Riverhead Town Board

A lieutenant and two new sergeants were sworn in last night at town hall, where the town also honored its employee of the year for 2014, and held a very lengthy hearing on an alleged unsafe structure built atop a Baiting Hollow home.

Riverhead Parks and Recreation Superintendent Ray Coyne says Stotzky Park and other facilities are in dire need of repair, but there's no money to do all that's needed.

Split board approves department consolidation, 7 employee promotions and/or raises; town planner's retirement, payout made official.

Longtime Riverhead Planning Board member Lyle Wells was replaced yesterday by the Riverhead Town Board, a move which he said took him by surprise.

New waterways regulations aimed at moving the activity of Flyboard Long Island out of a downtown Riverhead cove stalled again yesterday when a majority of the town board voted to table a resolution scheduling a public hearing on the measure.

Six of the 13 longtime Riverhead Town employees who retired this year after accepting a retirement incentive package attended ceremonies at town hall yesterday. Photos.

Greg Fischer files notice of claim, seeks to enjoin sale of Second Street firehouse and $10 million in punitive damages.

The town board, as a tax-saving measure, is looking bill for ambulance services provided to the victims of the 1,000 car accidents in Riverhead each year.

Council members Jodi Giglio and George Gabrielsen say Supervisor Sean Walter sought to abolish personnel department to punish department head for blowing the whistle on financial administrator, who "has the supervisor's ear," according to Gabrielsen.

Riverhead's 'Supervisor for a Day" presided over Wednesday's town board meeting, where the board: held a hearing on the 2015 budget, set a Dec. 2 hearing on the issue of private roads maintenance by the highway department, authorized a $350,000 grant application for WaterFire Riverhead and more.