01.02.2021 COVID-19 Top Stories 2020: COVID-19 left deadly impact at long-term care facilities When the first COVID-19 outbreak occurred in the United States at a nursing home in Washington, it became abundantly clear that long-term care facilities, filled largely with elderly residents,...
01.01.2021 COVID-19 Top Stories 2020: COVID-19 forces schools to transition to remote learning On a Monday morning in March, one day after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Suffolk County, students at Shoreham-Wading River High School were en route to school...
12.31.2020 COVID-19 Top Stories 2020: A pandemic alters our way of life As the annual holiday festivities subsided with the start of January, business began to return to normal across the North Fork. On. Jan. 1,at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead,...
12.30.2020 Featured Story Top Stories 2020: 8 minutes, 46 seconds changed our world In May, an eight-minute, 46-second video of a deadly police encounter in Minneapolis shook the world, igniting protests in every corner of the nation, including here on the East...
12.29.2020 Featured Story Top Stories 2020: Thomas Murphy gets maximum sentence in Boy Scout death Two years to the day after killing 12-year-old Andrew McMorris in a drunken driving crash, Thomas Murphy was sent to prison. Mr. Murphy, 61, of Holbrook, was sentenced Sept....
12.28.2020 Featured Story Top Stories 2020: Riverhead police officer seriously injured in crash A Riverhead police officer was seriously injured during a police pursuit in March that began in Greenport. Robert Sproston, 28, was responding to a report of a stolen vehicle...
12.27.2020 Featured Story Top Stories 2020: As hardships go, Riverhead schools have had more than their share The Riverhead school community was dealt a series of blows this year, between a failed bond proposal, a twice-rejected budget and the sudden departure of its superintendent — on...
12.26.2020 Featured Story Top Stories 2020: Far fewer Riverhead votes for Trump in 2020 Across America and Long Island, the November elections brought historic numbers of voters to the polls. Record numbers voted by mail-in ballots, locally and across the country. While the...
