Alek Lewis
Reporter at RiverheadLOCAL
Journalist @RiverheadLOCAL | Past: Intern @WSHUPublicRadio, News Editor @sbstatesman | SBUSOCJ Alum | Tips to: [email protected] All opinions are my own
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riverheadlocal.com | Alek Lewis
A five-day carnival could come to Calverton this summer — and possibly many summers to come — if Riverhead Town gives it the green light. Dreamland Amusements is proposing to stage the carnival from June 25-29 on an unused grassland, between Middle Country Road and Peconic Ice Rinks, at Veterans Memorial Park.
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riverheadlocal.com | Alek Lewis
A divided Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday took the first step toward selling the historic and blighted Vail-Leavitt Music Hall to The Jazz Loft. The Town Board passed a resolution 3-2 authorizing the town attorney “to take all such actions as may be necessary and appropriate to consummate such sale” of the building to The Jazz Loft. The nonprofit organization previously restored a historic building in Stony Brook built in the 1770s and turned it into a performance venue and music museum.
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1 week ago |
riverheadlocal.com | Alek Lewis
When President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on the United States’ largest trading partners, he promised to “make America wealthy again.” The philosophy behind the administration’s tariffs, Trump and his advisors have said, is to generate revenues from imports and increase competition between American and foreign companies.
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riverheadlocal.com | Alek Lewis
The Riverhead Board of Education voted unanimously on Wednesday to send a $211 million budget for next school year to district voters for approval. The proposal for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, which starts July 1, would increase expenditures by nearly $10 million, or roughly 5% over the current budget.
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1 week ago |
riverheadlocal.com | Alek Lewis
The Long Island Science Center presented revised plans for its museum on the town square Thursday, in a bid to convince the Riverhead Town Board not to take its property using eminent domain. The presentation by the science center’s architects and its development consultant at the Town Board work session made town officials optimistic about plans for developing the blighted building at 111 East Main Street, which sits on the west side of the town square.
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Some big news for Riverhead schools!
Robert Hagan, the assistant superintendent for human resources at the Longwood Central School District, is expected to be appointed tonight as the next Riverhead school superintendent. https://t.co/SOVSYUlL5m
Did I write this story just so I could include otter puns? Maybe.
The Long Island Aquarium has launched a poll to name four baby North American river otters born earlier this year to the residents of its Otter Falls exhibit. https://t.co/i6AYdBJZIg
RT @JaysToucannon: https://t.co/Wp9lI1Iv1Z