08.29.2024 News Blue jean sphere grabs attention on Sound Ave. Drive along Sound Avenue in Riverhead and something unique may catch your eye. An outdoor sculpture in the form of a 12-foot-high sphere crafted from hundreds of pairs of...
08.14.2024 Community Meet East End Arts’ new executive director Wendy Weiss’ commitment to East End Arts was cemented in 2020 when she joined the board after leaving a stable, well-paying job in Boston and returning to Long Island...
05.29.2024 News Rare artwork discovered at historical society A storied artist’s rare artwork, valued at more than $5,000, was nearly thrown into a value bin in Wading River. In an effort to keep its mission going, Wading...
05.23.2024 The Arts Riverhead’s street painting festival turns 28 this Sunday It’s been nearly three decades since some forward-thinking East End Arts staffers brought the popular Mosaic Street Painting Festival to Riverhead’s Main Street — and this Sunday’s Memorial Day...
05.20.2024 Community New permanent sculpture shines in Grangebel Park Due to cloud cover hiding the moon at times, it isn’t visible in the night sky. It will always shine in Grangebel Park in Riverhead though, thanks to an...
04.08.2024 News ‘Girl Funk’ band hits all the right notes Last Saturday, a new all-girl funk band made up of local middle and elementary school music teachers took the full house crowd at Eastern Front Brewing Company in Mattituck...
03.04.2024 Community Riverhead’s antidote to bias: film, facts and conversation The first installment in what Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force chair Mark McLaughlin calls “Black History on Screen” unfolded last Wednesday before a full house at The Suffolk with a...
02.21.2024 Community Long Island student artists create to celebrate Black History Month Through paint and chalk and pencil and ink, East End Arts’ fourth annual MLK Portrait Project takes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statements to heart — but instead of...
02.07.2024 News Riverhead non profits receive state arts funding Robotics classes. Historical exhibits and lectures. Digitizing archives. And yes, even new port-a-potties will be paid for by grants to several organizations in Riverhead. Four nonprofits — the Long...
01.17.2024 News East End Arts’ successful “Give It Up For The Arts” means the nonprofit doesn’t have to give up What would you give up to support the arts in your community? The downtown Riverhead-based arts nonprofit East End Arts launched a 90-day “Give It Up For The Arts”...
11.27.2023 Community Town appoints interim board of directors Vail-Leavitt Music Hall The more than 140-year-old Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in Riverhead will soon be led by a new board of directors. All five former members of the Council of the Vail-Leavitt...
11.16.2023 News Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings ‘A Creole Christmas’ to The Suffolk The 60-year-old New Orleans jazz group is set to perform Christmas and jazz classics in downtown Riverhead. Just in time for the holiday season, a special Christmas spectacle will...
11.12.2023 Environment Fish-shaped trash bin unveiled at Iron Pier Beach The Riverhead Anti-Litter Committee and Riverhead Town officials unveiled the Fish trash receptacle Monday afternoon at Iron Pier Beach in Jamesport — the first of its kind on Long...
08.02.2023 Community Photos: Last week’s Alive on 25 fair was hot, hot, hot Soaring temperatures Friday didn’t deter attendance at Riverhead’s second installment this summer of the Alive on 25 pop-up street fair. “Even though it was really hot, the community really...
06.13.2023 Community North Fork high schools break a leg at Teeny Awards Students from Greenport, Mattituck, Riverhead and Southold high schools all brought home awards at the 21st annual Teeny Awards ceremony held at Longwood High School Sunday. Riverhead-based arts and...
