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12.31.2019 Riverhead School District

Top Stories 2019: Riverhead School District proposes bond

The Riverhead Central School District community will vote in February on a capital bond proposal for $87.7 million after school officials worked to reduce the project’s total cost.

12.30.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: Lengthy trial ends with guilty verdict

Following a six-week trial with testimony from 26 witnesses and dozens of tense moments between the judge and defense, Thomas Murphy was found guilty Dec. 18 of all nine...

12.29.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: Shootings in Riverhead, Flanders

A tense scene unfolded outside a Doris Avenue home in August as police blocked off the road and an armored vehicle from the Suffolk County Emergency Services Unit was...

12.28.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: SWR community mourns Melissa Marchese

The Shoreham-Wading River community was dealt another devastating blow in June with the death of 18-year-old Melissa Marchese just two weeks before her high school graduation.

12.27.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: EPCAL sale to CAT progresses

As a result of November’s elections, both the sitting 2019 Riverhead Town Board and the incoming 2020 board now have a majority that favors moving forward with the sale...

12.26.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: Republicans sweep Town Board election

With primaries moved from September to June statewide, this year’s political season began in February, when Riverhead’s Republicans and Democrats assembled their slates for the 2019 elections.

12.25.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: Shark sightings in Long Island Sound

2019 was “Shark Year” off Long Island Sound on the North Fork.

12.23.2019 News

Top Stories 2019: Former principal accused of sexual misconduct, resigns

In August, an attorney representing former Riverhead High School student Anastasia Stapon filed a federal lawsuit against Riverhead Central School District officials and then high school principal Charles Regan...