A peek inside this week’s News-Review
Check out all these stories an more in this week’s issue of the Riverhead News-Review, on newsstands now
NEWS
$78.4 mil bond plan showcased to board
Riverhead school board members got their first glimpse Tuesday of the findings of the Community Partnership for Revitalization committee — the group of community members, teachers and administrators tasked with devising a plan for districtwide infrastructure improvements.
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A painful twist of fate is flood victim’s saving grace
Seven months after Ivory Brown and her frail, 90-year-old father escaped unharmed from a flood that destroyed her recently renovated Horton Avenue home, she got a call from one of her neighbors.
Page 1, Posted online May 26
One new restaurant has just opened in downtown Riverhead. And another is on the way.
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GOP lines up incumbents for ’11 races
Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter came out swinging against his Democratic opponent last Thursday night while accepting the Riverhead Republican Party’s nomination to run in November for a second-term in the town’s highest office.
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Supe: Investigation will result in harsh discipline
There is currently more than one investigation going on in Town Hall into the conduct of Riverhead Town employees, the News-Review has learned.
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Motorcyclist killed in Route 58 crash
A 37-year-old motorcyclist who had just moved to Riverhead from Rocky Point was killed last Thursday night after striking an SUV at the intersection of Route 58 and Kroemer Avenue in Riverhead, authorities said.
Page 4, Posted online May 21, updated May 25
Extra! Extra! See who bought a car
It wasn’t the kind of stuff that would elicit a wide-eyed “Oh, wow! Are you kidding?” response on Antiques Roadshow, but when an Aquebogue family selling their 98-year-old mother’s bayfront house cleaned out the property they came across a bit of treasure of the historic, if not financially valuable, kind.
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BUSINESS
Docs: Banding together will cut costs
The East End Health Alliance — a group comprising three East End hospitals — has begotten a new physicians network known as Physician Hospital Organization that could bring better coordination of patient care to the area, Dr. Scott Sheren of East End Eye Associates announced last week.
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OPINION
How the town should handle ‘probing’ questions
There’s some trouble in Riverhead Town Hall, with more than one internal investigation into possible employee misconduct …
Guest Spot: We must pass the state tax cap test
Painful property tax increases could cease if state legislators wholeheartedly enacted Governor Cuomo’s property tax cap that limits annual property tax increases to 2 percent.
SPORTS
Pair of one-goal wins sends SWR back to championship
The sixth seed in high school girls lacrosse isn’t supposed to pose much of a threat to the top-seeded teams. Then again, the sixth seed isn’t often a four-time defending state champion.
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