07.18.2012 News Town to buy back Horton Avenue houses damaged in flood The Riverhead Town Board approved a resolution at its meeting Tuesday night to buy back several Horton Avenue houses that were damaged during a four-day series of storms in...
03.29.2012 News Two years later, deadlines loom for Horton Avenue Horton Avenue residents and local government officials have been waiting more than a month for an overdue set of appraisals needed to move them forward in a federal grant...
08.03.2011 News Grant gives Horton Avenue flood victims some closure Porter Trent and his wife, Marie, have lived in their Horton Avenue home for 50 years. Mr. Trent was patching his driveway, with a bucket of tar nearby and...
08.01.2011 News Monday Briefing: 20 Greatest, Mardi Gras and Horton Avenue We began rolling out our list of the area’s greatest athletes of all-time Friday and announced No. 17 today, Keri Bettenhauser of Shoreham-Wading River. I’ll be honest, I rarely...
06.27.2011 News Horton Ave. flood victims file suit against town, county A group of Horton Avenue residents have served Riverhead Town and Suffolk County with a lawsuit alleging that the municipalities were negligent in their construction and maintenance of the...
05.26.2011 News A painful twist of fate is flood victim’s saving grace Seven months after Ivory Brown and her frail, 90-year-old father escaped unharmed from a flood that destroyed her recently renovated Horton Avenue home, she got a call from one...
05.10.2011 Uncategorized A new neighborhood for displaced Horton Avenue families? The nonprofit Long Island Housing Partnership is proposing an affordable housing development in Riverhead Town that would set aside new affordable homes for displaced Horton Avenue flood victims. The...
04.29.2011 News County’s housing plan for Horton families hits a snag Earlier this year, the county Legislature approved a bill that would have given victims of natural disasters — like the flood victims on Horton Avenue in Riverhead — preference...