Riverhead Schools

Riverhead Central School District taxpayers will vote Feb. 25 on the district’s $97 million capital plan to expand and improve school facilities in an effort to address the needs of the growing student population.

Riverhead school board members and district officials faced intense questioning and criticism from community members last night in the first community forum convened on the district's $100 million construction bond proposal.

Veteran Riverhead elementary teacher Gary Karlson has been named assistant principal at Aquebogue Elementary School.

Riverhead Town police confirmed that a report was made Tuesday morning of an incident that occurred on Sept. 22 where two men in their 30s were taking video of two girls in a driveway on Schultz Road in Manorville.

First-graders enrolled in a summer program for English as a New Language students had a visit from a local book illustrator who read them one of the books she has illustrated.

An uninvolved public and the district's rubber-stamp school board foster a system lacking in oversight and accountability — and one that's destined to fail.

The Riverhead Central Faculty Association said it sold 1,100 tickets to the Harlem Wizards game that pitted the razzle-dazzle basketball team against Riverhead teachers, staff and administrators.

Riverhead teachers take on the Harlem Wizards Thursday evening at the high school in a madcap game of hoops spectators won't soon forget. Tickets are still available.