Riverside

A 24-year-old man suffered a head wound in a machete attack by another man on Pine Street in Riverside Friday afternoon, police said. The attacker was arrested late that night after a standoff with police and is being held on $50,000 bail.

Supervisor Tim Hubbard offered Southampton officials Riverhead’s help to revise its Riverside development plans, including partnering on a market and demographic study. He also asked that the proposed Riverside sewer district take in the county facilities there.

Southampton Town Police have charged a Riverside man with criminal trespass after they found him within a closed business on Enterprise Zone Drive in Riverside last night, according to a police press release.

A 20-year-old man was arrested on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of another man in Riverside yesterday afternoon.

A woman is facing a felony robbery charge and other charges after she slapped and kicked a clerk at a Peconic Avenue gas station in Riverside Friday morning, Southampton Town Police said in a press release Saturday.

The $5 million appropriation is targeted for construction of the sewage treatment plant, which will cost an estimated $20 million to build. Covering the cost of construction with grants is crucial, Southampton Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said.

The wastewater treatment plant is essential to the implementation of the Riverside Action Plan, a revitalization plan adopted by the Southampton Town Board in 2015 and codified in a zoning overlay district that same year, that calls for high-density mixed-use development in portions of the hamlet.

A Riverside man was arrested on drug charges following a traffic stop on Route 105 and Flanders Road early this morning, when he was found in possession of heroin and cocaine, according to a Southampton Police press release.

Local residents again voiced objections — this time at a ZBA hearing Thursday night — to a proposed 7-Eleven gas station and convenience store on the Riverside roundabout, where a blighted, long-abandoned gas station now stands.

Southampton Town Police said they located the suspect in the area of the 495 service road in Calverton last night after the stole an idling vehicle at a gas station on the Riverside traffic circle.