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Riverhead has been awarded more than $3.8 million in grant funding for the extension of public water to 64 homes Manorville area, and a separate $1.2 million grant to extend public water to homes on Forge Road in Calverton.

The proposed operating budget requires a tax rate of $5.98 per $1,000 of taxable assessed value, an increase of $29 per year for an 'average' home in Riverhead.

Town officials are not ready to set aside major recommendations of the pattern book, effectively rebuffing an effort by the Business Advisory Committee to revise the proposed code written to implement the $175,000 downtown study.

The Riverhead BID once again has a full card of downtown events planned: Alive on 25 on four Friday nights, fireworks, Reflections- Art in the Park, Cardboard Boat Races, Halloween Fest, and a holiday parade and bonfire.

The Riverhead school district’s '23-'24 budget proposal includes an increase of more than $4.2 million for general classroom teaching, instruction and support, Assistant Superintendent for Business Rodney Asse said at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

Southold Town is studying the potential adverse impacts of a controversial proposal to build two large storage buildings at Strong’s Yacht Center on Mattituck Inlet that will require the transit of 135,000 cubic yards of excavated materials by tractor-trailers through the Town of Riverhead.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency today announced a proposed drinking water standard for PFOA and PFOS of 4 parts per trillion, considered the lowest level at which they can be reliably measured. The proposal is "a game-changer," said environmental activist Adrienne Esposito.

Friends of the Big Duck will celebrate the arrival of spring with the 10th Annual Easter Duck Egg Hunt at Big Duck Ranch in Flanders on Saturday, April 1.

The mistake, first discovered by the auditor as it completed the 2020 audit, was fully corrected by fiscal year 2023 and the town faces no penalties for the error, according to Riverhead Financial Administrator Bill Rothaar.

Potentially heavy rain and strong winds are expected tonight into tomorrow morning as a coastal storm bears down on the local region.