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03.30.2026 Featured Story

Wells Farm barn heavily damaged by fire, second blaze in six months

This story has been updated with additional information. A blaze ripped through a barn at Wells Farm on Monday — the second at the historic property since a devastating...

11.21.2025 Community

Meet Wells Farm: Riverhead’s oldest farming family, rooted since 1661

Wells Farm has survived the Revolutionary War, the Industrial Revolution, two World Wars and the population boom that has squeezed the North Fork’s agricultural heritage. Now, Riverhead’s oldest farming...

11.20.2025 News

Wells Farm faces $2M loss after fire, community rallies behind it

The Wells Farm suffered more than $2 million in damages in the raging blaze that torched two structures and killed nearly 20 animals, the family said. The destruction has...

11.13.2025 Featured Story

Three hospitalized in Wells Farm fire that killed pigs, chickens

A massive blaze at the historic Wells Farm in Northville on Wednesday, Nov. 12, sent three people to the hospital with smoke inhalation, including two granddaughters of the farm’s...

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Wells Farm barn heavily damaged by fire, second blaze in six months

Meet Wells Farm: Riverhead’s oldest farming family, rooted since 1661

Wells Farm faces $2M loss after fire, community rallies behind it

Three hospitalized in Wells Farm fire that killed pigs, chickens