05.25.2023 Business Secret to Riverhead’s renaissance: grant money In recent years, Riverhead has been swinging for the fences when it comes to seeking grant money — securing more than $26 million in public funding since 2017, according...
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...
05.10.2023 Community Little League season opens with field dedication Jeremy Savio remembers going to Yankee Stadium as a kid and looking at the names in Monument Park. “I was always dreaming that my name would be up among...
10.06.2016 Community Heidi’s Helping Angels to honor local volunteers Last April, heading back to a campsite he’d rented with family and friends at Indian Island County Park following a Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps installation dinner, Joseph Oliver noticed...
09.27.2016 Riverhead Profiles Finding inspiration from his mother’s fight against breast cancer Robbie Block was the picture of focus, squatting on the Riverhead sideline in meditation, helmet in hand with his long brown locks flowing over the sides of his white...
09.22.2016 Riverhead Profiles Flanders family mourns tragic loss after crash Julio Aceituno-Perez sat with his wife, Gladys, on the morning of Sept. 13 in their Flanders home. They had celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in July and were planning...
09.14.2016 Bishop McGann-Mercy Mercy teacher named one of the nation’s best new science teachers Months before she started her first year at Bishop McGann-Mercy Diocesan High School on Friday, living environment teacher Sarah Spector had already been recognized as one of the nation’s...
09.11.2016 News Jamesport man, a retired FDNY firefighter, battles 9/11-related cancer On the night of Sept. 10, 2001, Steve Brickman helped his friend Bill Roberts build a deck at his home. When they finished, Mr. Roberts headed to work as...
09.01.2016 Health Riverhead doctor on a mission to save lives across the globe Dr. Rajesh Patel was standing inside a big, empty hospital in a remote region of Brazil in 1999 when a nurse summoned him to the emergency room. Lying on...
08.25.2016 Bishop McGann-Mercy New tennis courts at McGann-Mercy honor Keith Goodale Brooke Kappenberg arrived at Bishop McGann-Mercy High School early Monday morning, well before the opening practice of the 2016 season scheduled for 5 p.m. The Mercy sophomore was set...
08.19.2016 Riverhead Profiles Riverhead teens create online petition to save skate park More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition to save the town skate park at Stotzky Memorial Park, an effort started by a 15-year-old Riverhead teen.
08.11.2016 Health Three years after horrific crash, Riverhead man takes first steps On May 28, 2013, Jeanette Fink received a phone call in the middle of night telling her that her son, Justin Walker, who was visiting family in North Carolina,...
08.10.2016 Riverhead Profiles She’s making a splash with some flash at Riverhead Raceway Say this about Cassandra Denis’ entry into auto racing: She brings flash. It was at a women’s race in Pennsylvania one day when Denis was thrown into a car...
08.04.2016 Riverhead Profiles Riverhead grad Brenna Latour dances to national titles On Friday, three weeks after the conclusion of the Starbound National Talent Competition near Chicago, Brenna Latour sat at the kitchen table in her Riverhead home, reflecting on her...
07.29.2016 Community How a dog named Zuko is transforming Jared Behr’s life Jared Behr, curled into a ball on a bean-bag chair, rarely unclenches his hands on his own. The 12-year-old boy’s cerebral palsy makes him tense up, his grandmother June...
