Schoolyard Drunk Driver + Girls Softball May Return To Hewlett

Good morning Five Towns!

In today's Daily, read about a drunk driver who crashed into a school. Some Hewlett and Woodmere families want to see girls softball come back—find out how to get involved. The man charged in the West Hempstead Stop & Shop shooting pled not guilty. Local college and high school students are excelling: find out who.

First, today's weather will be clear all day and the temperature will get up to 81 degrees.

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Today's top news from the Five Towns:

1. Jerry Barmash has the story on Edward Coghlan, 73, who was arrested and charged with drunk driving. He crashed his car on Wednesday into another vehicle at a Wendy's on Ocean Avenue before slamming into a chain-link fence at Rhame Avenue Elementary School in East Rockaway, according to police. (Patch)

2. Olivia Ramseur tells us how Hewlett-Woodmere Little League may bring back girls softball for the first time in years. Interested parents are hoping for a fall league. The league would need 50 girls to sign up. Contact Mike Savin at Msavin1984@yahoo.com for more information. (LI Herald)

3. Matthew Ferremi talks to teenagers who got their COVID-19 vaccines recently at the Five Towns Community Center in Lawrence. 75 young people aged 12 to 16 received a first dose of the Pfizer shot. (LI Herald)

4. Bridget Murphy updates us on the alleged Stop & Shop shooter Gabriel DeWitt Wilson who pled not guilty on Friday. He encouraged the police to shoot at him, prosecutors said. The April 20 shooting at the West Hempstead supermarket killed manager Ray Wishropp, 49, from Valley Stream and wounded two others. (Newsday)

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Events in the Five Towns:

• Zoom Computer Class - Microsoft Word, 10 to 11 a.m., Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, Valley Stream

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Five Towns Notebook:

• Kaitlyn Snyder from Hewlett, majoring in Finance, was one of 126 students inducted into New York Institute of Technology's chapter of Phi Eta Sigma. (Merit Pages News)
• Delasia Graham, also of Hewlett, made the Spring 2021 Dean's List at Georgia State University. (Merit Pages News)
• Three Hewlett high school students are semi-finalists in the 2021 Clean Tech Competition: Natalie Popilevsky, Sasiru Pathiranage, and Benjamin Sherman. (Facebook)

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That's today's five minute must-know Five Towns recap. Check back to keep updated and informed. If you know of something that should be included in the Five Towns Daily, drop us a note at fivetowns@patch.com!

-Jackie

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