American flags lined the front of Eli and Rose Briggs’ Riverhead home Saturday morning as family and friends gathered in their front yard. The group then walked a few houses down for a ceremony to formally rename the road in memory of Dashan Briggs, the fallen airman who grew up on the street with his grandparents. (more…)
Residents of Lewis Street will be tasked with deciding whether to permanently rename their road in honor of Tech. Sgt. Dashan Briggs. READ
“One thing I always remember about Briggs is that he was totally one-of-a-kind,” Jordan Harden said Saturday at a ceremony for his friend, Techical Sergeant Dashan Briggs, the Riverhead native who died in a March 15 helicopter crash in Iraq while serving as a member of the 106th Rescue Wing at Francis S. Gabreski airbase in Westhampton Beach. READ
The Riverhead Town Board will vote Tuesday to give an honorary destination to Lewis Street for Tech. Sgt. Dashan Briggs, a Riverhead native who died in a helicopter crash along the Iraq-Syria border on March 15. READ
Riverhead police are searching for a robbery suspect after a Riverhead man said he was attacked late Thursday while parked in his driveway by an armed man wearing a ski mask. READ