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Sports
Girls Basketball: Youth movement in Riverhead
December 4, 2013
Blue Waves placed ball, and trust, in Moore’s hands
December 3, 2013
Minus two starters, Blue Waves can’t match Carey
November 29, 2013
Education
Culinary school hosts Chopped-like competition in Riverhead
December 6, 2013
Column: Parents are the key in Common Core fight
December 5, 2013
Letter: A school district preserving history
December 5, 2013
Business
Editorial: Shop locally this holiday season
December 6, 2013
7-Eleven could be coming to Flanders
December 6, 2013
The Riverhead Chamber's 2013 People of the Year
December 5, 2013
Community
Culinary school hosts Chopped-like competition in Riverhead
December 6, 2013
Photos: Big Duck in Flanders shines bright for holidays
December 6, 2013
Riverhead gives warm welcome home to Afghan war veteran
December 4, 2013
Obituaries
Rita T McMahon
December 6, 2013
Vincent J. Bonta
December 3, 2013
Eleanor Waldheim
December 3, 2013
Real Estate
Real Estate: Preparing your yard for the deep freeze
December 1, 2013
Real Estate Transfers
November 24, 2013
Real Estate: Invasive vine may have met its match
November 24, 2013
Opinion
Editorial: Shop locally this holiday season
December 6, 2013
Column: Parents are the key in Common Core fight
December 5, 2013
Letter: A school district preserving history
December 5, 2013
East End Arts Council
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With more tenants downtown, window decorating contest called off
It’s a lamentable story that locals are all too familiar with: downtown Riverhead was a veritable ghost town just a few years ago, with empty storefronts dotting large stretches of East Main Street. To help counteract the sense of glum particularly felt during the holidays, East End Arts launched a campaign...
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Here are the nominees for today’s Teeny Awards
The 11th Annual Teeny Awards will be held at Southold High School today. The awards, presented by East End Arts and sponsored by Suffolk County National Bank and Riverhead Toyota, showcase the best in local high school theater. The red carpet begins at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 at the door. Southold,...
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East End Challenge to award $1,000 prize
East End Arts in Riverhead announced last week details about its upcoming East End Challenge, a contest that encourages high school students to help preserve the environment. The East End Challenge involves having students explore connections between science and art for a new exhibit by the East End Seaport Museum and...
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BLOG RECAP: Town Board honors retirees, window contest winners
The Riverhead Town Board held its final regular meeting of 2012 Thursday Reporter Tim Gannon blogged live from the meeting. Click below to read a recap: Riverhead Town Board agenda 12-27-2012...
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East Ends Arts awards Riverhead student scholarship
East End Arts announced today it has awarded Riverhead High School student José Alvizures its annual Frances Ligon Memorial Scholarship. The 14-year old musician began studying the cello with Jeannie Woelker at the East End Arts School in 2008. During middle school, José was a member of the chamber orchestra and...
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Griffiths begins artist-in-residency at East End Arts
East End Arts has announced that a North Fork local has taken up the post as July and August's artist-in-residence. Gena Griffiths, a multi-media visual artist and arts educator, will create a three-figure sculpture during her two month stay at the Corwin Carriage House in Riverhead, representing the purity of a...
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Photos: Suffolk Theater marquee lighting headlines ‘A Night Out in Riverhead’
East End Arts and 12 downtown Riverhead restaurants hosted “A Night Out in Riverhead” Friday evening. The event featured dining discounts, a free concert, a gallery opening and art lecture. Athens Grill, Cliff’s Rendezvous, Dark Horse Restaurant, Digger O’Dell’s, Hyatt Place East End, Jerry & the Mermaid, Parto’s, Riverhead Diner &...
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Arts Council hosts folk show for ‘unschooled’ artists
Folk artists don’t ask, “What is art?” They just make it — in the form of everyday objects, some utilitarian, some pure whimsy. Weather vanes, signboards, painted enamelware, itinerant portraits, decoys, quilts and whirligigs are among the most familiar examples of American folk art. For the current Folk Art exhibition...
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Slide Show: Ninth annual Teeny Awards
Young thespians from across eastern Long Island took bows Sunday during the East End Arts Council’s ninth annual Teeny Awards at Riverhead High School. The red-carpet ceremony, which is modeled on Broadway’s Tony Awards, recognizes excellence in high school theater, evaluating students’ delivery, stage presence and...
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SLIDE SHOW: Riverhead’s Community Mosaic/Street Painting Festival
The streets of downtown Riverhead were transformed into a canvas for local artists Sunday as the East End Arts Council hosted the 15th annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival. At the heart of this celebration of the arts was the street painting, an art form dating back to...
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Community Mosaic/Street Painting Festival underway in Riverhead
Creativity will have a field day in downtown Riverhead as the East End Arts Council is hosting the 15th annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival today, Sunday. At the heart of this celebration of the arts will be street painting, an art form dating back to the 16th century. Painters 14...
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Riverhead, Mercy and SWR students earn Teeny nominations
The East End Arts Council has announced the nominees of the Ninth Annual Teeny Awards. The Teeny's recognize the best in student theater on the East End, with 15 schools having entered this year's contest. The winners will be announced during a ceremony at Westhampton Beach High School June...
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Slide Show: ‘East End Light’ show opens at EEAC
East End Arts Council debuted its juried, all media art show "East End Light" at its East Main Street gallery Friday. Gallery director Jane Kirkwood said there were 275 entries and 56 were chosen for the show by guest juror Glynis Berry, owner of Art Sites gallery on West Main Street...
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Town grant paves the way for East End Arts Council improvements
For years, jazz musicians, country western performers and classic rock bands would set up their instruments — electric amps and all — on a patch of grass behind the East End Arts Council building for summer concerts. But this year, bands performing in the shows, sponsored by the nonprofit Riverhead...
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Mountain drummer teaches music students how to rock
Upstairs in the carriage house behind the East End Arts Council in Riverhead, seven local high school students are becoming rock stars. On a recent cold Wednesday night, as other students began to arrive, guitarists Noah Gorman and Nick DiSalvo and bass player Jon Rizzo were up on a makeshift stage...
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Winterfest 2011: Inside the ‘out’ side of jazz
I didn’t really care for jazz. Or maybe I just didn’t get it. Could be as simple as that, but the truth is that I suppose it just kind of sounded the same to me and tended to go on for a long time. Then someone taught me how...
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Winterfest 2011: What is Jazz?
Editor's Note: Winterfest 2011 kicks off Friday night at Hilton Garden Inn in Riverhead with the Winterfest Warm-Up and continues for six weeks at vineyards across the North Fork. The following essay was excerpted from our Winterfest guide. From the listener’s perspective, in 500 words or less, how does one...
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Teeny Awards judges needed
East End Arts Council is seeking qualified volunteer judges for the ninth year of the Teeny Awards program, which recognizes individual achievement in local high school productions throughout the year. Applicants should have a strong theater background. Judges will anonymously attend high school productions and evaluate students using...
