Members of the Hampton Bays Middle School National Junior Honor Society hosted a third annual Volunteer Day of Service on June 7. During the day, students volunteered at various locations throughout the community to help in meaningful ways.

The NJHS members undertook a variety of community activities and service projects at the Southampton Animal Shelter, the Ecological Culture Initiative, the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center, the Hampton Bays Public Library and Ponquogue Beach, where they completed a cleanup in partnership with HUGS Inc. The students also painted a mural for their school's counseling office, wrote letters to senior citizens who receive Meals on Wheels, cultivated the school’s community garden, hosted a car wash fundraiser, made knot-tie fleece blankets for trauma victims, and organized and cleaned out a donation closet at their school.

The event was sponsored by the Hampton Bays Stop and Shop and Gemelli Gelato, who donated food and supplies for a barbecue luncheon.

Date Added: 6/19/2025

Hampton Bays Elementary School fourth graders learned about a variety of famous figures from history as part of their unit of study on biographies. The students each selected a famous person to research and then created presentations for their peers. As part of their presentations, they dressed up as the person they had researched. Among the notable individuals were Marco Polo, Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie.

Date Added: 6/18/2025

The Hampton Bays Middle School Life Skills Academy recently participated in a Celebration of the Arts. During the event, students’ artwork was displayed in an art show. All their art was created during the school year under the tutelage of art teacher Adrienne Gagliardi. The students also took part in a concert, where they performed nine songs on rhythm sticks, buckets, world drums and boom whackers with music teacher Carolanne Mazur.

Date Added: 6/17/2025

The spring sports season has wrapped up in the Hampton Bays School District with several high school athletes earning accolades. The district congratulates the following student-athletes:


Baseball

All-Academic Team

League 8 MVP & All-County: Seamus Smith

All-County: Nate Donahue

All-League: John Tedesco and Cole Wilson

Academic All-League: Nate Chekijian



Softball

All-Division, League 6 Rookie of the Year: Louise Brumagim

All-League: Shea Egan



Boys Tennis

All-Academic Team

All-Division: Ry Depalma and Jaime DePalms

Division 4 Sportsmanship Award: Kevin Saa Pacheco



Girls Lacrosse

All-County: Eden Brown and Taylor Meyers

All-Division: Fiona Haddock



Boys Lacrosse

All-County: Michael Single

All-Division: Brayden Talmage



Girls Track and Field

All-Sectional, qualified for state tournament: Asha Pensa-Johnson

All-League: Sofia Galvan and Eleanor Ramsay



Boys Track and Field

All-County: Daniel Pimenta

All-League: Ian Arias, Yordy Hernandez, Kevin Londono,

Daniel Ortiz, Daniel Pimenta and Oziah Wilson

 

Date Added: 6/13/2025

In continuing its mission to take history out of the textbooks by honoring local veterans, the Hampton Bays School District celebrated its 37th Flag Day on June 13 and paid tribute to the Honorable Patrick Gunn, Southampton Town justice. 

During the celebration, second graders spoke about Gunn’s life, read poems and sang patriotic songs, including Yankee Doodle and Fifty Nifty United States. Prior to the event, the students learned about the U.S. flag and its history.

Following the ceremony, a flag was raised to honor Gunn, who is the 82nd veteran to be honored by the district.

Gunn enlisted in the United States Navy shortly after high school and was assigned as an operations specialist to the Norfolk-based guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-37). During his tenure in the Navy, he received the Navy Expeditionary Medal, a Sea Service Ribbon and Commander Sixth Fleet commendation. He was honorably discharged in 1984 at the rank of petty officer second class (E-5).

After receiving his college degree in history and politics from LIU Southampton College and his MBA from LIU Post, he worked as an adjunct professor of business at Southampton College and attended Touro Law School in the evening. After receiving his law degree, Gunn worked as a Suffolk County assistant district attorney, East Hampton assistant town attorney, Quogue Village prosecutor and in his solo practice as a defense attorney. Currently, he is a judge in the Southampton Town Justice Court. 

Gunn lives in Hampton Bays with his wife, Jennifer, and has two grown children, Caelan and Ryan, as well as a granddaughter, Fiona. He is a life member of VFW Post 5350 in Westhampton Beach and the Hampton Bays American Legion, Hand-Aldrich Post 924.

Click here to read Gunn's full bio.