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

  – 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 beauty of the East End. The reception will showcase “At Home in the Natural World” an exhibition   from Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot Read more »

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

  have it run seven days a week from the beginning of the summer to October. The hours would be from morning until 10pm and the company predicts it’ll bring 100 people a day on weekdays and 200 on weekends. The proposed zip line has been met with some local   from LongIsland.com Read more »

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

  split the profits, which came to $48,318.27 after taxes. They were due to be arraigned on Wednesday on conspiracy and grand larceny charges, but the arraignment was postponed until next Tuesday to wait for a Turkish interpreter. The handful of Bingo and Take   from The New York Times Read more »

• Swamped!

  — Hercules, a 3-foot alligator left on the golf course — menacingly stared down a reporter, hissing as it propped itself up on a stony perch. “They are never going to be cuddly. Alligators make awful pets,” Ansell says. But to some, gators are as much a part   from New York Post Read more »

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

  and other conservation groups are calling it inappropriate. "People make contributions to the Peconic Land Trust, and the Peconic Land Trust says they are protecting farmland—they can't then come back and say the land isn't protected, so we want the CPF to   from Curbed Hamptons Read more »