07.15.2020 Education Five Riverhead graduates awarded scholarships in memory of Heidi Behr The spirit of Heidi Behr continues to be kept alive by Heidi’s Helping Angels, which handed out $2,000 scholarships to five recent Riverhead High School graduates Monday. “Heidi lost...
10.17.2017 Community Heidi’s Helping Angels hosts eighth annual dinner Riverhead Polish Hall was packed Thursday night with firemen, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), police officers and community members who came out to support the eighth annual Heidi’s Helping Angels...
10.06.2016 Community Heidi’s Helping Angels to honor local volunteers Last April, heading back to a campsite he’d rented with family and friends at Indian Island County Park following a Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps installation dinner, Joseph Oliver noticed...
07.29.2016 Community How a dog named Zuko is transforming Jared Behr’s life Jared Behr, curled into a ball on a bean-bag chair, rarely unclenches his hands on his own. The 12-year-old boy’s cerebral palsy makes him tense up, his grandmother June...
05.04.2015 Community Ten years after tragedy, a new way to remember RVAC members The Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps has unveiled a memorial to honor two of its members that died in a crash while transporting a patient to the hospital in 2005....
01.10.2015 Community Local teens honored Saturday by Heidi’s Helping Angels On Saturday morning, three local teenagers were honored by Heidi’s Helping Angels for their part in rescuing an unidentified Medford man who Riverhead police said fell into the Peconic...
07.02.2013 News Heidi Behr Way now an official road in Riverhead The road running along the Peconic River in downtown Riverhead is now officially known as Heidi Behr Way, honoring a Riverhead ambulance volunteer who died at the age of...
06.18.2013 News Ambulance barn to honor Heidi Behr and Bill Stone Earlier this year, the Riverhead Town Board voted to name a section of road in downtown’s riverfront parking lot after Heidi Behr, a Riverhead ambulance volunteer who died in...