08.28.2025 Education SWR High School gym fire shifts athletics, phys ed activities An Aug. 16 fire at Shoreham-Wading River High School that damaged the main gym ceiling and floor will require some athletics and physical education classes to relocate until repairs...
08.19.2025 News Fire damages SWR High School gym Saturday A fire at Shoreham-Wading River High School damaged the main gym ceiling Saturday morning. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Responders opened up the roof to...
08.08.2025 News Raging fire destroys a Calverton home on Middle Road The Riverhead Fire Department and other area first responders battled a structure fire at 1535 Middle Road in Calverton in the early hours of Friday morning. When firefighters arrived,...
06.04.2025 News Large fire rages through recycling facility in Calverton A multiple-building fire broke out around 2 a.m. Wednesday, June 4, at the Crown Recycling Facility at 472 Youngs Ave. in Calverton. As of 1 p.m. the blaze had...
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...
06.29.2023 News Controversy continues to swirl around Polish Town fire rescue A Riverhead Fire Department spokesman said on Thursday that he believes “both sides” in an increasingly acrimonious debate about whether two firefighters who were honored this month with the...
02.02.2023 News Fundraiser underway for fire victims who were rescued by two RFD volunteers Riverhead friends and neighbors are rallying around two elderly Polish Town residents who were rescued in dramatic fashion from a burning building last week. As of Wednesday afternoon, more...
11.18.2022 Featured Story One year later, community remembers Rivera family members who died in Second Street blaze The date of Nov. 16 will always bring difficult memories for Keith Polchies of Riverhead. He lived in the century old home on Riverhead’s Second Street for 16 years...
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