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Friday, January 27 2012
The old Doc's Tavern on Pulaski Street in Polish Town may soon be reopening as La Isla Bar & Grill. Principals Delmis Reyes and Fausto Reyes obtained a New York State on-premises consumption liquor license in November, according to state liquor authority license records. The license expires O...
Friday, January 27 2012
They'll bike, run, swim... and spend a lot of money here. A triathlon is coming to downtown Riverhead this summer. Promoters Reuben Kline and Steve Tarpinian, of Event Power, a Long Island-based race event production company, got an informal green light from the Riverhead Town Board Thursday f...
Friday, January 27 2012
Riverhead Town will be excluded from a newly redrawn East End State Assembly District, if new district boundaries proposed by the state reapportionment task force are adopted. Southold would become part of a reconstituted First Assembly District, which will also include Shelter Island, East Hampt...
Thursday, January 26 2012
Sharpen your skates and pray for cold weather: the town's new ice rink was installed at Stotzky Park today. "I'm very excited," Riverhead recreation superintendent Ray Coyne said as he helped workers assemble the prefabricated portable rink inside the existing roller rink. The rink will be flood...
Thursday, January 26 2012
David Talmage of Riverhead has earned the rank of Eagle Scout and was pinned at an Eagle Scout Court of Honor ceremony at the Baiting Hollow Congregational Church on Saturday, Jan. 7. Talmage, 18, the son of Douglas and Lisa Talmage, became the fourth Eagle Scout in his extended family, following...
Thursday, January 26 2012
On the agenda today for the Riverhead Town Board: A special meeting at 9:45 a.m. where the board is expected to authorize a grant application to the New York State Archives. The regular work session will begin at 10 am, when the board will discuss a proposal for a downtown Riverhead triathlon. Other items for discussion:
Tuesday, January 24 2012
Like any other 9-year-old in the same situation, Christopher Timpone brushed off his mother's attention as they walked into the high school classroom with all eyes trained on them, the guests of honor. "I'm fine," he insisted as she urged him to slow down on the stairs. Indeed he is. The stitch...
Tuesday, January 24 2012
Four people, including a small child, were sent to Peconic Bay Medical Center's emergency room after a crash on Route 58 Tuesday morning. They didn't have far to travel. The crash occurred when a Toyota sedan pulled out of the hospital's parking lot onto Route 58, colliding with a westbound Niss...
Tuesday, January 24 2012
The waiting game continues. Regal Cinemas is still looking at downtown Riverhead as a possible location for a new multiplex, Supervisor Sean Walter said Monday. The supervisor had hoped to have some definitive news by now from Regal executives on the company's intentions about a downtown site. W...
Tuesday, January 24 2012
Riverhead firefighters responded to an alarm for a structure fire at a house on Deep Hole Road in Calverton Monday night. Firefighters responding to the scene found flames coming out of a wood-stove chimney. Firefighters put out the flames and performed tests to ensure all was safe.
Monday, January 23 2012
On second thought... Supervisor Sean Walter said today the Calverton Manor stipulation of settlement reviewed by the Planning Board last week is not what he thought it was. The stipulation submitted by the town's outside counsel, Walter said, is "the same one I rejected two years ago." He said he ...
Sunday, January 22 2012
They say no good deed goes unpunished. Nobody would blame veteran Riverhead firefighter Jerry Mapes for coming to that conclusion, but he can only think about how lucky he is. Worried about his 89-year-old mother venturing out onto her icy driveway to fetch her Sunday newspaper, Mapes stopped at...
Saturday, January 21 2012
UPDATE: The National Weather Service has cancelled the winter storm warning in effect for Suffolk County, effective 3:28 p.m. Some pockets of light snow, sleet or freezing drizzle will continue into the evening, according to the weather service. Temperatures will remain below freezing. "As such, untreated surfaces will remain quite
Saturday, January 21 2012
Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter is asking residents to stay off the roads today unless absolutely necessary. "Today's snow is causing hazardous road conditions in Riverhead and all across Long Island," Walter said in a phone interview Saturday morning. And according to the forecast, he note...
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