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Riverhead man seriously injured in apparent hit-and-run crash on CR 105 early Sunday morning
Update: 5:21 p.m. Southampton Town Police say detectives are investigating the incident as a hit-and-run accident and request that anyone with information should call the detective unit at 631-702-2230. The police issued a news release on Monday at 5:14 p.m.
Say what??? Downtown business owners react to zip line plan, and it’s not warm and fuzzy
News of the zip line ride being proposed for the Peconic Riverfront by Riverhead Councilman George Gabrielsen quickly sparked controversy this week.
Tentative plans call for the construction of a 65- to 70-foot-tall launching tower on the grass between the boardwalk and the riverfront drive on the west end of the riverfront — roughly opposite the Riverside McDonald's — and a "slightly shorter" landing tower in the municipal parking lot just west of McDermott Avenue.
Blue Masques alum directing ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ production this summer
Local woman named to LEAD New York
Riverfront zip line planned for downtown Riverhead, may begin operation as soon as next month
Adventure-seekers may soon be traversing the Peconic Riverfront on an elevated zip line, if a plan by a Westchester company is embraced by the Riverhead Town Board.
Urban Jungle Zip Lines, of North Salem, N.Y., wants to stretch a 900-foot cable high above the riverfront, stretching from a 70-foot tower on the west — roughly opposite the Riverside McDonald's — to a slightly shorter tower near McDermott Avenue.
Riverhead police: Man charged in nursery school incident was not trying to abduct a child
The 32-year-old man who was arrested Friday for trespassing on a nursery school playground and touched a child may have simply been trying to get home, according to Riverhead Town Police, who said they have determined he was not attempting to abduct the child.
Proposed food safety regs have local farmers worried about high costs of compliance
New food safety regulations may make it more difficult for smaller produce farmers to compete with the big boys, according to local farmers and the Long Island Farm Bureau.
The federal Food and Drug Administration recently extended by 120 days — to Sept. 16 — a deadline for comments on a report outlining the implementation of new federal food safety regulations, some of which could change the way local produce is grown, harvested, packed and stored.
Friends and family gather to remember murdered woman; her accused killer awaits trial
One year after the body of a Riverhead woman was discovered in a wooded area behind a Route 58 shopping plaza, the fate of her accused killer still hangs in the balance.
Guillermo Alvarado-Ajcuc, 22, is being held without bail at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverside, awaiting trial on murder and rape charges in the strangulation death of 29-year-old Mirian Yohanna Garcia Mancilla on May 6, 2012.
Aquebogue couple arrested by East End Drug Task Force on felony drug sale charges
Riverhead Town Police assisted in the East End Drug Task Force arrest of two Aquebogue residents Wednesday morning.
Jeanette Howell, 56, and Rodney Dalmida, 62, were both arrested at their Shade Tree Lane residence at 11:23 a.m. on charges of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, police said.
Muddy obstacle races test endurance, offer rugged fun at four events in Riverhead
With the second annual Survival Race set to go off at the Baiting Hollow 4-H camp tomorrow, a "Zombie Race" featuring "human obstacles" planned there for Sunday, and two more muddy obstacle challenge races scheduled in Calverton later this year — one at the end of this month and another in August — locals may be wondering what the mud run/obstacle race craze is all about.
