! It's me again, your host of the Miller Place-Rocky Point Daily.

A woman is missing from Centereach and a teenage girl is missing from Riverhead. The police officer who spent weeks in a coma after being hit by a drunk driver was released from the hospital today.

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Partial sunshine. High: 45 Low: 31.

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Here are the top stories today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

1. Peggy Spellman Hoey reports that Suffolk police are looking for a missing Centereach woman. Melissa Molinari was last seen at her Lolly Lane home on Nov. 21. (Patch)
2. News 12 shows the release of Suffolk police officer Tim Thrane from the hospital Friday. Officer Thrane, 35, was struck by a drunk driver on Nov. 2 and placed in a medically induced coma. (News 12)
3. Police released the name of the man shot in Coram. 25-year-old Branzel Bonner Jr. of Shirley was found in the woods on Middle Country Road Thursday morning. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. A Smithtown attorney was sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing $2 million in a wrongful death inheritance from a 4-year-old girl. Vincent J. Trimarco, Jr. pleaded guilty to stealing the money from Rebecca Schaefer, whose lawyer is Miller Place's John Ray. (Smithtown Matters)
5. An alert has been issued for 13-year-old Angelica Ortiz-Cano who was reported missing on Thursday from her house on Lewis Street in Riverhead. (Daily Voice)

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Today in Miller Place-Rocky Point:

• SAT & Subject Tests, Rocky Point High School.
• Rocky Point PTA Holiday Boutique, Rocky Point Middle School, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch Notebook

• Free mammogram screenings will be held in Selden on Monday. Stony Brook Cancer Center's Mobile Mammography Van will be at 575 Middle Country Road from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (tbrnewsmedia.com)
• The Mount Sinai – Miller Place Chamber will hold its annual Holiday Party at The Hamlet at Willow Creek in Mt. Sinai on Dec. 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. (Patch)
• Inspector Matthew McCormick: "Community Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 7 at the 7th Precinct." (Nextdoor)

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