Top Stories 2021 Archives - Riverhead News Review

12.31.2021 Featured Story

Top Stories 2021: Rep. Lee Zeldin launches bid for governor

Lee Zeldin has declared a bid for New York’s governor seat in 2022. If Mr. Zeldin becomes the Republican party’s official nominee for the race, he would need to...

12.30.2021 Featured Story

A look back at every News-Review cover from 2021

As we prepare to usher in the new year, take a visual look at the stories of 2021 told through each front page of the Suffolk Times this year....

12.29.2021 Education

Top Stories 2021: New superintendent, Budget passes in Riverhead

2021 was an eventful year in the Riverhead Central School District. In April, after a nearly six month search, Dr. Augustine Tornatore was appointed the Riverhead Central School District...

12.28.2021 Business

Year in Business 2021: Hiring a ‘nightmare’ as businesses bounce back from pandemic

Across the North Fork, it was business as un-usual again in 2021 as COVID-19 continued to influence the local economy. In the spring, relaxed restrictions allowed businesses to reopen...

12.28.2021 News

Top Stories 2021: Rollout out COVID-19 vaccine accelerates after slow start

The COVID-19 vaccine, once a distant hope, became widespread on the North Fork in 2021. State data indicates many North Fork zip codes — including Laurel, Jamesport, New Suffolk,...

12.26.2021 Featured Story

Top Stories 2021: Aquebogue teacher remembered as a ‘superhero’

In April, the community mourned Keri Stromski, the beloved Aquebogue schoolteacher, who died at age 48 of stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Days before her death, a parade of...

12.25.2021 News

Top Stories 2021: Drag racing makes long awaited return to Long Island

In early April, Pete Scalzo, a motor sports enthusiast whose promoted events for 35 years, appeared before the Riverhead Town Board with a proposal to bring back drag racing...

12.24.2021 News

Top Stories 2021: Town square development highlights big plans for downtown

For the past few years, officials in Riverhead have been focused on the development of downtown Main Street. But last year, the focus turned, in part, toward demolishing some...