Top photos from around LI from December 2021

A person takes a stroll around Mascot Dock in Patchogue as fog sets in across the Great South Bay, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021.

Goats chomp down on live wreaths and Christmas trees at Goodale Farms in Riverhead on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.

Goats chomp down on a live Christmas tree at Goodale Farms in Riverhead on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.

Deputy Assistant Chiefs Fred Schaaf and Michael Meyers are promoted to Assistant Chief as they swear in. Seventy-nine members of the FDNY were promoted on Tuesday, December 28.

Siblings Ella, 5, and Ryan Miglietta, 7, of Glenwood Landing, take a misty bike ride with their parents at North Hempstead Beach Park, just before dusk, Wednesday, Dec. 29.

Abigail Marrone, 5, from Stony Brook rides the new scooter that she got for Christmas on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021.

Lines are long outside the state testing site at Kennedy Memorial Park on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021 in Hempstead.

Lines are long outside the state testing site at Kennedy Memorial Park on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021 in Hempstead.

Rapid Covid-19 tests for rapid being conducted at Heckscher State Park in East Islip on Wedesday, Dec. 29, 2021.

Rapid Covid-19 tests for rapid being conducted at Heckscher State Park in East Islip on Wedesday, Dec. 29, 2021.

Techhnicians assist patients in ther cars at a drive thru Northwell Health covid-19 testing site at Christopher Moorely park in Roslyn on December 28, 2021.

A drive thru Northwell Health covid-19 testing site opens at Christopher Moorely park in Roslyn on December 28, 2021.

Friends Nena de Weerdt, left, and Yannick Kraus, both visiting from Belgium, take a selfie while trying to include a final glimpse of the sun as it sets over Stony Brook Harbor on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.

A tree climber removes an over 90ft decaying black walnut tree in Aquebogue on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.

William Kaltsas, 100 who served in the ARMY during WWII reflects on Pearl Harbor 80 years after the attacks.

Dina Lohan, center, arrives at the Nassau County Courthouse on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in Mineola. Lohan, the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan, is expected to be sentenced in Nassau County Court to 18 days in jail following her September plea to felony drunken driving.

Hempstead Village Deputy Police Chief Richard Holland hugs his wife as he leaves Nassau County Courthouse after being found not guilty on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021 in Mineola.

Santa Claus greets Kyan Panjvani, 9, of Syosset at Sugar Crazy in Plainview on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021...framegrab from video

Nurse Sandra Lindsay, of Port Washington, was the first in the nation to be inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer-BioNTech, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center on Dec. 14, 2020, in Queens. Lindsay reflects on how the past year has changed her life.

Demonstrators during a press conference by New York State Attorney General Letitia James in Hicksville where she annocuned her office shutting down Shake-A-Paw for alleged animal mistreatment, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

Christmas Eve travelers wait for flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. At least three major airlines have reported canceling dozens of flights as illnesses largely tied to the omicron variant of COVID-19 take a toll on flight crew numbers during the busy holiday travel season.

Lennon Harrington, 13, of Huntington, is given the flu shot by Wendy Gonzalez, RN, at Huntington Village Pediatrics, in Huntington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021.

A person walks past a COVID-19 vacccine advertisement on the side of a bus stop at the corner of Carleton Avenue and Main Street in East Islip, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.

Members of Nassau County Police Emergency Services Unit participate in Operation Holiday Drop In as they repel down Cohen Children's Medical Center as wave to children through the windows on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 in New Hyde Park.

Stony Brook University graduate Alyssa O'Hara, reacts to seeing her husband, Air Force Sr. Airman Justin O'Hara, who surprised her on the stage as she received her diploma at the Stony Brook University 2021 winter commencement on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. The couple, who live in Islip Terrace, last saw each other last August. Sr. Airman O'Hara is stationed in Alaska.

During an outing with his family, Sebastiano Bentiviegna, 7, of Smithtown, feeds the goats at Hoyt Farm Nature Preserve, in Commack, on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2021. In itÕs proposed 2022 capital budget, the Town of Smithtown will be funding a partial rebuild of the popular park located off of New Highway. The park includes an area where visitors can see barnyard animals such as goats, chickens, rabbits and pigs.

The Dairy Queen off 112 in Medford has stopped in-house dining with prominent signs on the windows blaming people harassing employees...

A crowd of people, most wearing masks, walk down an alley from Main Street in Patchogue after a show ended at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, on Dec. 21.

Members of VFW Post 361, in Wyandanch, take a break as they wait for families with children to arrive for the postÕs annual Toys for Tots holiday toy distribution on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. The VFW postÕs aging building, located on William Street, will be getting $300 thousand for much-needed renovations.

Joe Orlowski, of Bayport, crosses Main Street in Patchogue, as he walks to West Lake with intentions of fishing for trout, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.

Long lines are seen outside City MD on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 in East Meadow.

Dovid Vaisfiche juggles for the residents of the Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) of Little Plains during a Hannukah celebration on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 in Huntington.

