At Riverhead Middle School, a program to pair kids with mentors
In an effort to improve relations between students and adults, one Riverhead administrator is introducing a mentoring program to her school. Riverhead Middle School principal Andrea Pekar said she...
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Boys Basketball Preview: Given time, Wildcats will jell, said coach
Shoreham-Wading River boys basketball coach Kevin Culhane recently saw an Instagram post in which a coach listed all the Suffolk County League V and VI teams, with the notation, “Everybody is zero and...
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Ulster Savings Bank in Riverhead discriminated, lawsuit says
An investigation by a civil rights organization revealed discriminatory lending practices by Ulster Savings Bank, an upstate company that has an office in Riverhead, according to a lawsuit filed last...
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Girls Basketball Preview: Zajac leads a deep SWR team
Only five basketball players can play on the court at a time for a team. The Shoreham-Wading River High School girls team has many more capable players than that. The Wildcats are deep. That means...
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Downtown Riverhead project, Peconic Crossing, gets $350K from county
The developers of Peconic Crossing, a 45-unit affordable apartment project proposed for West Main Street in Riverhead, will receive $350,000 from Suffolk County to pay for infrastructure improvements...
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Developer, town agree on 10-foot wall
The proposed sound wall between Brixmor Property Group’s 120,000-square-foot shopping center on Route 58 and the residents of the Millbrook Community now appears to be shrinking from 12 feet to 10. At...
View ArticlePeconic Pediatrics in Riverhead opens county’s first milk bank
Riverhead is now home to Suffolk County’s first-ever depot that will supply donated breast milk for newborns around the state. Peconic Pediatrics on Commerce Drive will be a collection site for the New...
View ArticleBoys Basketball: Riverhead faces daunting challenge in opener
Only 44 seconds into the Riverhead boys basketball season opener against Bellport Saturday, coach John Rossetti was forced to call a timeout. The young Blues Waves experienced trouble in-bounding the...
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Head Start in Riverhead receives new books to promote early literacy
Riverhead Free Library employees dropped off 78 bags of children’s books at the Riverhead Head Start last week. The books, which will be shared by all five of Head Start’s classes, were donated by...
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Wrestling Preview: Familiar name leads Riverhead
It had been six years between county champions for Riverhead when Ed Matyka pulled off an improbable comeback in the Section XI Championships in February 2015. Matyka, then a senior, went on to place...
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Riverhead field hockey players honored at awards dinner
Seven Riverhead field hockey players were honored at the Suffolk County Field Hockey Coaches Association dinner Tuesday at Villa Lombardi’s in Holbrook. Goalkeeper Grace Dow and midfielder Kim Ligon...
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Fire district votes, commissioner elections set for Tuesday
People in fire districts throughout New York State will head to the polls Tuesday, Dec. 13, to vote on fire commissioner elections — and in some cases, special propositions specific to their...
View ArticleSantas party the cold away at Santacon 2016
A cold wintery day didn’t stop a cadre of Santas from storming downtown Riverhead for the third annual Santacon Pub Crawl. The event, which started off slow but picked up steam as the sun set and the...
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Cops: Man claiming to have gun robs Tanger Outlets store
Riverhead Town police are investigating a robbery that took place Monday morning at the Guess clothing store at Tanger Outlets. The suspect who confronted two employees who were opening the store...
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Police offer reward in fatal hit-and-run crash in Riverhead
Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Riverhead Town police detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify the driver and vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Riverhead last month....
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Fringe Festival featuring poets, playwrights coming to Riverhead
Clear your schedules, theater lovers, because the Fringe Festival is coming to Riverhead this summer. The international festival will last 10 days and feature never-before-seen plays, poetry readings,...
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Cops: Pregnant woman, 4-year-old son ejected in Roanoke Avenue crash
A 4-year-old boy and his pregnant mother were ejected from a taxi durig a Roanoke Avenue crash in Riverhead Tuesday evening, town police said. The taxi driver was headed south on Roanoke Avenue with...
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Girls Basketball: Playoff-like atmosphere as Blue Waves fall in OT
The calendar might have said December, but the atmosphere inside the Riverhead High School gymnasium on Monday night was February — as in playoff intensity. Even though it was a non-league game, the...
View ArticleWinning lottery ticket worth $63K sold in Riverhead
One lucky Bapa Card and Gift customer will be going home with a big pay day. According to the New York Lottery, one ticket matching all five numbers called during Take 5 Tuesday night — 1, 3, 7, 25 and...
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Boys Track and Field Preview: Cunha eyes big things this season
It would be asking an awful lot for any athlete to match the kind of season Luke Coulter compiled last year for Riverhead. The large school county champion in the 600-meter and 3,200, Coulter...
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