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Lombardi’s manager eyes September opening on Love Lane
Lombardi’s Market at Love Lane is scheduled to open by the fall. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch) Mouths are watering in anticipation of the opening of Lombardi’s Market at Love Lane —and the good news is...
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A new area code could be costly for some businesses
A handful of residents spoke at a forum Tuesday about the upcoming shortage of area codes. (Credit: Claire Leaden) The possibility of a new area code replacing 631 for part of Suffolk County may be...
View ArticleNorth Fork Roundup: Lombardi’s Market, a reunion and helicopters
Here are some of today’s top stories across the North Fork. To stay on top of local news, follow The Riverhead News-Review on Facebook. Post by The Suffolk Times. Post by northforker. Post by Riverhead...
View ArticleSouthampton Blotter: DWI arrests, $13,500 reported missing
A Riverhead man was pulled over for tailgating and was found to be intoxicated, according to Southampton Town Police. Elias Velasquez, 39, was pulled over at the intersection of Flanders Road and...
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Killer in 2012 murder sentenced to 25 years to life
Guillermo Alvarado Ajcuc was sentenced to 25 years to life Tuesday morning for the murder of Mirian Yohanna Garcia Mansilla. (Credit: James Carbone, Newsday) The sister and mother of Mirian Yohana...
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Girls Basketball: Young team starting to find its way
Riverhead freshman Faith Johnson-DeSilvia goes up for a basket Monday against Central Islip. (Credit: Bill Landon) It’s been only five months since the end of the high school basketball season, yet...
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Town revokes cab company’s permits following Sunday’s crash
A taxi cab crashed into this parked pickup truck Sunday night, officials said. (Credit: Jennifer Gustavson) A Riverhead taxi and limo company has had its permits revoked in the wake of a Sunday night...
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Councilman has change of heart on personnel moves
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | Councilman James Wooten (from left), Councilman John Dunleavy and Supervisor Sean Walter in Town Hall. Riverhead Town Board members again debated the issue of political...
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Riverhead takes aim at downtown attacks, revives Anti-Bias Task Force
After several attacks in the downtown Riverhead area this year — most of which have targeted Hispanic males — the town will revive its dormant Anti-Bias Task Force, a group ‘meant to be a proactive...
View ArticleTrack & field athletes can now wear jewelry during competition
High school track and field athletes will no longer be prohibited from wearing jewelry during competitions starting in the 2015 season, the National Federation of State High School Associations...
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Town gets green light to demo home’s addition
Eugene Lafurno pictured at his Baiting Hollow home, which he has dubbed ‘The Epiphany.’ Riverhead Town was given approval from a court last month to demolish the addition at the top of the house....
View ArticleRECAP: Board talks historic district, downtown biz expo
The Riverhead Town Board discussed on Thursday morning a proposed East End Small Business Alliance Expo on the riverfront, an effort to create a historic corridor on Main Road and other items at its...
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‘Border children’ reach Riverhead, reunite with family
Sister Margaret Smyth of the North Fork Spanish Apostolate (center) with Estabon, 16, and Pedro, 14, and their mother Marta Tuesday afternoon. (Credit: Carrie Miller) A misty Independence Day morning...
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A ‘grand old lady’ being brought back to ‘former beauty’
Suffolk County Historical Society executive director Kathy Curran in the organization’s East Wing Gallery Thursday. Workers are moving furniture and artwork into storage while the space is restored....
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Man accused of threatening woman with knife at downtown park
Milton L. Burns Park in Riverhead. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) Authorities say a Flanders man is being held in county jail on $5,000 bail after he allegedly pulled a knife on a woman and...
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Firefighters set to compete at Riverhead’s 28th annual drill
Riverhead Ironmen compete in their drill competition in July 2013. This year’s competition will be held Saturday afternoon. (Credit: Paul Squire) The Riverhead Fire Department will host its 28th annual...
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Authentic Mexican restaurant opens in downtown Riverhead
Edgar and Jasmin Diaz-Leal at their new Mexican restaurant, Taqueria Cielito Lindo, in downtown Riverhead Thursday evening. (Credit: Rachel Young) Jasmin Diaz-Leal is no stranger to the local food...
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Flanders family prepared to fight to keep roadway sign
Members of the Tocci family in front of the sign Friday afternoon. (Credit: Carrie Miller) Two weeks after posting a large sign on Flanders Road urging drivers to avoid texting and driving, a Flanders...
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Baseball: Tomcats win the hard way, after blowing 6-run lead
Riverhead’s Dan Popio slides in safely at second base while Sag Harbor second baseman Ted Shaw covers the bag. (Credit: Garret Meade) TOMCATS 9, WHALERS 8 (10 INNINGS) The Riverhead Tomcats have had...
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Column: Remove hate speech from immigration debate
Migrant farmworkers at a North Fork vineyard. (Credit: Barbaraellen Koch, file) It was a sunny August afternoon last year when we at the paper got word of police activity — a possible drug bust — in...
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