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10.27.2020 Community

Mobile art installation in Jamesport promotes voting

The Jamesport Meeting House may have caught your eye driving along Main Road in Jamesport Tuesday night. A rotating display of colorful images was projected onto the historic building...

10.25.2020 Community

Celebrating Halloween with ‘Trunk or Treat’ event at Stotzky Park: Photos

The Riverhead Recreation Department hosted a drive-thru “Trunk or Treat” event Saturday evening at Stotzky Park to celebrate the Halloween tradition in a uniquely 2020 way. Cars were decked...

10.16.2020 Community

Fall festival at Brendan House to benefit woman who suffered spinal cord injury in accident

The Brendan House in Riverhead will host a fall festival this Saturday to benefit its residents, including Dana Barrett of East Quogue. Ms. Barrett, 29, is living with a...

10.11.2020 Community

Historical tours of Mattituck graveyard set to return this month

A new Halloween tradition is returning to Mattituck this year, with alterations in place to ensure compliance with pandemic rules. The Mattituck-Laurel Historical Society, Mattituck Presbyterian Church and North...

10.11.2020 News

Dedication ceremony held to commemorate Community Baptist Church’s home at historic building

Community Baptist Church in Northville now officially owns the 117-year-old church building on Sound Avenue where it’s been meeting for the past decade, and congregation members held a dedication...

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10.09.2020 Community

Riverhead’s Halloween parade, coffin races canceled; ‘Trunk or Treat’ event scheduled for Oct. 24

The Riverhead Business District is canceling its trick or treating, coffin races and Halloween parade, all of which were planned for the weekend of Oct. 23 to 25, according...

10.03.2020 Community

Registration now open for TangerFIT Virtual 5K to benefit local breast cancer patients, survivors

A sea of pink typically fills Tanger Outlets one weekend each fall as hundreds of people gather for the annual North Fork Breast Health Coalition 5K walk. The COVID-19...

10.01.2020 News

Diocese of Rockville Centre files for bankruptcy as sexual abuse lawsuits mount

Facing more than 200 lawsuits with allegations of sexual abuse, the Diocese of Rockville Centre announced Thursday it has filed for bankruptcy. In a video posted online, Bishop John...

09.11.2020 Community

Supervisor shares personal memories of 9/11 at Calverton ceremony

The images of 9/11 remain fresh in Riverhead Town Supervisor Yvette Aguiar’s memory. She was a sergeant in the New York Police Department on Sept. 11, 2001 and experienced...

09.07.2020 Community

Ceremonies scheduled Friday to commemorate 19th anniversary of Sept. 11

As the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks approaches this week, a number of ceremonies to commemorate the lives lost are planned across the North Fork. The...

09.01.2020 Community

Town unveils new playground equipment in Wading River, Jamesport

A piece of playground equipment that was erroneously sent to Riverhead Town nearly a decade ago and kept in storage because town officials couldn’t get the company that sent...

08.29.2020 Community

Community Leaders of the Year: The McMorris Family

Editor’s Note: The video below was prepared for our 2019 Times Review Media Group People of the Year event in March. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, we were forced to...

08.29.2020 Community

Riverhead Free Library to close on Sundays beginning in October

Riverhead Free Library will not be open on Sundays from October 2020 through April 2021 due to budgetary restrictions, according to library director Kerri McMullen-Smith. In May, the Library...

08.21.2020 News

Change coming to local R.C. parishes as one priest retires, others find new homes

Father Richard Hoerning arrived at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport six years ago, and on Sunday, Aug. 23, his congregation will say goodbye to him in the way...

08.19.2020 Community

100 years ago, women’s suffrage passed in what was hardly a sure thing

Without cameras or ceremony, and with the stroke of a steel pen in the privacy of his home on the morning of Aug. 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge...

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