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Street Painting Festival in Riverhead Sunday
Every Memorial Day weekend for the past four years, Colleen Hewson has shown off her artistic skills at the East End Arts' Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival. At this year's festival, which starts Sunday, Ms. Hewson's artwork will be prominently featured. The 17-year-old Syosset High School student created the artwork that's being used...
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Sister Margaret honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
It’s been 15 minutes since the North Fork Spanish Apostolate’s doors in Riverhead opened for the day and the waiting list to see Sister Margaret Smyth is already growing. On this Tuesday morning, she’s seated behind her wooden desk, surrounded by homemade paintings, trinkets and gifts received from those she’s helped....
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Sex offender trailers in Riverside to close Memorial Day weekend
The Suffolk County trailers in Riverside and Westhampton that housed homeless sex offenders for the past six years will be shut down by the end of Memorial Day weekend, government officials and civic leaders from Suffolk County, Riverhead and Southampton announced Friday afternoon. "It may be Memorial Day, but it feels...
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Former school board rivals to face off in Democratic primary
After being passed over by the Rivehead Democratic Committee in her bid for a supervisor nomination Thursday night, Riverhead school board president Ann Cotten-DeGrasse said she will be running a primary against nominee Angela DeVito. And she likes her chances. Ms. Cotten-DeGrasse, a former Riverhead School District teacher and union leader, is...
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Police: She tried to use someone else’s debit card
Riverhead Town police are asking for help in locating a woman who attempted to use someone else's debit card at a South Fork supermarket in October. The suspect, pictured above, was captured on surveillance video about 8 p.m. on Oct.15 trying to use the card at the Wild by Nature store...
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‘Swim at your own risk’ month in the Sound
People will be swimming at their own risk at Riverhead Town’s three Long Island Sound beaches until the end of June, according to recreation department superintendent Ray Coyne, who said the move is being done in part because of Hurricane Sandy damage, and to save money. “Those beaches are not ready...
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Sean Walter, Angela DeVito receive supervisor nominations; full slates announced
It's Sean Walter vs. Angela DeVito for Riverhead Town Supervisor. The incumbent Republican Mr. Walter and the Democrat and former school board president Ms. Devito received the nominations of their respective parties Thursday night. Despite having twice won elections for Town Supervisor, Mr. Walter wasn't a guaranteed nominee. Assessor Mason Haas and...
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RECAP: Live reports from town nominating conventions
Riverhead Town Republicans and Democrats both hosted their nominating conventions in Polish Thursday night. Read a recap of our live reports below: ...
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GOP taps New Suffolk attorney for Assembly race; controversy over Riverhead Dems’ choice
More than two months after Dan Losquadro left office to run the Brookhaven Town Highway Department, local Republicans have finally identified their choice to replace him in the New York State Assembly. Anthony Palumbo, 42, an attorney from New Suffolk, has secured the GOP nomination, according to Suffolk County Republican chairman...
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Plan would see trees cut for grass in Calverton
Trees or grass? That’s a question Riverhead Town officials will have to wrestle with at the Enterprise Park at Calverton, according to Supervisor Sean Walter. The state Department of Environmental Conservation “potentially wants us to take back some of the early succession forest at EPCAL to create grasslands,” Mr. Walter told the...
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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
Times/Review Newsgroup unveiled today its northforker brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork. Northforker.com will be updated multiple times each day with information on the region’s wineries, farm products, hotels and restaurants, real estate, arts and music scenes, as well as outdoor and educational activities...
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Town Board hires expert to lure FAA to Calverton
The Riverhead Town Board heard opposition from the farm community to a proposed change to require stricter regulations on excavating land for agriculture during a public hearing tonight. Farmers argued that under state law, agricultural uses are exempt from requiring permits for excavating, but Supervisor Sean Walter contends that under current...
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GOP, Democrats fail to give Assembly nods
Suffolk’s Democrats and Republicans have both held nominating conventions, but neither party has decided who will run in November for the North Fork’s open State Assembly seat. The Suffolk GOP met last Tuesday in Holtsville, but held off on naming a candidate for the Second Assembly district. After the convention, Republican...
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Breaking down the Riverhead school vote
The Riverhead Central School District's budget proposal passed 1,520 to 1,252 on Tuesday. Though the voter turnout was about the same as last year's vote, the results were much closer than in 2012, when the budget passed by nearly 700 votes. Voters cast their ballots at four polling locations across the Riverhead...
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Tower charges dropped over mental health concerns
A Calverton man is no longer facing criminal charges for allegedly building an illegal tower out of the top of his Founders Path house, after he was found to be unable to defend himself in court Tuesday due to mental illness and is being sent to a psychiatric facility. Eugene Lafurno,...
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Recap: Falisi ousted from Riverhead board as budgets pass
Proposed 2013-14 spending plans for the Riverhead and Shoreham-Wading River school districts passed on Tuesday. Times/Review Newsgroup covered the results live from across the town and the North Fork. Click the blog box below to see what happened, as it happened. Rivehead's budget, which does not pierce the tax cap, passed 1,520 to 1,252. Riverhead...
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Cops: ‘Bored’ man fired air gun, scared motorist
One man's boredom led to his arrest Tuesday afternoon, after he pumped up an air rifle, pointed it from his parked SUV and fired it for fun a few hundred feet from the Suffolk County Center in Riverside, county sheriffs said. The man, who was not identified by police, was sitting...
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Bicyclist airlifted after Route 24 car crash
A man was airlifted to a local hospital Tuesday afternoon after being struck by a car while riding a bike on Route 24 in Flanders, Southampton Town police said. The accident happened about 3:30 p.m. near Cypress Avenue, a few hundred feet east of County Road 105, police said. The cyclist, who...


















