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Football: SWR caps second straight unbeaten regular season
The Shoreham-Wading River High School football team didn’t need to wear a costume for a Halloween treat on Saturday. Helmets and pads did just fine as the Wildcats romped, closing the door on their...
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J. Kings suing Riverhead Town boards over cider mill application
Food and produce processing company J. Kings has filed a lawsuit against the Riverhead Town Board and Planning Board, accusing the town of illegally stalling its application for a hard cider mill at...
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For Peconic Bay Medical Center, this man did a marathon of pushups
People love to hate pushups. And why shouldn’t they? Pushups are hard. They hurt and are difficult to execute correctly. But that didn’t stop Southold’s Jason Leonard from doing more than 500 of them...
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Driver pleads guilty to DWI charge in fatal Jamesport crash
The former Southold High School math teacher arrested following a fatal crash in Jamesport this past January pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor Driving While Intoxicated charge in connection with...
View ArticleFootball: Times set for upcoming playoff games
Top-seeded and undefeated Shoreham-Wading River will host No. 8 Bishop McGann-Mercy (4-4) in the first round of the Division IV playoffs at 1 p.m. Saturday. The game will be played at Miller Place High...
View ArticleState police: Man asks cops for help, arrested for driving drunk
A Flanders man who called for assistance from the state police was arrested early Friday after troopers discovered he had been driving drunk, according to a news release. Police said Byron...
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New landlord: Riverhead’s Planned Parenthood must move
Riverhead’s Planned Parenthood will have to find a new location by next fall because its new landlord does not intend to renew the lease when it expires in September 2016. Although Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleLIVE RESULTS: Riverhead Town Election Day 2015
The polls will close at 9 p.m. on Election Day 2015 in Riverhead Town. The News-Review will be reporting live from the local election night events. Live Blog Election 2015: Riverhead Town
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Arrest made following Sunday robbery on East Main Street
Just over 24 hours after he allegedly robbed an East Main Street shop, police arrested a homeless man in connection to the incident. According to police, 24-year-old Ishmael Norris held up Demaris...
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Police searching for suspect in Aquebogue armed robbery
A mid-day robbery in Aquebogue Monday left a 28-year-old man with numerous cuts and police are searching for the suspect, Riverhead Town police said. The victim was robbed at knifepoint on Zion Street...
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Residents show support for Riverside development plan at hearing
Residents in the troubled hamlet of Riverside offered emotional pleas before the Southampton Town Board last Thursday to support the Riverside Revitalization Action Plan. At the public hearing, about...
View ArticleLIVE: Town Board hearings on budget, former Court House restaurant
The Riverhead Town Board will hold a public hearing on its proposed 2016 budget at its meeting Tuesday afternoon. State law requires the board to adopt a final budget by Nov. 23. The board also has a...
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Feds: Riverhead physician assistant distributed thousands of pills in...
A physician assistant at East End Urgent and Primary Care in Riverhead was arrested by federal authorities Wednesday morning for illegally distributing thousands of prescription narcotic drug pills,...
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Here’s how Sean Walter won re-election in Riverhead
Incumbent Town Supervisor Sean Walter made history on election day Tuesday, fending off Democratic challenger Anthony Coates and edging out Republican candidate Jodi Giglio to win reelection on a...
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Walter toasts to victory in three-way Riverhead supervisor’s race
In the end, it wasn’t about how many, or which, political parties endorsed him. Or which didn’t endorse him. It wasn’t about how much money he raised or how many outside dollars were — or weren’t —...
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GOP candidates won big — but not all had party support
Democrat Diane Wilhelm ran unopposed for town clerk. Republican Supervisor Sean Walter retained his seat, though he ran on the Conservative Party line. But aside from that, Riverhead Republicans swept...
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Court House restaurant demolition on hold, for now
The dilapidated former Court House restaurant on Griffing Avenue won’t be demolished just yet. The Riverhead Town Board on Wednesday agreed to a “settlement” with property owner Lyle Pike, which would...
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A ‘grand, triumphant return’ for RFCT
Riverhead Faculty Community Theatre has long been a labor of love for its members. They see is as a way to work with friends on a creative project, bring a little culture to the area and, of course,...
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Prosecutors on Troyan case: 60,000 pills; 20 co-conspirators; $1.8 million in...
The investigation into Riverhead physician assistant Michael Troyan began following a complaint from a surgeon that one of his patients re-opened stitches with a pencil following a tonsillectomy...
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Drone company hopes to ‘slow down’ approval of EPCAL plan
Luminati Aerospace wants to “slow down” the approval process for the Enterprise Park at Calverton’s subdivision plan since the company is interested in using the property’s abandoned western runway....
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