Alek Lewis

The Riverhead Town Board received support from residents last night on its plan to extend the moratorium on applications for developing new solar energy production facilities for another year.

The Riverhead Town Board will move to grant board members the ability to participate virtually during public meetings if they aren’t physically available to attend in person. 

The Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps will start billing insurance companies for all ambulance rides next year in an effort to boost revenue to offset the rising cost of first aid supplies and hire more staff members to respond to calls.

The Riverhead Faculty and Community theater will present its youth-on-stage production of Annie Jr. this weekend. Performances are on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m at the Riverhead High School auditorium.

SoBol, the Long Island-based café franchise that serves fresh smoothies and acai bowls, celebrated the grand opening of a new store on Route 58 in Riverhead today.

The Town Board set upcoming public hearings on extending the commercial solar moratorium for another year, proposed rules for marijuana retail shops and lounges in the town and more.

Town officials want to reduce parking time limits on Main Street from two hours to one hour to increase the “flow” of the downtown area. The Town Board last week scheduled an Oct. 4 public hearing on an amendment to parking rules downtown.

Town-designated master developers RXR/Georgica Green Ventures will be the subject of a qualified and eligible sponsor hearing on Sept.27 if the Town Board authorizes the hearing at a special meeting Tuesday morning.

Last week marked a lot of firsts for the Riverhead Charter School. But the biggest firsts were happening on Sound Avenue — miles away from the school’s main campus on Middle Country Road in Calverton — where its high school students started their classes in the newly renovated old Northville schoolhouse, and the Riverhead Charter School’s first graduating class began the first week of 11th grade.

Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance is catching flak from residents upset about receiving bills for ambulance services. But ambulance district residents are being advised not to pay them.