Learn about slavery on the North Fork from the mid-1600s until N.Y. abolition in 1827

The Riverhead Town Board is ready to approve the preliminary site plans for a five-story mixed-use addition to the Suffolk Theater and a four-story mixed-use building on McDermott Avenue. Town Board members agreed during a work session on Wednesday to vote to approve the plans at their upcoming regular meeting...

Riverhead firefighters made a quick stop of a fire in a house on Peninsula Path off Merritts Pond in Riverhead last night. A family of four was safely evacuated without injury, Riverhead Fire Chief Joe Hartmann said. One firefighter was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of a...

Riverhead has been named to Forbes’ list of the top 50 travel destinations for 2023. Riverhead is one of 11 U.S. destinations named to the Forbes top 50 destinations list this year. The U.S. destinations named to the list, which is presented in by Forbes in alphabetical order:. Athens,...

Warren Kappenberg of Baiting Hollow died on Jan. 29, 2023 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 75 years old. He was born on April 26, 1947 in Yonkers, New York to Alice and Herbert Kappenberg. He graduated from Riverhead High School in 1965. He attended Hudson Valley Community College for electronics. He served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969 as a First Lieutenant, serving in Vietnam and he received a bronze star. He then attended CW Post College. Warren served one tour in Vietnam with the First Calvary Division as a Field Artillery Officer and received a Bronze Star. Upon honorable discharge in 1969, he attended CW Post College.

A blast of arctic weather is headed this way Friday night into Saturday morning as a “ dangerously cold air mass” settles over the region, bringing with it wind chill values that may fall to as low as 15 below zero. The National Weather Service has issued a...

Residents are invited to share a cup of coffee with State Sen. Anthony Palumbo and Riverhead Town Police officers next Friday morning at the Riverhead library. Palumbo will host “Coffee with a Cop” and a “Shed the Meds” prescription drug collection in cooperation with the Riverhead Police Department on Friday, Feb. 10 from 10 a.m. until 12 noon at Riverhead Free Library.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Riverhead Town Police are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate a woman they say used a stolen credit card to make purchases in December. The suspect used a stolen credit card to make purchases at Best Buy and Michaels, both located at...

Town officials are looking at entering into an agreement with Cousins Paintball that will allow the company to operate its paintball facility on approximately 14 to 16 acres of land inside the Enterprise Park at Calverton. The company would pay the town $5,000 per month for 11 months of operation...

Second time’s the charm. Riverhead Town officially resumed work on its comprehensive plan update this week with new planning consultants, after pausing the plan’s development for more than six months — and more than three years after first hiring a firm to work on the plan. Representatives...

Carol Marie (Burns) Talmage died at her home in Riverhead on Jan. 27, 2023. She was 90 years old. She was born in Riverhead on May 15, 1932 to Eleanor (Galow) and William Burns. She attended Riverhead schools and SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Cortland, earning a bachelor’s degree in education....

A fundraiser on the website GoFundMe has been started to aid the two women whose apartments were destroyed in a fire on Pulaski Street Wednesday morning. Bozena Mahmoud has set up the fundraising page with a goal of $20,000 to help the victims, Krystyna Borowska and Krystyna Zielinska, who lost everything in the fire.

Transfers of real estate in the Town of Riverhead and selected hamlets in the Town of Southampton reported by The Real Estate Report Inc. on Jan. 27, 2023. Richard & Linda Saladon to Ryan Smith and Amy Douglas-Smith, 54 Shade Tree Lane, $610,000, on Oct. 18, 2022. Thomas Downing and...