1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (114+ words) RiverheadLOCAL Now more than ever, local news matters. Riverhead’s Polish Town was filled with music, food, dancing and red-and-white pride Saturday as the annual Polish Town Fair opened under sunny skies and pleasant summer temperatures. The two-day festival, a Riverhead…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (588+ words) Southampton Town Planning Board members closed a public hearing Thursday night on a long-pending proposal to build a 7-Eleven convenience store and gas station at the Riverside traffic circle, but left the written comment period open for 30 days because of…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (269+ words) Suffolk County health officials reported 25 additional mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus, including one collected in Aquebogue. The samples were Culex pipiens-restuans mosquitoes, according to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services. The positive samples were collected…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (857+ words) One hundred years ago today, an express train from New York bound for Greenport, derailed in Calverton and crashed into a building that stood along the track, killing six people and injuring many others. Railroad Museum of Long Island President…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (877+ words) The Long Island Lights tour offers a close-up view of landmarks that helped guide commerce, war and federal power on Long Island Sound. From the deck of the Sea Jet, the lighthouses appear one by one: small white towers, iron…...

4+ day, 5+ min ago   (92+ words) RiverheadLOCAL Now more than ever, local news matters. The first of two free concerts presented by Riverhead Chamber of Commerce in Grangebel Park takes place this evening. Playback will perform 1980s new wave music in the park from 5 to 9 p.m. The second…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (703+ words) With measles cases rising across the country, New York’s top health official on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s call to eventually administer measles, mumps and rubella vaccines separately rather than solely through the combined MMR vaccine, saying the change would…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1493+ words) Riverhead officials are working on revisions to the town’s battery energy storage code after new disclosures that groundwater near the site of a 2023 East Hampton battery storage fire has been contaminated with PFAS compounds. Council Member Ken Rothwell, who was…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (481+ words) The former Grace Episcopal Church in Riverhead, once slated for demolition by the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, was rededicated by the diocese Sunday as the home of Iglesia San Francisco. “The celebration follows an extensive renovation project that has…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (779+ words) Riverhead taxpayers should not have to wait until their next tax bill arrives to find out what their Town Board has agreed to pay in a tax certiorari settlement. But the resolution did not say what the board agreed to....