Boys Winter Track: Confort takes comfort in his hurdling progress
It would have been entirely understandable if Angelo Confort didn’t see much of a future for himself as a hurdler the first time he tried hurdling when he was in seventh grade. The Riverhead High...
View ArticleBoys Winter Track: Riverhead hurdler gets big-arena experience
This was anything but a breeze. One can imagine Angelo Confort’s reaction when for the first time ever he entered the packed arena at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex’s state-of-the-art,...
View ArticleWrestling: Squires pins down state folkstyle championship
Wrestling wasn’t on Kelsey Squires’ radar screen until she entered eighth grade and had a few friends on the Riverhead Middle School wrestling team. One of those wrestling friends was another girl,...
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Baseball: After one season with St. Anthony’s, Riverhead catcher returns home
Player transfers giveth and taketh. This time, Riverhead receiveth. After the proposed Riverhead budget for the 2020-21 school year was twice defeated at the polls and it looked as if the Blue Waves...
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Girls Lacrosse: Blue Waves on a mission to ‘prove them wrong’
At the start of each season, Riverhead girls lacrosse coach Lindsay Rella allows the seniors to choose the message written across the back of their warm-up shirts, whether it’s a quote or word of...
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Boys Lacrosse: Dominant second quarter propels Mattituck past Riverhead
The pandemic that struck in early spring of 2020 couldn’t have come at a worse time for the boys lacrosse programs in Mattituck and Riverhead. The Blue Waves in 2019 put together perhaps the best...
View ArticleFrustrated with traffic near gas station, residents ask town for solutions
More than 120 residents have signed a petition asking for traffic improvements at the BJ’s Wholesale gas station on the corner of Route 58 and Ostrander Avenue. The petition was initiated by...
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Baseball: 5-1 start is more necessity than luxury for Blue Waves
The Riverhead baseball team hasn’t had a start to a season like this in a long time. It surely predated Rob Maccone’s ascension as the team’s coach in 2010. As things stood Tuesday, Riverhead held a...
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‘The flames were too high;’ Police investigation sheds new light on how...
As the first 911 calls alerted the Riverhead Fire Department of smoke in the area of East Second Street on the night of Nov. 16, officer Anthony Chiaramonte of the Riverhead Town Police Department...
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Grand vision for Riverhead’s Town Square outlined as J. Petrocelli...
An 80-room boutique hotel, retail shops, a restaurant with a rooftop bar, a firehouse museum, outdoor amphitheater and open space for interactive games like giant chess, checkers, bocce and cornhole....
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Softball: Blue Waves have combo of youth, talent
It was a loss, of all things, that opened Chris Accardi’s eyes to the potential his Riverhead softball team had. The 6-1 defeat to Sachem North came in the second game of the season, “and they were...
View ArticleRiverhead’s Plant Connection among first to receive license to grow adult...
Of New York State’s first 52 licenses issued for adult recreational cannabis cultivation, one will be going to a North Fork business. Plant Connection, a nursery on Sound Avenue in Riverhead, was one...
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Softball: With McKay’s pitching, one hit’s enough for Riverhead
Sometimes one hit is enough. Of course, in those instances, it’s helpful to have someone like Riverhead’s Bree McKay in the pitching circle. Whether that would be the case was a question mark until...
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Girls Lacrosse: Blue Waves have Malanga’s back
When tragedy struck Ava Malanga’s family last year, her lacrosse family was there for her. It was on May 24, 2021, when Malanga’s mother, Tara, died at the age of 49. She had been battling brain...
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Baseball: Riverhead’s playoff window is closing
So, that’s what playing baseball in a hurricane is like. Well, it wasn’t exactly a hurricane, but the wind was whipping something nasty Thursday. On a day when winds in Middle Island ranged from 15-25...
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Boys Lacrosse: Sumwalt’s goal with 1.2 seconds left brings Riverhead Senior...
Many youngsters have played that imaginary game in their backyard. As the clock winds down, the countdown begins: “Five, four, three, two, one.” And then comes that last-second, game-winning shot....
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Historic marker unveiled, commemorating night baseball legend Satchel Paige...
A forgotten piece of Riverhead history has been nailed down and marked. Sometimes history can be found in the darnedest places — like your own backyard. That was the case for Riverhead when Fabio...
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Softball: North Babylon pitcher blanks Riverhead in two-hitter
The astounding catch centerfielder Megan McKay made earlier this year is still fresh in Chris Accardi’s mind. Riverhead’s softball coach isn’t likely to forget it any time soon, either. It came in a...
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Riverhead observes Memorial Day with annual parade, ceremonies: Photos
Riverhead Town residents paid tribute to the nation’s fallen service members Monday during the annual Memorial Day parade and ceremonies in downtown Riverhead. Members of the Riverhead High School...
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Riverhead CAP’s Say No to Drugs March returns with Butterfly Effect Project...
Tijuana Fulford swore to herself in just fourth grade that she would never try drugs after participating in the Riverhead Community Awareness Program’s prevention program, Too Good for Drugs. Years...
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