Sean Walter

A coalition of more than 50 environmental and civic groups has formed to get the word out that voters need to flip the ballot over and vote “yes” to extend the transfer tax this year, with a measure that will allow the East End towns to spend 20 percent of the revenues on water quality improvement projects.

After five-and-a-half years and more than $600,000, Riverhead Town is at last in the home stretch of a long, difficult and sometimes contentious process of subdividing, zoning and marketing the remaining land it owns at the former Grumman plant in Calverton.

Relations between local officials and the Federal Aviation Administration, at odds for several years over helicopter flight paths, grew even more turbulent after the two town supervisors on the North Fork yesterday accused federal regulators —and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer — of being less than forthright.

Upcoming events the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce has planned will be of interest to local business people.

A large crowd of drag racing fans rallied at Riverhead Raceway Sunday in support of a drag track on Long Island. Racing fans have long...

“We’re in dire straits,” Supervisor Sean Walter said in a phone interview this afternoon. “Everything in the water district is running flat-out right now" and the district still can't fill up its storage tanks.

Damage to the skate park's infrastructure was more extensive than either the parks department or the repair company anticipated. Total repairs costs are now estimated at around $90,000, up from $49,000.

Luminati's ultralight aircraft, capable of perpetual flight — being developed to bring internet connectivity to unserved regions of the world — also has "obvious" military applications for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance purposes. The company, now readying to move into a much larger facility at EPCAL, will seek defense contracts, its founder said.

Riverhead officials will head to Wall Street this summer, hoping to at least maintain the town's current credit rating.

With unusually large numbers of bunker fish appearing in the Peconic River this spring, commercial fishermen will be allowed to net bunker in an effort to prevent the massive bunker kills seen last year, thanks to a ruling announced today by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.