Chris Kempner

Former Riverhead Community Development Agency director Chris Kempner acted as a broker for Triple Five earlier this year in the bankruptcy sale of Dowling College's Brookhaven campus, according to a report to the court filed by the college's attorneys in the bankruptcy proceeding.

Former Riverhead Community Development director Chris Kempner was charged with DWI following a crash on W. Main Street Tuesday evening. Police said she rear-ended another vehicle. Kempner's attorney says it was a "total set-up" — the other vehicle backed into her. Kempner's been followed for a couple of weeks and is the subject of an investigation involving EPCAL, the lawyer said.

Riverhead CDA director Christina Kempner is leaving her post to take a new job as director of the Stony Brook incubator.

Bernice Taylor, Chris Kempner and Juanita Hampton are being recognized by the Butterfly Effect Project Saturday for being role models for young girls to look up to.