03.22.2016 Letters Featured Letter: Family Community Life Center is ‘too costly’ Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter is right when he said First Baptist Church’s Family Community Life Center “is about to change Riverhead for decades to come.”
03.16.2016 Community Family Community Life Center, and zoning it needs, supported at hearing A proposed Community Benefit Zoning District was greeted with almost unanimous support at a standing room only public hearing at Tuesday’s Riverhead Town Board meeting, as was the Family Community...
06.23.2015 Religion Local church leaders react to Charleston shooting Lela Heyward received a phone call at midnight last Wednesday from her hometown of Charleston, S.C. She couldn’t believe the news. Although her nephew didn’t belong to Emanuel African...
03.02.2015 Opinion Featured Letter: First Baptist plans would benefit all of Riverhead To the Editor: I am writing in response to some thoughts on drug arrests found in both a recent News-Review editorial and a follow-up letter from Richard Park. I...
02.21.2015 Community Hundreds attend funeral of Tanya and Danielle Lawrence Tanya Lawrence was described as a giving person at her funeral Saturday, someone who cared for even the most distant of strangers. Her daughter, Danielle, whose body filled the...
01.20.2014 Community Rashad Robinson leads annual MLK breakfast When Riverhead native and civil rights advocate Rashad Robinson took to the podium Monday at the 29th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast at the Hyatt...
12.19.2013 Community Community Benefit Zone discussion grinds to a halt The Riverhead Town Board doesn’t have a three-vote majority in support of even scheduling a public hearing on the proposed Community Benefit Use District, which is needed for First...
11.21.2013 Government Zoning for church center doesn’t have the votes The proposed “Community Benefit” overlay zone needed for First Baptist Church’s Family Community Life Center will soon be revised since it doesn’t have the support of a majority of...
