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Week in Review: Election Recap
A Good Night for Southold Democrats, Riverhead Supervisor Race Too Close to Call
Beth Young
November 09, 2025
Elections
A Good Night for Southold Democrats, Riverhead Supervisor Race Too Close to Call
Southold Democrats had a very good night Tuesday, taking home at least one Town Board seat, a Fishers Island Town Justice/Council seat and potentially a second town board seat — candidate Alexa Suess was up by 81 votes over Republican Chris Talbot. Democratic Riverhead Town Supervisor candidate Jerry Halpin was up six votes over incumbent Tim Hubbard, and this race has not yet been called. Incumbent Shelter Island Town Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams has won a commanding victory, with 63.13 percent of the vote against Town Councilman Gordon Gooding and Suffolk County Democrats have called the Suffolk County Legislature's First Legislative District race for Democrat Greg Doroski.
 Pictured Above: At the Hampton Bays Firehouse early Wednesday.  About 100 people attended a rally Friday across the street from the Hampton Bays Firehouse. | Federal Agents Scour Hamptons Towns, Detaining At Least SixAt about 7 a.m. Wednesday the immigration advocacy group OLA of Eastern Long Island began receiving reports of a large group of vehicles belonging to federal agents congregating in the parking lot behind the Hampton Bays Fire Department’s Montauk Highway headquarters, setting off a morning-long series of raids that OLA says led to the detention of at least four people in Hampton Bays and two in Westhampton. |
The Business Accelerator
 Hold Fast Fund co-founder Ian Wile and Farmers Market Manager Paul Livesey in the Hold Fast Studio Indoor Farmers Market to Inaugurate New Community Business SpaceThe Greenport Farmers Market, which just finished its second season in Mitchell Park, will have a new home for the holiday season in a Main Street space that will soon be a community hub of commerce. |  Travis Zurawski and Laura Klahre with their new collaboration at Panoramica. Gazoz Collaboration is a Cosmic JamHave you ever had a gazoz? This is not a Dr. Suess question but it is a family-friendly one. Down at Panoramica in Peconic, thanks to a new collaboration with jam-maker and pollinator aficionado Laura Klahre, this fizzy drink sweetened with a brand new flavor of jam is taking off on Sunday, Nov. 9… |
Climate Local Now
A Mini Forest? What on Earth?
A Miawaki Mini Forest planted at the Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts in 2024. | Biodiversity for a Livable Climate photo
by Mark Haubner
This column is presenting a new-to-us concept, something that has taken off in thousands of places around the world already; come join us in catching up!
A book by Evan Pritchard (Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York: Native American Prophecy & European Discovery, 1609) describes the view of Long Island from a near-shore sailing trip at one point: the woodlands covered the land up to all of the beaches and shores for the entire trip.
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On the Waterfront
This Week on the East End
 The dredge arrives in Montauk Dredging Project Begins at Montauk Harbor InletThe suction dredge Oyster Bay and its supporting equipment have arrived in Montauk, marking the start of active mobilization of a highly anticipate Army Corps of Engineers dredging of the inlet to Montauk Harbor, announced East Hampton Town on Monday. |  Open grate decking on Orient Harbor Southold Wetland Code Updates Get The Green LightThe Southold Town Board on Wednesday approved a series of changes to its wetlands code in a five to one vote. The proposed changes were pitched by the Southold Town Trustees, who oversee development near the town’s shorelines, earlier this summer, in response to thorny issues that have arisen during its processing of permits for structures within 100 feet of wetlands. |
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Environment
Students are Carrying the Message of ReWild
Mattituck Botany Club President Cindy Melgar plants seedlings in the new ReWild garden at her school.
From Montauk to Mattituck and many places in between, the message of ReWilding is resonating with students on the East End.
The ReWild movement — in which humans work to return land to its natural state, in the hopes that ecological balance will ensue — is taking off all over the world.
Housing
New Apartments Proposed on the North Fork
The Handy Pantry in Mattituck, with its adjacent laundromat and barber shop, has been the local place to go for a late night snack or an early morning coffee for more than a generation. And the property it sits on could also soon be a place to live.
UPCOMING EVENTS
 Wednesday, Nov. 12 “Surplus Food Finds A Home Here” in Cutchogue The Cutchogue Civic Association will host a panel discussion around the issue of food surplus, food rescue and food insecurity on the East End on Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Free Library. |  Thursday, Nov. 13 Fahrenheit 451 Opens at Bay Street Bay Street Theater co-founder Stephen Hamilton is directing the Ray Bradbury classic “Fahrenheit 451” at Bay Street Nov. 13 through 30. |  Friday, Nov. 14 Rites of Spring Presents “Rhythms of the Terroir” When you pair an Italian vocalist and horn player with a Brazilian rhythm section, the result is something as magical as it is worldly. |
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Words
“I find comfort in contemplating the sunflowers.” — Vincent Van Gogh
See you next Sunday,
Beth
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