09.19.2023 Community Animal Welfare League director salutes staff for 60 years of service From its start in a trailer in Southold in 1963 to operating animal shelters in both Southold and Riverhead towns, the story of the North Fork Animal Welfare League...
06.09.2023 News Mattituck resident Edward Rittberg is new command chief of 106th rescue wing Edward Rittberg has not had much time to spruce up his new office, so only the essentials are present. Among them are a small rock one of his daughters...
05.23.2023 Community Remembering beloved Town Hall employee Verna Campbell The beating heart of Riverhead Town Hall fell silent last week. Verna Campbell, one of the longest-serving and most colorful employees at Town Hall — who served seven supervisors...
02.01.2020 Profiles Riverhead Blotter: DWI arrests reported on Route 58 A Riverhead woman was arrested outside the M&T Bank in Riverhead Friday evening for drinking while intoxicated, police reports said. Valerie Paladino, 34, was driving a 2015 Honda sedan...
09.03.2015 News Forced from home, New Orleans families found sanctuary on North Fork Ten years have passed since Stephanie Jacob and Kathleen Donaldson uprooted their families from the suburbs of New Orleans to stay with family on the North Fork.
08.05.2015 News Mark Gatz, accomplished local musician and teacher, dies at 51 Mark Gatz was a gentle teacher, a devout lover of jazz, an unyielding worker and — as one fellow musician put it — “the best saxophonist on Long Island.”
11.22.2014 Profiles Q&A: Meet the new education director at East End Arts An artist with a holistic approach to lesson planning has been named East End Arts’ newest education director. Diane Giardi, who began work in the downtown Riverhead office last...
11.20.2014 Profiles He’s manned the halls at SCCC since 1977 His trademark shiny black boots have walked the halls of Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus for more than 35 years. As the longest-serving employee on campus, Junius Atkins...
11.13.2014 Profiles East End Arts student with Asperger’s hits the red carpet You won’t see Brandon Boardman using sheet music when he plays piano. That’s because the 20-year-old Riverhead musician can bang out an entire tune — mistake-free — after hearing...
