05.28.2025 Sports Blue Waves advance to softball semifinals After defeating No. 10 Central Islip 11-6 on Saturday, May 24, at Riverhead High School to secure a place in the Suffolk County Class AAA winner’s bracket semifinal, the...
05.27.2025 News First ever Riverhead high school car show set for May 31 Update: This event is postponed a day to Sunday, June 1 due to Saturday’s weather forecast. Riverhead High School will host its first car show Saturday, May 31, from...
05.23.2025 Community Riverhead students craft ceramic poppies to honor veterans A ceramic installation made of poppies crafted by Riverhead High School student-artists will greet families, friends and loved ones who pay their respects to veterans buried at Calverton National...
05.23.2025 Sports Blue Waves keep baseball playoff drive alive with walk-off win Just making the playoffs was a major step forward for the Riverhead baseball program, according to third-year head coach Kervin Kerman. What was going to happen after that was...
05.19.2025 Sports Blue Waves clinch baseball playoffs with a must-win shutout in season finale After losing the first two games in the season’s final series against Walt Whitman — the last of which ended on a walkoff hit in the bottom of the...
04.16.2025 Sports Young Blue Waves boys lax team flashes some grit in comeback win The Riverhead boys lacrosse team has been contending with a lack of experience this season. When things go south, it’s hard for a team to dig themselves out if...
04.10.2025 Featured Story Community helps send two local students to Duke med school summer program After successfully reaching a fundraising goal, The Butterfly Effect Project will be sending two young women to Duke University this summer to take part in a pre-college program geared...
04.03.2025 Sports Riverhead welcomes new head football coach When Riverhead’s athletic director Brian Sacks posted an opening for a new head varsity football coach, Donald Nelson knew he had to apply. In his mind, it was his time. Nelson was born in...