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May 17, 2012
Business
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Photo Contest, Final Day: This logo is on the sign for which local restaurant?
Want to win a free meal at a local restaurant courtesy of riverheadnewsreview.com? Here's your chance. This week, we featured close-up photographs of Riverhead area restaurants each day. All you have to do for a shot at winning is to correctly identify all five eateries in a comment at the bottom...
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Photo Contest, Day Four: This lamp is hanging in which local restaurant?
Want to win a free meal at a local restaurant courtesy of riverheadnewsreview.com? Here's your chance. This week, we're featuring close-up photographs of Riverhead restaurants each day. All you have to do for a shot at winning is to correctly identify all five eateries in a comment at the bottom of...
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Photo Contest, Day Three: This sign is in front of which local restaurant?
Want to win a free meal at a local restaurant courtesy of riverheadnewsreview.com? Here's your chance. This week, we're featuring close-up photographs of Riverhead restaurants each day. All you have to do for a shot at winning is to correctly identify all five eateries in a comment at the bottom of...
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Photo Contest, Day Two: Can you name this restaurant?
Want to win a free meal at a local restaurant courtesy of riverheadnewsreview.com? Here's your chance. This week, we're featuring close-up photographs of Riverhead restaurants each day. All you have to do for a shot at winning is to correctly identify all five eateries in a comment at the bottom of...
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Contest: Can you name this Riverhead restaurant?
Want to win a free meal at a local restaurant courtesy of riverheadnewsreview.com? Here's your chance. Over the next five days, we'll feature a close-up photograph of a Riverhead restaurant. All you have to do for a shot at winning is to correctly identify all five eateries in a comment at...
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New Route 58 Walmart developers apply for building permits
The developers of a new Walmart proposed for the western end of Route 58, across from Tanger Outlets, have applied for building permits, although they had not received them as of yesterday, Wednesday. The proposed 170,000-square-foot Walmart was approved by the Town Board in in 2007. But that approval was challenged...
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Bizbeat: Riverhead Chamber to host ‘Dealmakers Tailgate’
Local businesses are invited to participate in the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce’s collaborative marketing event, ‘The Dealmakers Tailgate Convention,’ on Wednesday, May 16, at Hotel Indigo in Riverhead. Between 4 and 7 p.m., participants will be assigned spaces in the hotel’s back parking lot and work out of their car...
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Baiting Hollow distillery produces LI’s first whisky
The makers of Long Island’s first vodka have expanded their offerings, moving beyond potato-based spirits to embrace barley. LiV, Long Island’s first and only distillery, just released a 150-case micro batch of the region’s first and only locally produced single-malt whiskey, a 95 proof spirit. “It’s brand-spanking-new,” said LiV owner Richard Stabile....
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84 Lumber in Riverhead plans to close its doors
The 84 Lumber location on West Main Street in Riverhead will soon close its doors, company officials said. The location has been merging workers and inventory with the Patchogue location since December, said Patchogue manager and Riverhead location acting manager Don Garton. The larger Patchogue location has more than enough space to...
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Riverhead Town mulls permits for filming movies
The Riverhead Town Board is considering a new law to require people filming in the town to obtain a permit that would require a $500 application fee, $100 per day of filming and other fees. The hearing on the proposed law is scheduled for May 16 at 7:20 p.m. The proposed law’s...
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Gershow Recycling buys family-run junkyard in Riverhead
Gershow Recycling will be coming to Riverhead soon, as the Medford-based recycling company is buying Fred J. Gallo Used Auto Parts on Hubbard Avenue and plans to continue that same use. Tom Gallo Jr., one owner of the Gallo business, confirmed that the 3.5-acre property is being sold to Gershow, one...
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Bookstore coming to downtown Riverhead this fall
Downtown Riverhead has yet to land a movie theater, but it's on track to get a bookstore soon. Wendy Yusin of Riverhead is buying the old Suffolk Trust building, located between Star Confectionery and the Culinary Arts School, and hopes to open a bookstore there in September. "I think it's going to be...
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Riverhead Best Buy not among 50 stores slated for closure
The Best Buy store in Riverhead Centre on Route 58 is not among the 50 stores slated for closure nationwide by the Minnesota-based electronics chain. The company, which reported a fourth-quarter loss of $1.7 billion, announced on March 28 that it would close 50 of its "big box" stores nationwide, while...
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Tex-Mex joint set to open in downtown Riverhead
About 10 years ago, restaurant owner Ken Loo began visiting nearby Spanish grocery stores. He would buy fresh ingredients to cook up tacos inside the kitchen at his West Main Street restaurant, Hy-Ting. Now, the downtown Riverhead restaurateur is set to open his own Tex-Mex restaurant on East Main Street to...
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‘Bigfoot’ baler now assisting farm and marina recycling efforts
Bigfoot is not only real, he lives in Suffolk County and he’s really into recycling. The Bigfoot 400, a plastic baler with an automatic feed that can suck plastic off greenhouses and shrink-wrapped boats, recently made its debut at the North Fork Nursery in Jamesport. One of only four BF-400s in the...
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L.I. Farm Bureau director gives Chamber update on status of industry
Buy local. That simple two-word phrase has become a battle cry aimed at consumers during the recession, but this time the advice went out to business owners themselves. Long Island Farm Bureau executive director Joe Gergela said buying local produce is the best way for area businesses to support a farming economy...
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Parisians’ vacation yields unique shop in Aquebogue
Many North Fork residents head to Paris for a vacation. For former Parisian real estate agents Matthieu and Laure Chatin, the story was reversed. The French couple and their children came to the North Fork in 2008 for a vacation after neighbors recommended the trip. They said they fell in love...
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BookHampton opens North Fork store in Mattituck
BookHampton owner Charlene Spector has been eyeing the former Rudy’s coffeehouse at the corner of Route 25 and Love Lane in Mattituck for five years, believing it was the perfect spot for her BookHampton chain, which has had three South Fork stores for many years, to open a North Fork...
