Peconic, NY

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• Riverhead Town board renames road for Heidi Behr, sets parking limits

  Riverhead Town Board last week named a roadway along the Peconic River for Heidi Behr, a popular Riverhead ambulance corps volunteer who was killed in 2005 while riding in an ambulance with a patient.The roadway, which had no name, is not actually a street   Read more »

• Cops: 3 charged with stealing lotto prize

  man out of his $74,892 lottery prize, police said Saturday.The clerks at the Valero gas station at 7 Peconic Avenue face felony charges for paying the man a fraction of his winnings from a Take 5 Quick Pick ticket, police said.When the clerks, Yalcin Nergiz,   Read more »

• Man gets alligators with his morning coffee in Calverton

  Simmons used a long catch pole to snare the alligators, and taped their jaws shut before taking them to the DEC office in Stony Brook. Eventually, the state agency plans to turn them over to the Atlantis Marine World aquarium in Riverhead.Alligators are illegal   Read more »

• Intensive search for Ashley Murray extends to fifth day

  search for missing 16-year-old Ashley Murray of Peconic extended into its fifth day with no sign of the teenager after interviews with more than 30 people and searches of more than 25 "geographical areas of interest" in Southold Town, police said Friday.Southold   Read more »

• Southold cops seek missing teen Ashley Murray

  police are looking for a missing 16-year-old girl last seen Monday at her home in Peconic .Police have issued a missing person alert for Ashley Murray, who left her home on Spring Lane at about 8 a.m. Monday, police said.Murray is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and   Read more »

Around the web

• Plein Air Exhibit

  Dodds and Eder will be hosting a wine and cheese reception on Saturday, May 18 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at their Sag Harbor location to showcase the work of Plein Air Peconic, an artist group dedicated to helping the Peconic Land Trust conserve the natural   from Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot Read more »

• Thrill Seakers Rejoice: Zip Line Planned to Begin Operation in Downtown Riverhead as Early as Next Month

  For the last year John Finnegan of Urban Jungle Zip Lines has been speaking with Councilman George Gabrielsen about installing a 900 foot zip line in Downtown Riverhead along the Peconic riverfront. The proposal for the zip line hasn’t been brought to th   from LongIsland.com Read more »

• Three Held in Theft of $75,000 Lottery Ticket

  He was a Guatemalan immigrant who spoke little English and had a fondness for scratch-off lottery tickets; they were two clerks at a Long Island gas station who saw an opportunity. When the clerks scanned Marvin Choy Nij’s Take 5 lottery ticket and gave   from The New York Times Read more »

• Swamped!

  It was a picture-perfect Friday morning along the Peconic River when Frank Naase unwittingly became a member of an exclusive — and expanding — Long Island club. “Sometimes I stop by the river, get a cup of coffee and watch the water,” says Naase, 50, an   from New York Post Read more »

• preservation altercation: Proposed Sale of Development Rights in Sagaponack Draws Criticism

  The not-for-profit Peconic Land Trust is proposing to sell the development rights to land it owns in Sagaponack to Southampton Town. It wants Southampton to use Community Preservation Fund monies (real-estate-transfer-tax-funded) to purchase the rights.   from Curbed Hamptons Read more »