Flag Day

Riverhead students selected by their teachers as winners of the Riverhead Elks Lodge annual Flag Day essay contest were honored by the lodge and town officials Saturday at the lodge's annual Flag Day ceremony.

The history of the American flag was the topic of the day today at ceremonies outside Pulaski Street School, where the Suffolk Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution helped students celebrate the 240th birthday of the flag.

A 30-minute Flag Day ceremony at Pulaski Street School brought 239 years of history to the fifth-graders.

Flag Day is coming and in Riverhead the annual salute to Old Glory includes an elementary school essay contest and program sponsored by the...

Did you know that, when Francis Scott Key penned “The Star Spangled Banner” in 1814, he was really writing about an American flag with 15 stripes, not 13?

Today is Flag Day, a day set aside to honor the U.S. flag. Here's a brief history of the Star Spangled banner and the holiday commemorating it.

'What the American Flag Means to Me' was the subject of a Flag Day essay contest sponsored by the Riverhead Elks Lodge. Essay winners read their essays aloud at ceremonies today, which also featured a talk by Iraq war hero Sam Cila.