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Wine and beer shop set to open in downtown Riverhead
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Vine & Hops Café is expected to open on East Main Street in downtown Riverhead later this summer. A Jamesport couple plans to open a new wine, beer and coffee shop called Vines...
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Peconic Community School expanding, moving to Aquebogue
COURTESY PHOTO | From left, Patricia Eckardt, Sharon Cook, Kathryn Casey Quigley, Colleen Hanley, Liz Casey Searl and Alison Aldredge. Peconic Community School officials have announced the school is...
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North Fork farmers say corn crops OK fas season begins
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Ed Harbes picks super sweet corn Wednesday afternoon at Harbes Family Farm in Mattituck. Corn on the cob lovers can breathe a sigh of relief: despite the wet weather of recent...
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Jamesport doc’s memoir tells tale of insurgency in WWII
COURTESY PHOTO | Dr. Peter Badmajew and his first wife, Antonina Soszka-Badmajew, beside the Baltic Sea in 1951. The two had met through common friends who were insurgents during the uprising. It was...
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Police: Flanders man caught driving drunk in East Quogue
A Flanders man was arrested early Friday morning for driving drunk along Lewis Road in East Quogue, according to a Southampton Town police press release. Gerson Ruiz, 21, was initially pulled over for...
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$5.5 mil rail spur in Calverton has just one customer right now
TIM GANNON PHOTO | The rail spur runs along Connecticut Avenue and into the EPCAL site. The $5.5 million restoration of the rail spur into the Enterprise Park at Calverton was hailed by politicians...
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New standards announced for school vending machines
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | An ice cream dispensing machine in the cafetorium at Riverhead Middle School. Junk food and sugary drinks will be banned from school vending machines across the U.S. by...
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Health Column: Do’s and don’ts for summer sunscreens
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | Summertime at Iron Pier Beach in Northville. It’s Fourth of July weekend and locals and visitors alike are touring grapevines and splashing in local waters – marking the...
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Parpan Column: Best of times, worst of times in Riverhead
I often tell people there’s no greater place to cover news than in Riverhead. This town has it all: diversity, a downtown in flux, agriculture, silly politics, great local sports and loyal residents...
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Former LI Aquarium official to head Stony Brook’s new marine science center
COURTESY PHOTO | Christopher Paparo, former senior aquarist of Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead has been hired as the director of Stony Brook University’s new Marine Sciences Center in Southampton....
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Supervisor hopes to curb tree cutting along Route 58
TIM GANNON PHOTO | Excavation at the site of a future Costco on Route 58 stretches up to neighboring homes in Foxwood Village. With developers of four large commercial projects clearing trees from...
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Still no arrests in hit and run that left Riverhead woman clinging to life
COURTESY PHOTO | Ashley Johnson with her father Dwayne in the Tampa airport about two weeks before the accident. A Riverhead native remains in critical condition after a hit and run accident in Tampa,...
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Church hosts fundraiser featuring famous Cornell BBQ sauce
CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | Thirteen-year-old Justin Lowe digs in at Old Steeple Community Church’s annual chicken BBQ fundraiser. Nothing says Fourth of July weekend like a good old fashion barbecue and...
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After 30 years, ADD still makes a difference for disabled
COURTESY PHOTO | ADD clients in the special sensoray garden in Northbille on Sound Shore Road. It was 1983 when Don Rieb decided to make a career move that changed everything for so many people. The...
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Firefighters battle house fire on Sound Shore Road
CYNDI MURRAY PHOTO | Riverhead fire officials were battling a house fire on Sound Shore Road in Riverhead Sunday evening. Riverhead firefighters extinguished a house fire on Sound Shore Road in...
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Drunken driving, drug arrests in Riverhead over holiday week
At least five people were arrested on drunken driving or drug charges in Riverhead over the holiday week, according to town police records, though an arrest log at police headquarters didn’t list any...
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NYS Assembly kills bill extending striped bass season
MELANIE DROZD PHOTO | A striped bass caught recently in Peconic Bay. A New York Senate bill to extend the striped bass season by two weeks went belly-up after it failed to make it through an Assembly...
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Flanders deli worker forks over $4,700 in phone scam
An employee at a Flanders business was tricked into paying nearly $4,700 to a man who called the business last week saying was with a money transfer company and that the business owed him money,...
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Girls Basketball: Blue Waves building toward future in summer league
ROBERT O’ROURK PHOTO | Riverhead junior Joanna Messina shoots a jumper against Longwood Monday in the Town of Brookhaven Summer League. As Riverhead coach David Spinella looked onto the court Monday...
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Flanders ambulance seeks volunteers, especially drivers
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO The Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps is in need of volunteers, especially ambulance drivers. Wayne Ehlers, the ambulance chief, and Joe Colao, an EMT, made...
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