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 a bumper lying in the road. READ
Riverhead Profiles
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 headband.
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 an October vacation to Las Vegas. They were also hoping to buy a second home in Florida one day soon. READ
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 best new science teachers.
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 a New York City fireman with Ladder 113 and Mr. Brickman spent the night. READ
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 the floor was a pregnant 16-year-old, seizing and frothing at the mouth. READ
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 to begin her first season playing on the Monarchs’ varsity tennis team, and she was so eager to begin, she stopped by JV practice first. READ
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.