Joy Rankin

A formal written complaint prepared by library trustee John Munzel, charges board president Kathleen Berezny with alleged misconduct.

Riverhead library’s interim director Kathy Richter, hired in April after the abrupt departure of library director Joy Rankin, has resigned the position.

Riverhead Free Library trustees accepted the resignation of director Joy Rankin and appointed Kathy Richter of Greenport interim director at a special board meeting yesterday evening.

The only African-American trustee, who resigned in January, accuses the library trustees of racism and bigotry after the resignation of the library's first African-American director.

Her job description may be working with books, but it is with local veterans, impoverished residents and even inmates at the Suffolk County Jail where Liz Stokes finds her true purpose.

Riverhead library's fired business manager files suit with human rights division charging race discrimination and unlawful retaliation by the library's African-American director.