03.08.2019 Videos 2018 Public Servant of the Year: Dashan Briggs On an overcast Saturday afternoon in October, longtime Riverhead High School football and track coach Sal Loverde held a microphone to share his memories of Dashan Briggs. It was...
03.23.2018 Community Riverhead native earns posthumous promotion; funeral arrangements set Dashan Briggs, the Riverhead native who died last week in a helicopter crash in Iraq, earned a posthumous promotion to the rank of technical sergeant, according to the New...
03.22.2018 Community Friends, family remember Staff Sgt. Dashan Briggs From an early age, Dashan Briggs accepted the fact that anything he wanted in life had to be earned. Instilled with a strong work ethic by his grandfather, Eli...
03.22.2018 Columns Column: A ‘great one’ in Riverhead gone too soon To celebrate his 30th birthday, Dashan Briggs and his wife, Rebecca, planned a trip to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. The couple share the same birthday: Dec. 28.
03.20.2018 Community GoFundMe started for family of Riverhead native who died in Iraq crash As the family of Riverhead native Dashan Briggs makes his funeral arrangements, community members are looking for ways to help his widow and their young children.
03.17.2018 News Four 106th Rescue Wing airmen killed in Iraq officially identified The Department of Defense released the names Saturday evening of the four New York Air National Guard members assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton Beach who were...