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Cops: Drunk driver in crash with marked police unit Saturday night in Riverhead

by Aug 16, 2020
Riverhead Police charged a man with aggravated driving while intoxicated after a crash with a marked police car on West Main Street last night.

Pandemic brought ‘radical changes’ for Long Island’s last surviving duck farm

by Aug 14, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic shut down the Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue for three months. Its owners are beginning to ramp up production again, hoping the restaurants that are its core market will make a comeback.

Bowling alleys can reopen Monday, with guidance on gyms to follow, Cuomo says

by Aug 14, 2020
Bowling alleys can reopen Monday, and guidance for the reopening of gyms will be released next week, Cuomo says.

Riverhead officials seek moratorium on new commercial solar facilities

by Aug 13, 2020
Riverhead Town is considering a 12-month moratorium on new commercial solar energy production facilities. The moratorium would not affect the two applications for major solar production facilities currently pending for some 488 acres of land in Calverton.

Argument leads to machete attack in Riverside: police

by Aug 13, 2020
An argument between two men on Old Quogue Road in Riverside turned violent Sunday night, with one man repeatedly striking the other with a machete, according to Southampton Town Police.

‘Dine on 25’ returns to downtown Riverhead tonight

by Aug 13, 2020
Choose from more than a dozen eateries, plus ice cream. craft breweries and a distillery in downtown Riverhead during tonight's "Dine on 25" event.
A police officer gives a speeding ticket to a driver.

Southampton Town establishes policing practices review committee mandated by governor

by Aug 12, 2020
The governor, by an executive order signed June 12, mandated every local government that has a police agency to perform a comprehensive review of current police force deployments, strategies, policies, procedures, and practices and, with community stakeholder participation and input, develop a plan to improve them.

Police investigate shots fired, injured woman at East Main Street apartment complex

by Aug 12, 2020
Riverhead Police are investigating a report of shots fired and a female victim with a possible gunshot wound at the River Pointe apartment complex at 821 East Main Street early this morning.

Sports, clubs, musical performances, field trips and more cut from 2020-2021 contingent budget

by Aug 11, 2020
The Riverhead school board made 'painful' cuts totaling more than $2.4 million from the proposed budget twice rejected by voters this year — to arrive at a spending level allowed by law for a contingent budget.

Suffolk County Planning Commission green-lights EPCAL subdivision

by Aug 11, 2020
Riverhead’s proposed subdivision of land at the Calverton Enterprise Park got a green light from the Suffolk County Planning Commission last week.
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