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Eagles release Riverhead's Miguel Maysonet
May 20, 2013
Education
Voters' Guide: Riverhead Central School District
May 20, 2013
Voters' Guide: Shoreham-Wading River schools
May 20, 2013
Business
Hyatt Place staffers help clean up downtown
May 13, 2013
New vermouth, Atsby, made in Mattituck
May 13, 2013
Community
Laurel woman's novel published posthumously
May 19, 2013
Photos: Hallockville's Fleece and Fiber Fair
May 19, 2013
Hyatt Place staffers help clean up downtown
May 13, 2013
Obituaries
Christine Vega
May 15, 2013
Oleta Marie Melissari
May 14, 2013
Charles H. Bartlett Jr.
May 14, 2013
Real Estate
North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight
May 20, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 10, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
May 2, 2013
News
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Update: Man taken into custody after shooting, K9 search
Update, 11:45 p.m.: Police brought a man into custody shortly before 11:30 p.m. He was removed from a house on Osborn Avenue, following a K9 search performed by police officers from Riverhead and New York State. Police had been at the scene on Osborn for more than two hours, frequently shining...
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Voters’ Guide: Riverhead Central School District
The Riverhead School District budget vote will take place Tuesday, May 21, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at these local polling locations: Aquebogue Elementary School, Phillips Avenue Elementary School, Riley Avenue Elementary School and the high school for Roanoke Avenue Elementary School residents, due to construction. Residents vote at...
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Voters’ Guide: Shoreham-Wading River schools
The Shoreham-Wading River School District budget vote will take place between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. RESERVES TO STAVE OFF PROGRAM CUTS Residents in the Shoreham-Wading River School District will vote Tuesday on a $66.1 million proposed school budget for 2013-14 that represents a spending increase of...
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Riverhead principal cleared in civil rights case
A federal jury has rejected a former Riverhead Middle School student's claims that he was illegally searched by the school's principal in 2007, saying the student and his mother failed to prove the search ever occurred. The jury deliberated for three hours in U.S. Eastern District Court Monday before reaching a...
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Thieves swipe Northampton sign from Lake Avenue
A sign welcoming people to Northampton on the west side of Lake Avenue has been stolen. The sign theft was reported on Sunday, May 12 , and is believed to have taken place sometime between May 9 and May 12, Southampton Town police said. [Related: Northampton, has it ever truly existed?] It was...
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Eagles release Riverhead’s Miguel Maysonet
Miguel Maysonet's run with the Philadelphia Eagles is over. The Riverhead native was released by the team Monday morning, according to the Eagles' website. CSNPhilly.com had previously reported his imminent release. Maysonet's days in Philadelphia appeared numbered after the Eagles signed former Dallas Cowboys running back Felix Jones last week. That move all...
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North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight
Landscapers, nursery owners and plant scientists are on the lookout for a new fungus that attacks one of Long Island’s most popular plants: the boxwood. The boxwood blight has yet to have a significant impact on Long Island, and both the landscaping and research communities are working hard to keep it...
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Laurel woman’s novel published posthumously
Suspense, intrigue, a dreadful decision that turns a small town upside down; a first novel by local author Alix Ehlers, “A Power in the Blood,” has all the makings of a best seller, but it almost never saw the light of day. Now, thanks to her family, the book is finally...
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Wading River scout camp getting new $1.9 million mess hall
More than 1,000 people attended a groundbreaking ceremony in Wading River Saturday for a new dining hall at the Schiff Scout Reservation on Wading River Manor Road. The new facility will replace a building lost during a 2011 fire at the Boy Scout camp. "Once completed, this beautiful, year-round facility will serve...
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‘Environmental Champions’ honor for fish passage
The late Bob Conklin of Flanders and Jim Miller of Southold were honored as "Environmental Champions" by the North Fork Environmental Council on Thursday for their work establishing a fish passage at Grangebel Park. The rock passage allows alewives and other fish to migrate from fresh to salt water, where they...
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Local farmers say they’re not the one with issues
North Fork farmers are facing new government regulations they say will lead to too much paperwork — only to fix a problem that exists elsewhere in the U.S. The new regulations, part of the federal government’s Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2011, aim to protect U.S. consumers from contaminated food...
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Sisters building a giant interactive music box
Like many young girls, Cutchogue sisters Kelly and Ashley Goeller had a music box in their younger days. Tiny and crafted from metal, it played the theme song from “The Pink Panther.” Little did the Goeller girls know that as adults they and a friend would build a music box that...
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Photos: Hundreds turn out for Demitri Hampton Scholarship fundraiser
More than 200 people packed into Robert Ludlam Park in Riverside Saturday afternoon to help raise funds for the college scholarship created in memory of a young Flanders man who was killed in a home invasion earlier this year. The DQH Memorial Picnic benefited the DQH Scholarship Fund, and included a...
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Riverhead student honored for human rights work
A Riverhead High School senior was honored for his human rights efforts in Suffolk County Thursday night in Holtsville. Jesse Hopkins won the Human Rights Award for Making a Difference in Education from the Suffolk County Human Rights Commission, a government organization that works to eliminate bias and discrimination in the...
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East Enders go for world record in the name of boating safety
Ready, set, wear it! East Enders Saturday will attempt to break a world record for the most life jackets worn at one time. Strong’s Marine in Mattituck will host the event to kick off National Safe Boating Week, which runs from May 18 though 24. The annual Ready, Set, Wear It...
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Sandy to blame for white pine trees changing color
Spring is in full bloom, and the region’s grasses and hardwoods are greening up accordingly. But some pine trees are not, and experts say it’s due to the salt carried inland during Sandy. White pines, indigenous trees popular in landscaping across the North Fork and all Long Island, are still showing...
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Update: Police identify Selden man killed in Wading River crash
Riverhead Town police have identified a 62-year-old Selden man as the person killed in a Wading River car crash that shut Route 25A early Friday, authorities said. Daniel Kiernan was driving east on Route 25A in a 1986 Chevrolet pickup near the Dunkin' Donuts about 6:20 a.m. when he swerved into the...
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Federal judge tosses most charges against Riverhead schools
Only one defendant accused in a civil rights and privacy lawsuit over an alleged illegal search in Riverhead Middle School in 2007 is still facing charges after a federal judge threw out most of the case Thursday. Judge Arthur Spatt made his decision to toss all but one of 10 charges...
