01.01.2016 Government Top Stories 2015: Medical marijuana is coming to town The year 2015 saw giant leaps locally in the world of medical marijuana. Dispensaries went from an idea to a firm concept to something that will soon be a...
12.23.2015 Columns Column: Is it better to visit or host for the holidays? It’s an age-old question, one I’m sure great philosophers such as Socrates, Nietzsche and St. Thomas Aquinas pored over. I think their work on this topic has yet to...
12.18.2015 Government More union contracts about to expire soon Riverhead’s civil service workers have been without a contract since the beginning of the year and two more town unions are about to join them as their contracts expire...
12.17.2015 Business $10M food processing site gets backing from New York State A $10 million food processing facility is just one of about a dozen projects in the Riverhead area that will receive state grants as part of New York’s annual...
12.14.2015 Community Riverhead police officer steps up as Little League president When the first pitch of the 2015 Riverhead Little League season was thrown, it wasn’t clear who — if anyone — would step up to the plate and serve...
12.01.2015 Government County OK’s new planning alliance with little local support Is an effort by Suffolk County to tie funding for certain projects to attendance at a quarterly regional planning meeting an effort to get everyone on the same page,...
11.26.2015 Government Federal bill eyes studying dangers of high school football Can Congress make high school football a safer game? A few federal legislators are trying to. Three congressmen are making a bipartisan effort to study the game of high...
11.25.2015 Government Bender: I had ‘no knowledge’ of prescription drug ring In his first one-on-one interview with the media since his arrest and guilty plea in federal court Tuesday, former Southampton Town Councilman Brad Bender told the News-Review he became addicted...