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It seems that all of the parties concerned in the recent Blues Fest 2010 controversy, which was so vividly and dramatically reported in the media far and wide, can congratulate themselves on a solution that will allow the music to go on. There is a little progress in Riverhead after all.
And besides, there’s no such [...]

Downtown revitalization and rejuvenation was a hot topic this week. We had an iloveriverhead meeting on Monday evening. On Thursday, the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce held a special early morning meeting on the subject, which I attended.
iloveriverhead Meetings
We had an iloveriverhead meeting on Monday, March 8 at 7PM the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall. We were granted [...]

Downtown residents and avid gardeners Amy Davidson and Laurie Nigro would like to see a community garden somewhere downtown. Subscribers can read all about it in today’s Riverhead News-Review article here.

According to an article in this week’s Riverhead News-Review, county lawmakers may not be removing trailers that are housing the county’s homeless sex offenders after all. Meanwhile, anticipating that the county would remove the trailers, the Riverhead Town Board took action to ensure that sex offenders would not relocate to Riverhead housing. Read the full [...]

Today’s issue of the Riverhead News-Review has an article by reporter Vera Chinese about the iloveriverhead meeting on Tuesday, February 23. It highlights some of the main ideas discussed. Subscribers can read the full article here.

On its Opinion page of Thursday, February 18, the Riverhead News-Review said a civic group is crucial for downtown’s future. The editorial cited gains made by other civic groups in town. It also gave examples of issues a downtown civic group might address, such as:
- making sure planning was inclusive of all affected;
- pressuring the [...]

The Riverhead News-Review published an article today about efforts to start a downtown civic association. The full article is available on the newspaper’s website, please click here.
Reporter Vera Chinese (pronounced chin-EE-zey) did great reporting and writing, and photographer Barbaraellen Koch did the best she could with what she had to work with (i.e., Nancy and [...]

February 11, 2010
Editorial column by Michael White, Editor of Riverhead News-Review
Partially reprinted here with permission.
“It was late June 2008 when my then-fiance and I decided to take that locally famous canoe ride down the Peconic River.
The trip, not without its hiccups, took almost four hours. We were dead tired upon disembarking in downtown Riverhead. Still, [...]