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05.23.2025 Community

Riverhead students craft ceramic poppies to honor veterans

A ceramic installation made of poppies crafted by Riverhead High School student-artists will greet families, friends and loved ones who pay their respects to veterans buried at Calverton National...

Five students stand in a line holding red ceramic poppies that they crafted.

09.10.2024 Community

Events and commemorations to remember 9/11

In somber recognition of the events 23 years ago on September 11, 2001, towns across the North Fork will gather in tribute. Multiple ceremonies and events are taking place...

05.29.2024 Community

Photos: Memorial Day Commemoration at Calverton National Cemetery, May 27, 2024

According to photographer, Jeremy Garretson, “The size and beauty of this location is always humbling. 295,000 gravesites, with another 6,000 to 7,000 burials each year.” Congressmen and former serviceman,...

A Memorial Day commemoration ceremony where men stand at attention, saluting and a crowd sits in chairs. American flags wave throughout the property.

05.24.2024 Community

Memorial Day parades and remembrances this weekend

Monday, May 27 marks Memorial Day 2024. Here are some of the big events and ceremonies honoring America’s fallen service members across the area. RIVERHEAD The Riverhead Memorial Day...

12.03.2023 Editorials

Editorial: A veteran is buried and the American spirit is rekindled

In our newspapers last week, we wrote about the burial in Calverton National Cemetery of a soldier, Sgt. Bernard Sweeney, whose remains were first found near where he went...

11.22.2023 News

Soldier lost in World War II finally laid to rest in Calverton

On the day Sgt. Bernard Sweeney went missing — Dec. 16, 1944 — he was with a group of fellow U.S. Army soldiers fighting Germans near the small town...

05.30.2023 Community

Calverton National Cemetery hosts Memorial Day observance: Photos

The annual Memorial Day ceremony at Calverton National Cemetery was held on Monday, May 29. Congressman and veteran Nick LaLota gave the guest address. Gravesite flags will remain in...

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