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Yeah, we, you know, going into the season, this was a little unexpected.

Of course, these two coaches were talking about Southampton boys soccer varsity head coach Dave Riley and Hampton Bays varsity girls volleyball head coach Andy Fotopoulos.

They really don't like to talk about themselves too much.

So it wasn't too surprising.

But, you know, when I found out, I was like, oh, OK, this this is cool.

But so Dave is Riley, you know, won his 200th career victory a couple weeks ago in a very dramatic 4-3 double overtime victory over rival San Mariches.

And, you know, and then a week prior to that, Andy Fotopoulos with Hampton Bays Girls Volleyball had won his 400th career game at Amityville.

And, you know, which was, you know, which is a huge one as well.

That's Speonk, Westhampton, and Bridgehampton.

A fourth in Hampton Bays includes parking along Good Ground Road and is expected to be subject to a joint agreement involving MTA property next year.

The improvements will be site-specific, according to town officials, and include increased capacity along with new signs, striping, repaving, and drainage.

The goal is to continue supporting the increased use of the South Fork Commuter Connection created in twenty nineteen.

So we're still seeing that.

Well, fun story, you guys actually came into the school, and you do a great presentation for the elementary school kids, and so these adorable bunnies came into the Hampton Bays School, and now I have a bunny.

Yeah.

It was so darn cute.

we go to the end of the year, the giving season.

So those also we try to emphasize at that point are programs that we...

Have year-round whether that's our pet pantry Whether that's our rescue right here to help rescue animals within a community whether it's our TNR program We also have a furry friends fundraiser that we had a pilot program last year That was very successful at Hampton Bays, which we'd love to expand where kids Get to learn about homeless pets and about giving and service we come into they get to fundraise for us and and whoever fund raises the most gets a $5,000 scholarship or money toward their schooling, and the school gets $5,000.

So

Organizers are also hoping to build an on-ramp into election protection work.

The group's website says, quote, In Suffolk County, there are no Kings events scheduled for this coming Saturday in Hampton Bays, Lake Grove, Miller Place, Lindenhurst, Babylon, Patchogue, Port Jefferson Station, Riverhead, South Huntington, and the Tri-Hamlets of Mastic, Mastic Beach, and Shirley.

There's also no Kings events in New York City Saturday, which have drawn the region's and the nation's Most attendees, a core principle of the No Kings events nationwide is nonviolent action and no civil disobedience.

And participants are expected to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

There were also protests later in 2025 and earlier this year.

The Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has ridiculed No King's events as a hate America rally, to which I personally say LOL.

In other news, the town of Southampton has released the final draft of its master plan for the potential future redevelopment of its Jackson Avenue campus in Hampton Bays, which will start with the construction of a new justice court and police headquarters and then gradually evolve into the main hub for most town offices, including someday town hall itself.

Michael Wright reporting on 27East.com that the master plan, the subject of a public hearing at the town board meeting on November 10th, calls for the construction of interconnected justice court and police headquarters buildings at the southern end of the property.

Another Long Island Inn just earned a Michelin key.

After recently spotlighting Canoe Place Inn and Cottages in Hampton Bays for earning its first Michelin key, we're proud to share that, um, Bellport Inn has also been recognized by the Michelin Guide in 2026 hotel selection with a Michelin key.

Uh, located in the heart of Bellport Village, Bellport Inn is a really beautiful restored historic property that dates back to 1889.

It gives a boutique Long Island getaway, getaway feel and just steps from the village's restaurant, shops, and marina.

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Speaking of local lawsuits, after more than a year of legal tedium in a trio of court cases over the rights of the Shinnecock Nation to develop a gas station on its land in Hampton Bays, a Washington, D.C. judge last week ordered that the cases should at least be consolidated in the same New York court for the sake of convenience.

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made little logistical or legal sense.

Goree wrote, quote, will take on the role of interim chair.

The move comes as the nation, whose federally recognized tribal territory is adjacent west to Southampton Village, has faced challenges to its economic development plans in Hampton Bays.

New York State has filed multiple legal actions seeking to shut down its Sunrise Park.

highway digital billboards, a primary income source for the nation.

Sunrise Highway Digital Monuments.

I know that that is the verbiage preferred by the nation.

Both initiatives are on more than 80 acres of of indigenous land called Westwoods in Hampton Bays that was recognized as being federally protected in a U.S. Department of the Interior finding over a year ago.

Southampton Town and New York State have challenged that federal finding in court.

With my family, we'd visit that once every two or three years or so as an excursion we might do.

Oh, actually, and when I was a really young kid, I mean like apparently a year old or something, the lighthouse in Hampton Bays where my parents had a house and my family went back many generations in that town, there was a lighthouse on Shinnecock Bay.

And in 1948, the year of my being born, they dynamited it.

So my dad had taken me to that moment.