Business
Downtown Riverhead is getting a new coffee shop: Mugs on Main plans to be open by April
Jeff Schaeffer and Kasandra Watkins, a certified coffee master, are opening Mugs on Main, where customers can relax with a fresh-brewed mug of custom-roasted coffee in a café atmosphere.
Business
‘Takkii Ramen’ Japanese noodle house plans fall opening in downtown Riverhead
Takkii Ramen, a privately owned small chain with locations in Pennsylvania, Syosset and Smithtown, plans to open a new restaurant on West Main St., just west of Griffing Avenue this fall.
Guest Column
To improve Riverhead’s image, we must do a better job of keeping streets and private properties clean
Guest column: People associate excessive litter with lack of social control and management, which breeds a sense of insecurity. The perception of Riverhead is that it is dirty and dangerous.
Government
Riverhead aims to make downtown more ‘family friendly’ with new zoning and laws to crack down on unwanted behavior
Riverhead is hoping to make its downtown area more “family friendly” with changes to town code that will ban certain uses in a new overlay district and beef up the town’s existing “Zero Tolerance Zone” rules, creating new offenses with criminal penalties and increasing penalties for some violations already on the books.
Community News
Santa Claus is coming to town: Christmas parade and bonfire set in downtown Riverhead Saturday
Holiday celebrations continue in downtown Riverhead tomorrow afternoon with the Lion’s Club 70th Annual Christmas Parade, followed by a roaring bonfire on the Peconic Riverfront featuring caroling, hot cocoa, candy canes and a chance for the kids to visit with Santa Claus in his gingerbread house.
Community News
Crowd fills Riverhead’s new town square for tree-lighting event Sunday evening : photo slideshow
A crowd filled Riverhead's new town square Sunday evening to celebrate the holiday season and enjoy the inaugural lighting of the Colorado blue spruce Christmas tree bedecked with festive decorations and a thousand colorful lights, standing tall near the center of the square.
Community News
Downtown tree-lighting postponed to Sunday due to weather forecast
The downtown Riverhead tree-lighting event has been postponed to Sunday. The schedule of events remains the same.
Business
End of an era on Main Street: Balzano brothers, barbering for more than half a century, to retire: ‘It’s time for...
Barbers named Balzano have been clipping hair and shaving faces in downtown Riverhead for 62 years. But come Jan. 28, brothers Tony and Andy will be giving their last haircuts at the barbershop opened by their father Jerry in 1970, when he moved the business from the Peconic Avenue shop he opened in 1960.
Business
A new restaurant, Perla Restaurant and Bar, to open at former PeraBell location on Main Street
A new restaurant is readying to open up at the East Main Street site formerly occupied by PeraBell Food Bar.
Community News
Riverhead’s town square is now home to donated 18-foot spruce; Dec. 3 tree-lighting planned
The Colorado blue spruce will grow to be about 50 feet tall, said Jim Warner of Warner Nursery, which donated the tree to the town. “Every town needs a Christmas tree,” he said.