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Girls Soccer Preview: SWR may have gotten even stronger
Warning to Suffolk County Class A girls soccer teams: If you think Shoreham-Wading River was good last year, wait until you meet this year’s team. The county champions lost only two players —...
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Boys Soccer: A humbling start for Riverhead
Five days prior to the first bell of the school year, there already were some tough lessons learned by the Riverhead High School boys soccer team on Friday morning. During the Blue Waves’...
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Police dog killed during collision, officers injured after suspect flees DWI...
A driver who sped through a DWI checkpoint struck a Riverhead Town police officer and then led police on a chase, resulting in a K-9 unit crashing and the dog in the vehicle being killed, according to...
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Girls Volleyball Preview: Horton is back in blue
Rose Horton has traded in Bishop McGann-Mercy green for Riverhead blue, and now the Blue Waves’ new girls volleyball coach has her work cut out for her. The challenge stands in the form of taking over...
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The Work We Do: Melody Calcano, Maximum Motorsports
Hi, my name is Melody Calcano. I work for Maximum Motorsports as their finance manager. I have been with Maximum Motorsports for about three and a half years now. Before I came into finance I was in...
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Girls Tennis: Riverhead-SWR match is hot stuff
The heat is on. As in the heat of a new high school girls tennis season. But there was also actual heat on Tuesday. Plenty of it. Both Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River tried to beat the stifling...
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Boys Soccer Preview: Coach likes SWR’s soccer smarts
Shoreham Wading-River boys soccer head coach Russ Mitchinson certainly has his work cut out for him early on this season. The Wildcats graduated 11 players. Only four seniors return to the Suffolk...
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Football Preview: Wildcats are still aiming high
Players change, coaches change. Standards don’t. That’s the clear message coming out of the Shoreham-Wading River High School football team’s preseason training camp. Standards remain high. The...
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Riverhead youth featured in Nike’s controversial Colin Kaepernick ad
A Riverhead Middle School student who made highlight reels in 2016 for an improbable one-handed catch in a PAL football game is featured in Nike’s upcoming commercial with controversial NFL...
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Football: Wild start to the 2018 season for Riverhead
The bleachers on the home side of Nick DeCillis Field at Newfield High School began to thin out as the big crowd at Friday night’s Division II season opener headed toward the exits. On the visitor’s...
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Shawn Hirst begins new role as executive director of East End Arts
Shawn Hirst replaces Pat Snyder as executive director of East End Arts. (Credit: Nicole Smith) East End Arts has welcomed a new executive director. Shawn Hirst, 37, started Aug. 6 and spent the month...
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Girls Tennis Preview: SWR takes League VII challenge
Shoreham-Wading River has a proud history in girls tennis. Eleven league championships, four Suffolk County team finalists. Individually, the Wildcats have produced four county champions and 13...
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Girls Soccer: Samba’s a long way off for Riverhead
The Riverhead High School girls soccer team isn’t playing the stylish samba soccer made famous by Brazilian teams, nor are they playing the “Samba” soccer their first-year head coach, Samba Traore,...
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Boys Cross-Country Preview: Krause, Zelin set pace for SWR
Shoreham-Wading River High School’s boys cross-country team has two returning state meet runners, but after that the Wildcats have question marks. That could have coach Bob Szymanski feeling a bit...
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As hurricane approached N.C., couple scrambled to relocate wedding to North Fork
Kerriann Otaño and her fiancé, Dane Suarez, spent two years planning every detail of their perfect wedding. Ms. Otaño would walk down a long walkway from the house they rented for their bridal party...
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Field Hockey: Graziano raises her game by going low
Just how far the Riverhead High School field hockey team goes this year may very well depend on how low the Blue Waves can go. Every now and then Angie Graziano’s coaches remind her to get low and...
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Girls Cross-Country Preview: Waves strong with Yakaboski, Kielbasa
Unlike most years when the goal for Long Island’s top high school cross-country runners is to go upstate, the aim this year is to remain downstate, on the island. The eyes of the New York State...
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Football: Secondary is Riverhead’s primary problem
It wasn’t a case of insult added to injury so much as injury contributing to insult. The injury came when Riverhead’s David Squires left the ground in an attempt to catch a pass. Moving gingerly, the...
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Girls Volleyball: League II isn’t easy on Riverhead
The Riverhead High School girls volleyball team may not be quite ready yet to measure its progress by wins and losses, but that long-awaited win on Friday sure felt good. “It’s our first win in my...
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Golf-cart transportation service Qwik Ride eyes expansion into Riverhead
Since launching in Patchogue in May, the owners of Qwik Ride say they’ve given more than 9,000 rides in the downtown area. Word spread quickly that the free golf-cart transportation service, similar...
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