Riverhead High School

Two Riverhead students had their short films selected to screen at the 17th Annual Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons. The students tell their stories of coming to the U.S. from Central America.

The Riverhead Board of Education voted unanimously tonight to fund spring interscholastic sports, music and high school clubs. The cost of the reinstated programs will be paid out of the 2020-2021 budget line for health insurance expenses, after health insurance costs proved to be lower than the amount budgeted.

As the pandemic grinds on, Riverhead High School seniors, disconnected from each other and without access to typical extracurricular activities in this year of austerity, are watching their final year of high school slip through their fingers.

Four Riverhead High School students have been selected to perform at the prestigious New York State Music Association All-State Festival.

Olivia Collins, 16, of Wading River, a junior at Riverhead High School won the Miss Long Island Teen pageant Oct. 4.

There are 79 high school student s who have had not attended classes, either in person or remote, since the start of the school year — not 270, as a school board member said last week.

A Riverhead High School student has tested positive for COVID-19, the school district announced on its website this afternoon in a letter from Interim Superintendent Christine Tona.

A Riverhead High School student has tested positive for COVID-19 and a staff member at Aquebogue Elementary School has developed symptoms of the disease and is awaiting a test result, the Riverhead Central School District said in an announcement posted on the district website this evening.

Mason Maggio, RHS Class of 2008, was a two-day champion on the popular quiz show this week. He racked up more than $44,000 in winnings. The Flanders native, 30, now lives in Los Angeles, where he’s pursuing a career as a songwriter.

Riverhead High School students and football players Andrew MacGray, right, Mike Pace, left, and Mike McLean are organizing a rally July 25 to urge voters to pass the school budget.