Tyler Lipsky demonstrates how he is able to play soccer with his newly designed soccer plow which was designed by his classmates on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 in Oceanside.

Stuart Cameron, acting Suffolk police commissioner, embraces Deputy county executive Vanessa Baird-Streeter as he walks from the John L. Barry police headquarters in Yaphank after announcing his retirement after 37 years, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021.

Michael Doall, associate director for bivalve restoration at Stony Brook University's School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, inside the Marine Science Research Center in Southampton, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

Michael Doall, associate director for bivalve restoration at Stony Brook University's School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, holds juvenile bay scallops inside the Marine Science Research Center in Southampton, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

Residents wave signs along Main Street prior to a public hearing about the proposed Greybarn apartment complex in Sayville held at Islip Town Hall West in Islip, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021.

Inclement weather doesn't stop people getting out for some exercise on the boardwalk at Long Beach in Long Beach Saturday Dec. 18, 2021

Melville residents Judy Roth, front right, Susan Bloomfield right rear, are preparing the hot plates for folks who need a hot meal during these trying times, while Bill Katz of Lindenhurst deliver the meals to a window where folks are waiting outside the basement of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Wyandanch Wednesday Dec. 22, 2021. The soup kitchen cannot have facilitate the people who come with a warm place to eat because of the COVID situation. So the meal are package with food on the request of the people receiving the food.

Longwood High School Class of 2021 graduate Brayden Olive left for Navy boot camp and came home for Thanksgiving. He left again for boot camp and wasn't expected back home until the spring of 2022. But he surprises his little sister Evelyn DeLena, 8, with an early visit to her 3rd grade class at Charles E. Walters Elementary School in Yaphank Friday Dec. 17, 2021. Evelyn DeLena center with her family. Brayden Olive hugging his siblings after his surprise return. L-r Evelyn DeLena, 8, Bailey Delena, 13, Oliver DeLena, 12 and Sydney Platther, 14.

Nurse practitioner Dorothy Nanny-Rojas prepares the Pfeizer COVID vaccine outside Bonbino's Pizzaria on Moniday, Dec. 20, 2021 in Rockville Centre.

Mason Ricoy, 10, Island Park, receives his COVID 19 Pfizer Vaccine by Mary Ann DeDomenici with his mom Shannan by his side at the Island Park Public Library on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 in Island Park.

Dante Gamez, 4, of Hempstead, picks a toy during the "Winter Wonderland" event held at the Marshall School in Hempstead, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2021.

The first paid woman firefighter Catherine Lewis in the renovated Fire Department provided by the Drew Barrymore Show Wednesday Dec. 22, 2021.

People attend a rally against hate on the steps of Central Synagogue-Beth Emeth in Rockville center in response to members of the the proud boys, designated a hate group by the southern poverty law center, marching through their town on Saturday Dec 1, 2021

As part of the Toys for Tots program, members of VFW Post 361 in Wyandanch, including Charles Dawson, of Wyandanch, prepare donated toys for their annual holiday toy distribution on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. The VFW post's aging building, located on William Street, will be getting $300 thousand for much-needed renovations.

Occupational therapist Kerrin Peterson, left, of the physical therapy department at St. Charles Hospital, in Port Jefferson, show a toy bear to one of their patients, three-year-old Mia Felsberg, during her physical therapy session at the hospital on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. The bear was one of dozens donated to the hospital by the Town of Smithtown.

Three generations of the Twiss family, from left, Liz, Eleanor and Katherine take a Christmas Day walk through their Stony Brook neighborhood with their dog Karadut on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021.

West Babylon resident Maureen Kelly handing hot meals to folks during these trying times, in the basement of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Wyandanch Wednesday Dec. 22, 2021. The soup kitchen cannot have facilitate the people who come with a warm place to eat because of the COVID situation. So the meal are package with food on the request of the people receiving the food.

Bishop William F. Murphy greets parishioners after Christmas Day Mass at St. Agnes Church, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in Rockville Centre.

Parishioners celebrate Christmas Day Mass at St. Agnes Church, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in Rockville Centre.

Parishioners celebrate Christmas Day Mass at St. Agnes Church, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, in Rockville Centre.

Keechant Sewell, the chief of detectives for the Nassau Police Department, listens to Mayor Elect Eric Adams as they both addressed members of the press Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, after being introduced by as the next NYPD commissioner, and the first woman to lead the department as its third Black commissioner.

This is the area where the removal of equipment that hauled away the former Coast Guard station believed to have accelerated erosion ahead of a dredging project for the Fire Island Inlet that will pour sand at Gilgo Wednesday Dec. 1, 2021.

Keechant Sewell, the chief of detectives for the Nassau Police Department, speaks to members of the press Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, after being introduced by as the next NYPD commissioner, and the first woman to lead the department as its third Black commissioner.

Charlie and Jessica Peng, of Roslyn, celebrate Christmas with a dance in the sand at Jones Beach, Dec. 25, 2021. ..

Charlie and Jessica Peng, of Roslyn, take a Christmas selfie at Jones Beach near Field 6, Dec. 25, 2021.