Riverhead Town Board

Luminati Aerospace was deemed 'qualified and eligible' for a runway use agreement at the Calverton Enterprise Park during Wednesday's town board meeting; also- shotgun hunting for deer, ambulance billing, budget and more.

News analysis: The time for making tough decisions about the 2016 town budget is passing quickly and, once again, Riverhead Town Board members have shown no appetite for partaking in the budget process in any serious way.

After a heated discussion with residents who oppose it, the town board green-lights a new location for the medical marijuana dispensary coming to Riverhead.

Riverhead officials will hear public comment tonight on a proposed local law authorizing the town board to override the state-imposed property tax cap for fiscal year 2016.

Riverhead town board candidates faced off in the first debate of the election season since the Republican slate was set by a party primary...

At Wednesday night's meeting, the town board authorized bow-hunting for deer on certain town-owned properties Oct. 5 - Dec. 6, added four more Baiting Hollow roads to the town's list of "189 roads," authorized an ad for a junior civil engineer, and backed out of a deal to sell the historic East Lawn building.

Facing Riverhead officials' insistence that the former Blockbuster Video site on Route 58 is inappropriate for a medical marijuana dispensary, Columbia Care officials agreed to explore alternatives.

Riverhead Town Board members say the financial administrator, WIlliam Rothaar, did not disclose his past connection to the new CPA's disgraced and disbanded firm, Miller, Lilly and Pearce, which was involved in the scandal at the Roslyn school district, where Rothaar was district treasurer.

But Riverhead officials agreed to meet Thursday with representatives of Columbia Care NY to discuss concerns about the medical marijuana dispensary proposed for the former Blockbuster Video site on Route 58.

The owner of the dilapidated and long-vacant restaurant site on the corner of Griffing and Railroad avenues has until Sept. 12 to remedy conditions deemed unsafe by the Riverhead fire marshal, according to Riverhead deputy town attorney Dan McCormick.