01.15.2014 News Riverhead BID prez cold on BBQ cookoff & blues fest pitch A proposal to have a barbecue cooking contest and blues festival along the Peconic River on Labor Day weekend got a chilly reception from the president of the Riverhead...
12.14.2013 News Hundreds gather downtown for annual bonfire There were two new additions to this year’s 14th annual Holiday bonfire held in downtown Riverhead Saturday night: floating fire pits and snow. Riverhead BID president Ray Pickersgill said...
09.21.2013 Business Pieceful Quilting, in new location, rebounds after storm Just days after flooding from superstorm Sandy left her downtown Riverhead shop in ruins, Pieceful Quilting owner Angela Veeck had made up her mind. She would head north, away...
07.22.2013 Business Pickersgill re-elected Riverhead BID president; Sendlewski challenges Robert James Salon owner Ray Pickersgill was re-elected to a fourth term as president of the Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association last Wednesday, but it didn’t come without...
05.20.2013 Columns Pickersgill to zip liner: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out I read John Finnegan’s column about his experience trying to site his zip line in downtown Riverhead. I thought the column was nasty and unnecessary. It reminded me of two...
05.10.2013 Business Zip line proposal met with opposition from businesses A Westchester man with hopes of bringing a 900-foot-long zip line to the Peconic waterfront in downtown Riverhead plans to address the Town Board at its work session Thursday....
04.24.2013 News Will downtown road be named for Bissett or Behr? The unnamed road that runs along the Peconic Riverfront in downtown Riverhead may soon have a name. But which name? One proposal calls for the section of road from...