Riverhead Town has received a $400,000 “Jumpstart” grant from Suffolk County that will help in the design and creation of bicycle and pedestrian paths connecting train and bus riders to downtown. READ
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Do you enjoy creating poems and want to share them with others?
Then head down to Blue Duck Bakery Café in Riverhead this Sunday, June 26, to celebrate Poetry Street’s second anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m.
A Smithtown artist working through East End Arts’ JumpstART project installed a mixed-media mural at the playground near the River & Roots community garden Monday morning. READ
A colorful mural on East Main Street seemed destined to be taken down a couple of weeks ago after the building owner’s architect said that it would be removed as part of a facade alteration.
But an effort by Caitlyn Shea — the artist who created the mural last summer — to save the piece of public art seems to have worked: the mural has proven too popular to remove. READ
Ansar Johnson of Riverhead hula hoops during the JumpstART event in Riverhead Friday night. (Credit: Estefany Molina)
East End Arts held its annual JumpstART festival in downtown Riverhead Friday evening. READ
The artist behind a East Main Street mural that may be removed as part of new construction is now fighting back. READ
East Ends Arts education director Diane Giardi will be organizing activities at the schoolhouse building. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
East End Arts is getting a new addition from way back when.
Fresh Ponds Schoolhouse, a one-room structure built in 1821, was renovated this spring by the Riverhead Town Building Department. (more…)
The Riverhead Town Board got a sneak peek at some of the artists who are planning to do public art projects in conjunction with East End Arts’ JumpstART program in August at Thursday’s Town Board work session.