By Mike White 🇺🇸 Oct. 6, 2026

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1. Long Island metalhead beats out 700 singers to become Quiet Riot’s new frontman

🎸 When iconic heavy metal band Quiet Riot recently announced they had found their new lead singer, a 23-year-old metalhead from North Massapequa, the island’s rock world was set abuzz.

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2. Tick problem closes Kings Park middle school fields, cancels practices

🚫⚽ A surge in ticks at William T. Rogers Middle School has forced students off the grass and led to several canceled athletic practices as district officials work to get the parasite problem under control.

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3. Andrew Cuomo drops $9.6 million on Hamptons waterfront compound

🏄🏻‍♂️ Cuomo dropped $9.6 million for Seatuck Lodge in Remsenburg, a historic bayfront compound that comes with a private beach, a dock, a boathouse, a guest house, a pool, a tennis court and a restored windmill.

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Food & Drink

🇮🇹 Mangia mobile! Uncle Giuseppe’s takes its Italian eats on the road​

🍽️ The James Garden City launches lunch service with $39 executive menu

🍔 Burgerology is coming back to Patchogue. Here’s what’s new

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How a West Coast drifter from L.I. built a brunch empire with Toast

Terence Scarlatos always had a George Bailey energy to him, an inner restlessness. A younger Scarlatos was never truly happy unless he was shaking the dust off some crummy little town.

“I became a moveomaniac,” he said. Then he founded Toast.

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