Riverhead News Review

06.20.2021 Government

State appellate court upholds earlier ruling on Gershow Recycling’s Hubbard Avenue facility

A state appellate court has sent Gershow Recycling’s Hubbard Avenue facility back to the Riverhead Planning Board for review, upholding an earlier state Supreme Court ruling. The ruling wasissued...

06.19.2021 News

Maserati crashes into East Main Street restaurant

Riverhead police Friday night responded to an unusual motor vehicle accident: a 2017 Maserati had crashed into the Dark Horse Restaurant. A department release said Mark Szynaka, 61, of...

06.19.2021 News

New York Islanders’ winger Kyle Palmieri finds a home on the North Fork

Ashlee Palmieri met her future husband, Kyle, about a decade ago, just as she was about to start college at Syracuse University. Kyle was a star hockey player for...

06.19.2021 News

Blotters: Riverside man charged with DWI after crash

A 55-year-old Riverside man was arrested Saturday for driving while intoxicated following a single-vehicle crash in Flanders. Christopher Smothers was driving north on County Road 104 when his vehicle...

06.19.2021 News

In annual essay contest, Pulaski Street students commemorate Juneteenth

For the first time, Juneteenth is recognized this year as a state holiday following legislation signed last October. And the day “which commemorates the end to slavery and celebrates Black...

06.18.2021 Sports

Baseball: Without big hit, SWR suffers big loss

When the bases were full, Shoreham-Wading River came up, well, not empty, but pretty darn close to it. That may explain, just as much as anything else, why Mount...