RiverheadLOCAL

An air quality health advisory is in effect all day again today for fine particulates resulting from the wildfires in eastern Canada.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of another man in Riverside yesterday afternoon.

The town’s Business Advisory Committee said the zoning is too prohibitive for prospective recreational cannabis business owners and could violate the state’s Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act. 

An air quality health advisory for fine particulates is in effect all day today throughout most of New York State, including Long Island, due to smoke from the wildfires currently raging in the province on Quebec in eastern Canada.

Triple Five Chairman Nader Ghermezian and other family members — including a nephew listed as a principal in Calverton Aviation & Technology — will be added as defendants in a civil racketeering lawsuit pending in the Southern District of New York, under a court order signed last week.

The Suffolk County Police Department Impound Section will auction off 120 vehicles Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. at the impound yard in Westhampton.

Police have blocked all entrances to Riverhead Centre on Route 58 following a bomb threat this morning. Buildings inside the sprawling shopping center have been evacuated and the Suffolk County Police Department bomb squad has been notified.

Travis Gittens, 18, left the Timothy Hill Children's Ranch on Saturday, June 3 without permission. Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to call Riverhead Police at 631-727-4500 All calls will be kept confidential, police said.

Peconic Bay Medical Center unveiled plans yesterday for the next phase of an expansion it says will lay the foundation for bringing advanced specialized care to the region.

Transfers of real estate in the Town of Riverhead and selected hamlets in the Town of Southampton reported for RiverheadLOCAL by Suffolk Vision title service on June 2, 2023.