01.01.2014 News No. 1 Top News Story: The Blizzard A record-setting blizzard dumped more than two feet of snow on parts of Riverhead Town in February, shuttering businesses and schools, clogging roads and trapping some residents in their...
12.31.2013 News No. 2 Top News Story: Unsolved killing of an admired young man A beloved local college student and Riverhead High School graduate was gunned down in a botched home invasion at his cousin’s Riverside home in January, stunning the close-knit school...
12.30.2013 News No. 3 Top News Story: EPCAL fast-track plan approved Two years ago, Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter proposed the establishment of an EPCAL “fast-track” process to ensure that projects can be built there without running into government red...
12.29.2013 News No. 4 Top News Story: Michael Hubbard returns to Riverhead After years of rehabilitation upstate, a local teenager who was severely injured in a gel candle explosion two years ago came home this June, just as a nonprofit organization...
12.28.2013 News No. 5 Top News Story: Republicans retain seats At the beginning of 2012, the all-Republican Riverhead Town Board appeared to be facing some daunting challenges from within as well as from the outside. But mostly from within....
12.27.2013 News No. 6 Top News Story: Sex offender trailers leave 2013 was the year the homeless sex offender trailers went away. For six years, the Suffolk County Department of Social Services kept two trailers on the East End as...
12.26.2013 News No. 7 Top News Story: Common Core testing — and the fallout This year marked the first time New York public school students took state assessments based on new curriculum known as Common Core. The Common Core State Standards is designed...
12.25.2013 News No. 8 Top News Story: Overrun by flooded cars First came the storm, then came the storm-damaged cars. By the tens of thousands. The Enterprise Park at Calverton found itself in the national spotlight as the most expansive...
