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Business: B&Bs offering nuptials for couples who want to avoid ‘the hoopla’
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | The bedroom at The Farmer’s House Bed and Breakfast where couples can purchase elopement packages for a more intimate, smaller wedding. Shortly after Joyce and Robert Barry...
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Q&A: Coverdale co-chairs black, Hispanic Democratic committee
MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO | Shirley Covedale at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead property, where she’s long pushed to get an apartment complex and community center built to provide affordable housing...
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Video: Behind the scenes look at SWR construction
PAUL SQUIRE FILE PHOTO | Repairs started on the Shoreham-Wading River High School track in July. The track has since been completed. Shoreham-Wading River High School and other schools in the district...
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Cops: Report of plane crash in L.I. Sound a false alarm
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Riverhead police Sgt. John Vail (center) scans the Sound as Police Officers Christopher Parkin (left) and Rich Freeborn watch on. Police and firefighters from across the area...
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Column: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road
STEVE ROSSIN PHOTO | LIRR riders board an eastbound train out of Riverhead earlier this summer. It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the...
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Update: Mattituck man arraigned on DWI charge in Jamesport crash
JAMESPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT COURTESY PHOTO A Mattituck man has been arrested after he was involved in a two-car accident along Main Road in Jamesport where one of the vehicles flipped over and landed...
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Cops: Riverhead man caught speeding, driving drunk after fleeing accident
A 35-year-old man without a drivers license was arrested for driving while intoxicated after he hit a parked car and fled from the scene in Riverside early Sunday, Southampton Town police said. Ayala...
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Editorial: What does Labor Day mean to you?
One of the things the British get right is leaving the long weekends that begin and end summer without names weighed down with significance. Over there they’re called “bank holidays,” a generic term...
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Second ‘Arts Means Business’ forum coming to downtown Riverhead
East End Arts will present ‘Art Means Business,’ a seminar and networking party, from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead. Business owners, artists, government...
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Featured Letter: Please stop the build out of Route 58
TIM GANNON FILE PHOTO | Excavation at the site of a future Costco on Route 58. To the Editor: As election time quickly comes upon us, I urge each and every voter to get out and question those running...
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Cops: Drunken driver nearly hits pedestrian in Hampton Bays
GOOGLE MAPS | An alleged drunken driver from Aquebogue was arrested after being pulled over on Dune Road in Hampton Bays. • A 21-year-old man nearly hit a pedestrian while driving drunk in Hampton Bays...
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Two people treated for smoke inhalation after small kitchen fire
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Riverhead firefighters responded to a small kitchen fire at Riverhead Landing Tuesday afternoon. Two people, including a Riverhead Town police officer, were treated for minor smoke...
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Riverhead teen tries to escape after arraignment, held on felony charges
PAUL SQUIRE PHOTO | Authorities say Octavious Rose, 18, ran from the Riverhead police department after his arraignment Tuesday and was tackled into these bushes by a police officer. A Riverhead teen...
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Cops: Baiting Hollow man caught driving with .14 BAC
A Baiting Hollow man was caught driving drunk when he was seen weaving in and out of his lane with one of his brake lights out in Hampton Bays early Sunday, Southampton Town police said. Police spotted...
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Recap: Town Board tables vote to reject farm-clearing permit
Update: The Town Board has tabled a resolution that would have rejected a mining permit for Driftwood Family Farms in Calverton. Click the blog box at the bottom of this post to follow along. ORIGINAL...
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Neighbors: As HOA prez, Dunleavy should have protected Foxwood
TIM GANNON FILE PHOTO | The fence that runs along Foxwood Village and the Shops at Riverhead property lines just north of Route 58 in Riverhead. While Riverhead Councilman John Dunleavy has been able...
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Photos: Construction continues at new-look Riverhead H.S.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | The outside of Riverhead High School Wednesday. The front of the school will receive a major face-lift starting next summer. Riverhead High School is undergoing some major...
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Field Hockey Preview: Wildcats are focusing on finishing
ROBERT O’ROURK FILE PHOTO | Jessica McCormack, right, is one of five returning starters for Shoreham-Wading River. PREVIEW Scoring goals can be a tricky thing. And tricky can become downright...
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Featured Letter: The Town Board is full of jokes
TIM GANNON PHOTO | At the site of the Costco development, trees were cleared up to the property line of Foxwood Village. To the editor: This Town Board continues to provide an excess of comedic...
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Cops: Local men nabbed in prostitution sting
An undercover female police officer helped nab three Riverside men and two others for charges of patronizing a prostitute as part of a reverse prostitution sting Friday in the Riverside area,...
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