02.01.2016 Government Rec/senior department merger to start in September, save $1M A plan to merge the Riverhead Town recreation and senior citizens’ departments will save a little more than $1 million over five years and increase the number of programs...
12.10.2015 Government Town Board member calls for a raise — for the Town Board Fresh on the heels of an Empire Center report that said that Riverhead Police salaries are 30 percent higher than the state average, and a Newsday report that ranked...
10.21.2015 Business Will lease with Luminati bring high-tech back to EPCAL? Should the town approve a plan to lease its eastern runway in Calverton for up to 30 years to an aerospace start-up? Or should it try to renegotiate with...
08.06.2015 Government Microbrewery zoning proposed for Polish Town Where, oh where, to place another brewery in town? Not that one is coming, necessarily.
07.09.2015 Government Supe’s ethics plan gets mixed reviews in town hall A proposal to ban elected officials from being members of a political party’s executive board didn’t garner much support from Riverhead Republican Committee members at a public hearing Tuesday.
07.04.2015 Letters Letter: Less studies, more action Almost daily, the media teases stories about how to lose weight and get into shape and the answer is always the same: diet and exercise. Most folks don’t want...
03.31.2015 Government Town adopts flyboarding regs; Flyboard LI owner leaving town After debating the issue numerous times since last summer — in fact, the word “flyboard” appears in 12 headlines in the News-Review online archives — the Riverhead Town Board...
02.19.2015 Government ‘Epiphany’ builder: Leave my home addition alone A public hearing over whether or not a Baiting Hollow man’s home addition is safe turned into a colorful hour-long give-and-take between the property owner and the Town Board.