07.13.2017 Environment Peconic Estuary Program celebrates 25 years, but funds in doubt Kevin McDonald remembers 1985, when brown tide was first detected in Peconic Bay. He was recently married, and he and his wife had purchased snorkels and face masks to...
04.21.2017 Business Peconic Paddler sold to group led by firefighter Jim Dreeben has been saying he’s going to retire for “probably 20 years,” but every summer, he returns to his Riverside business, Peconic Paddler, to rent kayaks and canoes....
03.19.2017 Videos One Minute on the North Fork: Peconic River For this week’s “One minute on the North Fork” we filmed along the Peconic River on a cool afternoon Thursday near downtown Riverhead.
09.02.2016 Environment In Peconic Estuary, rising temperatures appear responsible for several issues Over the past month, the Peconic Estuary has been hit with one environmental blow after another, a Stony Brook biologist and marine researcher said, thanks in part to rising...
06.17.2016 Environment Restored dam, fish ladder on Peconic River opened For centuries, alewife — a silver-scaled herring-like fish — return to Riverhead’s Peconic River estuary to spawn, making it as far as Grangebel Park to lay their eggs. But a series of...
05.12.2016 Environment Underwater video shows Peconic River fish struggling to get oxygen Hundreds of bunker, their mouths yawning open as they gape for oxygenated water and to clean their gills, were filmed swimming in the Peconic River Wednesday. It’s a sign...
03.03.2016 Environment 13 years after master plan called for action, downtown flooding persists A few times a year, the riverfront parking lot in downtown Riverhead floods during high tide. Sometimes it happens during hurricane season. Other times, it occurs in the middle...
12.23.2015 News Top Stories 2015: Fish die-offs clog the Peconic Estuary North Fork beaches had some less-than-ideal visitors this summer: thousands of dead bunker fish.