Grangebel Park

One of the latest additions to the public art display in Grangebel Park,is a submarine sculpture made by Clayton Orehek located in the Peconic River. Photo Alek Lewis

The town will likely issue an RFP for a new concession license for the historic pump house at Grangebel Park.

Security cameras will first be installed in the Grangebel Park and Railroad Avenue areas and technology installed in police headquarters to monitor the video feed.

Riverhead Police detectives are investigating an apparent drowning in the Peconic River in Grangebel Park this afternoon.

Police Officer Richard Freeborn and Trooper Michael Masino entered the Peconic River behind 57 W. Main Street to retrieve an unresponsive man found floating face down in the water Wednesday evening. They pulled him to shore and revived him with CPR.

“Reflections,” a monthly art and light festival will feature a number of original works of art, illuminated for nighttime enjoyment, in and along the Peconic River in Grangebel Park.

With towns across Suffolk County battling a worsening crisis of opioid addiction, two local organizations are planning a candlelight vigil in Grangebel Park Sunday night for the victims of the crisis and their families.

Grangebel Park’s gravel paths, constructed in 2010 and destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, have been ripped out and replaced with asphalt walkways.

"We need to stand together as a community in offering our sorrow and prayers to those who lost their lives and to all those wounded from this senseless act of violence," said Connie Lassandro, chairperson of the Anti-Bias Task Force.

Life gets in the way of art sometimes. That’s what happened this year to Samantha Neukirch, who intended to install the mural she created for...