01.02.2024 Year in Review 2023 Our most-read stories of 2023 A look back at the news, trends and personalities that grabbed the most attention on RiverheadNewsReview.com last year (courtesy of the wizards at Google analytics.) 1. Riverhead homecoming game cut...
12.31.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Remembering Preston Gamble Fifteen-year-old Preston Gamble was shot and killed on April 12 in Calverton. The shocking and tragic incident remains unsolved, prompting his mother, Chakara Jones, to share her story with...
12.30.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Long Island Wine Country at 50 2023 was a big year for Long Island Wine Country, marking 50 years since the first wine-centric vines were planted — on a plot of fallow potato farmland. Today,...
12.29.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Top sports stories Riverhead girls volleyball. The Blue Waves made the playoffs for the first time in a decade, but that wasn’t enough for them. After securing the playoff berth with a...
12.29.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Golden boot of Alexis Ré Riverhead top goal scorer Alexis Ré’s final season as a Blue Wave didn’t end exactly the way she hoped. After starting out 4-1, the Blue Waves only managed to...
12.28.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: First-ever North Fork Pride parade held in Greenport The North Fork’s first pride parade was held in June. The nonprofit LGBT Network, along with Greenport business own- er Lori Panarello, organized the June 23 event “North Fork...
12.28.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Arson ruled out as cause of Tesla Center fire In late November, the News-Review relayed the bad news of a fire at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe in Shoreham. At the time, the cause of the fire...
12.27.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: EPCAL saga comes to a close — for now For more than a year, a colorful cadre of Riverhead residents living in neighborhoods surrounding the Enterprise Park at Calverton pressured town officials to abandon their plan to sell...
12.27.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Ice rink finally opens in Calverton After eight years of development, the new Ed Westfall Arena at Peconic Ice Rinks officially opened in November, the first such sports facility on the East End. The NHL-regulation...
12.26.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Drama in Riverhead School District There’s been no shortage of drama at Riverhead Central School District this year. Superintendent Augustine Tornatore stepped down from his position in October. Mr. Tornatore previously requested a leave...
12.26.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: New leaders and new Town Hall digs The Riverhead Town Board voted unanimously in early April to hire J. Petrocelli Contracting Inc. as the “sole and exclusive construction manager” for a new Town Hall at 4...