Community News

Hawk Woodson, remembered by many as "Mr. Riverhead" was a local icon, a lifelong Riverhead resident who touched generations with his easy smile and kind words.

An airstrip at the Enterprise Park in Calverton is now set up and ready for an eight day, eighth-mile drag racing series, called “Race Track, Not Street," starting this Saturday and running through the next four weekends.

Six teams faced off in the popular Stop the Violence Basketball Tournament this weekend in Riverhead. Photos.

Since his transplant surgery five years ago, Ed Schaefer of Riverhead must take medication to prevent his body from rejecting his transplanted heart. Though he had both doses of the Moderna vaccine, he has no COVID antibodies because of his meds. That leaves him in a very vulnerable place as the virus surges anew.

"Bubbelpalooza" returns to Alive on 25 tonight, part of a special "Kids Zone" in Grangebel Park, which will include activities, an LED show by Team Fun Circus and kids' movies. Plus on Main Street: Live music on six stages, craft beverages, food trucks, street dining and vendors, 5-9:30 p.m. in downtown Riverhead.

A large crowd lined the downtown Riverhead dock to cheer the paddlers, who raced in homemade boats made only with cardboard, duct tape and paint. Lots of photos from Saturday's event.

Paddle Battle, an annual competition for paddle board, kayak and canoe enthusiasts to raise funds for the New York Marine Rescue Center, took place on the Peconic River in Riverhead Saturday.

The Big Duck, the historic roadside icon on Flanders Road, celebrated its 90th birthday Saturday with an event hosted by Friends of the Big Duck, the landmark’s stewardship organization.

The Jamesport Fire Department parade, a North Fork summertime favorite, drew a large crowd to the Jamesport hamlet to watch 40 fire departments and a host of community groups march along Main Road.

The portion of Marcy Avenue in front of Polish Hall will now be known as Ziggy’s Way in honor of the late Riverhead postmaster and longtime Polish Hall President Zbigniew “Ziggy” Wilinski.