A proposed pilot program to allow alcohol and live music at Riverhead Town’s South Jamesport Beach for 14 weekends this summer is officially dead.
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UPDATE: The community forum originally scheduled for April 30 has been canceled as the Town Board decided to no longer move ahead with the proposal, officials announced Thursday, April 25.
Original Story: A plan for a 14-week pilot program to allow alcohol and music on weekend nights at Riverhead Town’s South Jamesport Beach appears dead in the water.
(more…)The Riverhead Town Board has scheduled a public meeting to get community feedback on the idea of selling alcohol and food at South Jamesport Beach and allowing live music at certain times over the summer.
(more…)Riverhead Town officials say they’d like to get community feedback before deciding whether to allow the sale of alcohol at the South Jamesport Beach concession. READ
Riverhead officials are considering whether South Jamesport beach could someday resemble Suffolk County’s Meschutt Beach in Hampton Bays, and whether the town could accomplish that by signing a long-term lease with a vendor who would in turn renovate the snack stand there.
“South Jamesport has the best potential” of the town’s beaches, said Ray Coyne, superintendent of Riverhead’s parks and recreation department. READ
Riverhead Town will be trying out new smart trash compactors meant to reduce trash woes and also offer Wi-Fi and cell phone connection for beachgoers at South Jamesport Beach and Iron Pier Beach. READ
A 21-year-old man was found dead of an apparent suicide near a gazebo at the South Jamesport Town Beach early Monday morning, according to Riverhead Town police. READ
The Riverhead Town Board will consider a recommendation to prohibit parking on a section of Peconic Bay Boulevard in Jamesport.