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Coffin races may not return to Riverhead’s annual Halloween Festival

The Riverhead Business Improvement District’s Halloween Fest is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, and the event will include some of the staples of past events, including the annual Halloween...

Coffin races return to Riverhead for annual Halloween Festival

The Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association is bringing back the popular coffin races for the second straight year at its annual Halloween Festival Oct. 27. The Halloween Parade...

BID to hire someone to cleanup downtown

The Riverhead Business Improvement District’s Management Association is planning to hire someone to help clean up downtown Riverhead. At its meeting last Wednesday, the BIDMA voted to spend up...

Town Board discusses 225th Anniversary, downtown street fair

Could Riverhead replicate Patchogue’s Alive After Five?

Riverhead has long been compared to Patchogue in the eyes of many, heralded as the next area in Suffolk to blossom into a fully revitalized and vibrant downtown.

Poe festival likely returning in 2015

The Edgar Allan Poe Festival looks like it will be doing an encore next year around Halloween. Riverhead Town Board members discussed the possibility of doing the festival again...

WaterFire creators eye Riverhead for latest installation

Light up the Peconic! A plan to bring “WaterFire” to downtown Riverhead could be in the works. WaterFire Riverhead, as it’s being billed, is a based on similar WaterFire displays...

Edgar Allan Poe Festival in the works for downtown Riverhead

Port Jefferson has hosted a Charles Dickens Festival around Christmastime for the past 13 years. And now, the man who has been instrumental in the success of that event,...