Jerry Halpin

Shake Shack opened its first East End location today at Tanger in Riverhead, with opening-day sales supporting a local food pantry.

Riverhead High School Key Club members turned a safety concern along the Peconic River into a service project.

Excerpt: Riverhead Supervisor Jerry Halpin says an early retirement incentive could save taxpayers money and create advancement opportunities for town employees, but some Town Board members say the proposal needs public discussion and more detail.

Suffolk and Riverhead officials are demanding Navy action on groundwater contamination spreading from the former Grumman site in Calverton.

Halpin says freight rail and manufacturing should shape EPCAL’s future, but litigation and unanswered questions still cloud the site’s path forward.

OLA urged Riverhead to consider a public safety law tied to ICE activity the organization is asking all East End towns and villages to adopt.

Halpin is positivity in motion at Town Hall. But Election ’26 is already underway, and this supervisor term is a one-year sprint.

Riverhead’s new supervisor Jerry Halpin chaired his first Town Board meeting Tuesday, sailing through a lengthy start-of-the year organizational agenda.

Supervisor Jerry Halpin took the oath of office as Riverhead Town’s 65th supervisor Thursday afternoon at Town Hall, where a standing-room-only crowd packed the meeting room to witness the formal swearing-in of the town’s newly elected officials

Supervisor-elect Jerry Halpin, the pastor of a church he founded with his wife in 2004, will be a different kind of supervisor. He shared his thoughts on lessons he learned from more than two decades in ministry and how he'll approach the sometimes treacherous waters of local politics.