Business
Building construction at Mattituck marina will require 4,500 hauler truck trips through Riverhead to remove excavated soils
Southold Town is studying the potential adverse impacts of a controversial proposal to build two large storage buildings at Strong’s Yacht Center on Mattituck Inlet that will require the transit of 135,000 cubic yards of excavated materials by tractor-trailers through the Town of Riverhead.
Government
Dunleavy: Ban trucks on town roads, except local deliveries and pickups
Chairman of the town board's traffic safety committee argues there's no need for an expensive traffic study— the solution is simple: confine heavy truck through-traffic to state and county roads in Riverhead.