03.17.2013 News Riverhead VFW hosts St. Patrick’s Day corned beef lunch The Riverhead Veterans of Foreign Wars post broke out the green beer and corned beef as their St. Patrick’s Day celebration lunch was revived for the first time in years...
02.04.2013 News EPCAL ballfields to be named for fallen Wading River soldiers A pair of new ballfields at the Enterprise Park at Calverton will be named in honor of two highly decorated Wading River soldiers who gave their lives defending their...
12.12.2012 News Funeral held in Calverton for last Sandy victim found on Staten Island More than one month after he was found drowned in his Midland Beach home, the last of Staten Island’s victims from Superstorm Sandy was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Monday...
11.11.2012 News Veterans Day ceremonies on the North Fork today Below is a list of Veterans Day-related ceremonies taking place on the North Fork today: Annual Veterans Day Ceremony presented by Combined Veterans of Riverhead, 11 a.m. at the...
11.11.2012 News A day of honor, as veterans flew to Washington D.C. Every weekend, if the weather’s good and the toll of his 89 years and the severe wounds he suffered permits it, the World War II veteran likes to sit...
07.25.2012 Business Have a military background? Win a free wedding After the outpouring of local support for Brecknock Hall’s wedding giveaway to two local soldiers last year, Peconic Landing, the event’s organizer, has decided to do it again. Active...
05.28.2012 News Riverhead honors fallen soldiers with Memorial Day parade Riverhead honored its fallen soldiers Monday morning in a parade from Pulaski Street School to downtown and back, stopping at St. John’s R.C. Church, at the Riverhead Cemetery and...
05.28.2012 Editorials Editorial: Remembering the lost on Memorial Day Since the 19th century, a day in late May has been a time of year when Americans — some of them, anyway, like the North Forkers who watch the...