Riverhead Democrats

After Democratic voters ousted the incumbent party chairperson and elected 10 new members to the Riverhead Town Democratic Committee in the June party primary, the newly reconstituted committee on Tuesday elected Laura Jens-Smith as its chairperson and replaced all of its other officers.

Greater efficiency and transparency in town government, the creation of a Riverhead Power Authority using solar energy generated at EPCAL, selling off 'underperforming town assets, reviewing the town's 10-year-old master plan, backing off the construction of 500 apartments on Main Street, and zoning for a movie theater on Route 58 are among the priorities the Democratic candidates for town board say they will pursue if elected.

Former Riverhead police detective Tim Hubbard told RiverheadLOCAL he is not seeking any party's nomination for town supervisor. An announcement by Riverhead Democrats this month that he was screening for the supervisor's post was made in error, party chairwoman Marge Acevedo said this weekend.