A family affair for the Halpin family at Riverhead Raceway
Stephen Halpin has been a track announcer at Riverhead Raceway on and off since 1992, but in all of his 22 years, Bandolero Bandits race earlier this season was “the biggest call he’s ever had,” he...
View ArticleCatching up with the Tuesday Crew
He just celebrated his 98th birthday, but still drives himself every Tuesday from Sag Harbor to the North Fork to be part of the latest construction project that the Tuesday Crew is working on. John...
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Remembering Preston Gamble: Six months after son’s death, a grieving mother...
Six months after Riverhead High School student Preston Gamble, 15, was fatally shot in Calverton, his mother said this week in an interview that investigators have a suspect — and she recounted...
View ArticleVail-Leavitt Music Hall back in the hands of Riverhead
A dispute between the Council for the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall and the Town of Riverhead has reached its conclusion after three decades. The council has ceded the over 140-year-old venue to Riverhead...
View ArticleHigh school sports round up: Oct. 21, 2023
Football Oct. 14: Brentwood 9, Riverhead 0 In a game impacted by heavy rains and poor field conditions, both Riverhead and Brentwood had a tough time moving the ball as defenses reigned supreme with...
View ArticleRiverhead and SWR gear up for playoffs
A handful of area high school teams are gunning for post-season glory. Here’s a look at what to expect. Riverhead Girls Volleyball (9-5 League I) Riverhead made the playoffs for the first time in a...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor: Anti-bias Task Force is anything but
RiverheadThank you to Riverhead police Sending many thanks to the Riverhead police for deftly handling the chaos that arrives every fall at Harbes Farm on Sound Avenue. We residents of the Maidstone...
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Riverhead’s Halloween Fest Moved to Oct. 28
No one’s gonna rain on this parade. Riverhead’s popular Halloween parade and coffin races have been postponed to Oct. 28, according to the Riverhead Business Improvement District, which sponsors the...
View Article‘Coffee with a Cop’ highlights police relations
For Coffee with a Cop Day, celebrated nationally the first Wednesday in October, the Riverhead Police Department dispatched officers to four eateries throughout the community. At Bean and Bagel Café...
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Blue Waves knock off Longwood, earn first-ever girls volleyball playoff win
Third time’s the charm. The Riverhead girls volleyball team made school history Monday afternoon, knocking out No. 8 seed Longwood in the first round of the Section XI “AAA” playoffs and winning their...
View ArticleRiverhead Town Board votes to scuttle controversial EPCAL project
On Tuesday, in an emergency executive session, Riverhead’s Town Board voted unanimously to cancel a 2018 contract to sell more than 1,600 acres at Enterprise Park to Calverton Aviation Technology —...
View ArticleDump truck driver attacks Riverhead ambulance rushing to medical emergency:...
A sleepy intersection on the edge of South Jamesport was the scene of a harrowing road rage incident on Thursday morning, in which a dump truck driver used a metal pipe to batter a Riverhead Volunteer...
View ArticleHow a year in Riverhead made a lasting impact on Neil Smith
Neil Smith was a 17-year-old resident of Adelaide, Australia, when his life took a very dramatic turn. Not entirely sure of his future plans, he applied to be a Rotary exchange student in America. “I...
View ArticleBlotters: Theft of meat from local farm in Aquebogue
Riverhead police reported the theft of $500 worth of meat from a local farm last Thursday. Officials say that at about 11:45 a.m., police responded to Goodale Farms at 250 Old Country Road in...
View ArticleNew town court dedicated to former justice Allen Smith
For years before his death in 2020, former Riverhead Town Justice Allen Smith lobbied hard for an expanded town justice center. “I did not know the esteemed, honorable Allen Smith as well as many of...
View ArticleElderly woman mugged in front of Riverhead ShopRite: police
Just after dark on Sunday evening, a 79-year-old woman was robbed of her purse in the parking lot in front of the ShopRite grocery store on Old Country Road, by an assailant who fled on foot but was...
View ArticleVolunteers urge awareness of litter issue in Riverhead
Jeanne Fallot, a member of Riverhead’s Anti-Litter Committee, takes frequent “litter-picking walks” around the neighborhood and she said it’s not uncommon for her walks to end with her carrying at...
View ArticleNew York Wildfire & Incident Management Academy trains future heroes
For wildland firefighters, the worst possible scenario is a sudden shift in wind direction that blows the fire they’re chasing back at them, moving too fast to outrun. In that do-or-die scenario they...
View ArticleScott’s Pointe water park holds ribbon cutting, set to open soon
“I’m a happy man today,” said Eric Scott at a well-attended ribbon cutting for Scott’s Pointe Saturday. Scott’s Pointe is the new name for Island Water Park, a 43-acre year-round facility that’s been...
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Coffin races a treat Riverhead Halloween Fest
Zombies, ghouls, ghosts and more lined Riverhead’s Griffing Avenue on Saturday to delight in the fifth annual coffin races, part of the town’s Halloween Festival. The festival, hosted by Riverhead’s...
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