12.12.2018 Police Fire district commissioner election results Local fire districts held their elections for fire district commissioner seats Tuesday night, with contested races in three of the five districts in the Riverhead area. The results are...
12.04.2018 Police Fire commissioner votes set for Tuesday Local fire districts will have their annual election of commissioners Tuesday, Dec. 11. The commissioners are elected by the public to run the district, which is funded by taxes....
09.13.2018 Government Election 2018: Palumbo wins big in GOP primary for Assembly Incumbent Republican Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo won a landslide victory in Thursday’s primary against challenger Mike Yacubich.
11.02.2014 Letters Featured Letter: Political ad money could be better spent To the editor: Imagine, if instead of pouring an astounding amount of money into TV and radio ads, politicians spent campaign donations on projects that represented their values, and...
10.25.2014 Editorials Editorial: A look at the local voter turnout problem Eighty thousand. That’s around the number of 1st Congressional District voters who went to the polls in 2012 but are not likely to cast a vote in next month’s...
10.28.2013 Government Campaign finance: Giglio leads the pack in fundraising, spending Incumbent Republican Councilwoman Jodi Giglio has both raised and spent more money for her campaign than any other Riverhead Town Board candidate so far this year. Campaign disclosure reports...
03.15.2013 News Gabrielsen interested in open State Assembly post Thrown another name in the hat. Riverhead Councilman George Gabrielsen says he’s interested in running to fill the North Fork’s State Assembly seat vacant since former Assemblyman Dan Losquadro...
11.06.2012 News Displaced LIers swell numbers at Riverhead polls Election officials across Riverhead are reporting a high turnout this Election Day, matching and in some cases exceeding the turnout from the 2008 presidential election. “At 5:30 this morning...