North Fork Spanish Apostolate

The sign on the office door still reads 'Margaritaville," but the wind of change blows through the halls of the former North Fork Spanish Apostolate, which the late Sr. Margaret Smyth ran for 23 years until her death in December. Now the Social Parish and Food Pantry, the organization is under new management.

Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, who ran the North Fork Spanish Apostolate for more than 20 years, died at her home in Riverhead. She was 83 years old.

The North Fork Spanish Apostolate partnered with National Grid and Northwell Health on Thursday to give food and flu shots to needy families ahead of the holiday season.

The Salvadoran-American community is celebrating the canonization of St. Oscar Anulfo Romero, an archbishop martyred in 1980. Romero was saying Mass a cancer hospital when he was shot and killed. He had been a spiritual leader who worked for social justice and peace in the war-torn country.

The live Way of the Cross re-enacts the stations of the cross, depicting each of the steps in the journey Christ took to his crucifixion on Good Friday.

Several town board members feel that Riverhead's policies regarding undocumented immigrants are too similar to the laws in San Francisco that kept a man from being deported before he allegedly killed a woman last Wednesday.

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of New York presented the North Fork Spanish Apostolate with a community grant for $25,000 on Friday, May 15. The grant...