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Former Blockbuster building to get a facelift
The one-story commercial building on Route 58 that has been mostly vacant since Blockbuster closed its doors, is under new ownership and about to get facade and site improvements.
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For this Wading River man, a childhood dream of opening a plant nursery became reality
Nick Sollazzo’s dream since he was a kid was having his own plant nursery. The Wading River man’s dream became a reality with the opening of North Shore Plant Company in Aquebogue.
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Riverhead Brew House, downtown’s newest eatery, opens on the Peconic riverfront
Downtown Riverhead has a new brewery and restaurant. The Riverhead Brew House, the newest eatery by the Lily Flanagan’s Restaurant Group, is now open for business.
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PBMC receives third ‘A’ rating in a row from healthcare watchdog group
Peconic Bay Medical Center has received an “A” rating for hospital safety from The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2024 report — the third “A” rating in a row for the Riverhead hospital.
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Riverhead’s Alive on 25 returns this year with two events — and a laser light show
The Alive on 25 summer street festival will return this year with two events which will bring fireworks and, for the first time, a laser light show, to downtown Riverhead.
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‘It’s like a dream come true’: New restaurant on East Main Street opens for business
Casa Dorado Deli Taqueria, a new Latin American eatery, has opened at 221 East Main St. in downtown Riverhead. Owned by a husband and wife team, the new restaurant has been in the works for about two years.
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Mixed-use building, with apartments, retail and office space planned Calverton site
A mixed-use building with 36 apartments above retail and office space is being planned on a vacant 16-acre parcel on Middle Country Road in Calverton, according to plans posted online by a real estate agent advertising the building for lease.
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RiverheadLOCAL’s journalism honored by N.Y. Press Association in annual contest
RiverheadLOCAL won five awards and received an honorable mention in the 2023 New York Press Association Better Newspaper Contest. Here's what the judges had to say.
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Skip Barber pitches driving school for runway at EPCAL to Riverhead Town Board
Executives from Skip Barber, a racing and driving school company, pitched locating a driving school on the 10,000-foot runway to the Riverhead Town Board at the town's work session on April 18.
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‘The secret’s in the sauce’: At Polish Town pizzeria, it’s made with love
After 37 years, the owner of Carlo's Pizza Oven in Polish Town is passing the pizza peel to his protégé, Piotr Kurzyna, a 2009 Riverhead High School graduate who now owns the restaurant where he's worked since he was a teen.