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Gianna Volpe

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Gianna Volpe is an award-winning multimedia journalist and host of the Heart of The East End morning show at WLIW-FM.
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Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch renews push for new charter high school in Riverhead

by Mar 18, 2013
  Plans for the first charter high school on Long Island live on. Timothy Hill Children's Ranch executive director Thaddeus Hill told RiverheadLOCAL...
2013 0318 otters

Aquarium announces contest to name the four baby river otters born there last month

by Mar 18, 2013
  The Long Island Aquarium is holding a contest to name the four baby North American river otters born to parents "Peanut Butter"...
2013 0311 fire

‘I lost everything, all my doggies and my cats’: stunned victim of Monday house fire

by Mar 12, 2013
It took only three hours for a fire to reduce Claudette Tuttle's home of more than three decades into a charred ruin, taking...
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Couple facing drug, weapons and child endangerment charges after police raid Riverhead home

by Mar 8, 2013
Two Riverhead residents are facing weapons and drug charges following the execution of a search warrant by Riverhead Town Police and the East...
2013 0301 suffolk theater ribbon cutting

After being dark for 26 years, a restored Suffolk Theater reopens to cheers & new downtown hopes

by Mar 1, 2013

The red tape it took to restore and reopen Riverhead's depression-era movie palace, the Suffolk Theater, was symbolically cut through Friday morning when owners Bob and Dianne Castaldi cut a big red ribbon to mark the theater's grand reopening.