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Downtown restaurant Joe’s Garage set for March 20 opening
Joe’s Garage is opening on March 20 on Peconic Avenue. Credit: Barbaraellen Koch. After months of waiting, downtown Riverhead’s newest restaurant — Joe’s Garage and Grill — is finally ready to open its...
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Update: Naked L.I.E. man taken to Stony Brook Medical Center
New York State Police and Suffolk County Police in Manorville on Thursday responding to an incident on the LIE. (Credit: Jennifer Gustavson) A 46-year-old naked man found in the center median of the...
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Suffolk County reports surge in heroin-related deaths
Baggies of Hollywood-branded heroin seized by the East End Drugs Task Force during an investigation into a Riverhead drug ring. (Credit: Paul Squire) Last week’s crackdown on a heroin ring brought to...
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Two Riley Ave. students return to school after knife scheme
Riley Avenue Elementary School. Barbaraellen Koch photo Two Riley Avenue Elementary School students who brought a knife to school and were accused of plotting an attack on a fellow second-grader in...
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East End cull starts; Riverhead properties OK’d for hunt
After months of debate and a failed lawsuit filed by opponents of the plan, a deer cull kicked off this week across multiple private properties on eastern Long Island, as parcels in Southold,...
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EPCAL drug research facility vote delayed yet again
NEWS-REVIEW FILE PHOTO | Riverhead Town Hall on Howell Avenue. There’s still no verdict on whether the Riverhead Zoning Board of Appeals will allow a $10 million addiction research and treatment...
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Sunday sales at deli to benefit Wading River family
Wading River Deli will donate the proceeds from sales made this Sunday to the Dalecki family, who lose their Wading River home in a fire earlier this month. (Paul Squire photo) If you find yourself...
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Girls Track: Mercy’s Tuthill wins state medal with relay team
From left, Section XI’s triumphant distance-medley relay team of Bishop McGann-Mercy’s Meg Tuthill, Copiague’s Nickeela Austin, Bayport-Blue Point’s Courtney Dooley and Connetquot’s Erin Melly....
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Gustavson: In the end, the deer will outlive us all
Deer on the East End. (Credit: James Colligan) We surrender. Bambi has won the war. The several thousand dollars we invested in new landscaping in our back yard is slowly but surely serving as the...
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Survey says? Why people go to downtown Riverhead
The corner of Roanoke Avenue and East Main Street downtown. (Credit: Tim Gannon) Sixty nine percent of the people who go to downtown Riverhead do so in order to go out to eat, and 42 percent of them...
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Week in Review: Bus barn, dinosaurs and NJROTC
Civic leader Vince Taldone and Flanders resident Carl Iacone at a Riverhead school board meeting last year (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) Here are some of the Riverhead stories you may have missed...
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Forward Living: No time like now to (re)learn life’s lessons
I arranged to meet my son Greg at the baggage claim area when I landed in San Francisco. While intently searching the conveyer belt for my luggage, I had one eye out for Greg. I spotted my luggage, but...
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SWR supe to discuss 2014-15 budget Tuesday night
Shoreham-Wading River Superintendent Steven Cohen (Credit: Jennifer Gustavson, file) Shoreham-Wading River Superintendent Steven Cohen is expected to discuss his preliminary budget for the 2014-15...
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Congressman Bishop seeks feedback on raising minimum wage
Tim Bishop speaking with a group of North Fork residents in 2012. (Credit: Beth Young photo) Congressman Tim Bishop (D-Southampton) is asking for feedback on whether or not residents in the First...
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Smoking on SCCC campus may be banned
Entrance to the Eastern Campus of the Suffolk County Community College. (Credit: Gayle Sheridan) While the Suffolk County Legislature has been considering increasing the age for everyone throughout the...
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Town gets 9 responses for energy proposals
Riverhead Town received 5 renewable energy proposals and 4 proposals for peak plants. The Town Board last week received four responses to a request for proposals for peak energy plants or energy...
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Long Island aquarium announces its April schedule
The Long Island Aquarium announced its April lineup, which is filled with family-friendly events. Check it out on northforker.com.
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Cull opponents reload; second lawsuit planned
USDA sharpshooters reportedly started culling the deer herd on private land early last week. (Credit: Mike Tessitore/Hunters for Deer) After recent litigation against Southold Town was dismissed,...
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Dock to Dish expanding community-supported fishery
Montauk Captain Bruce Bethwith is one of about 35 fishermen working with Dock to Dish initiative, whose founders have announced a new pickup location on the North Fork. (Credit: Dock to Dish, courtesy)...
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Michael Zaleski named Riverhead Town employee of the year
Highway Department maintenance mechanic Michael Zaleski, second from right, was presented with Riverhead Town’s 2013 Employee of the Year award at the Feb. 19, 2013 Town Board meeting. His wife, Kim,...
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