Calverton

Students of color have gone from being the minority to the majority in 32 Long Island districts over the past 20 years, a Newsday analysis found.

Keri Lynn Stromski, a mother of three and a longtime teacher in the Riverhead School District, died last year after a 4½-year battle with breast cancer.

Eighteen Long Island school districts have frozen tax rates, and four are calling for cuts. New Suffolk and Wainscott on the East End are seeking to pierce the tax cap.

Thousands of New Yorkers, Long Islanders among them, marched Saturday to protest the potential reversal of the landmark federal law ensuring a woman's right to abortion.

Long Island's colleges and universities are planning commencement ceremonies that largely return to pre-pandemic traditions.

See the scenes from Mount Sinai's victory on Thursday.

Town and Suffolk County Water Authority officials say they have agreed in principle to connect 64 homes.

Long Island's religious communities offer a variety of events each week.

The pattern book, which the town board adopted Jan. 20, is intended to serve as a guide for future buildings in downtown Riverhead.

The group helps families in need to pay for funeral and burial services after a loved one dies from an opioid overdose.

The Heart of Riverhead Civic Association, which will launch May 14, will focus solely on issues affecting the downtown area, the group's co-founders said.

The former Abyss waterslide is now Hyperlight at Splish Splash.

Connor Murtha added three goals in Suffolk I victory over Riverhead.

See the scenes from Thursday's Suffolk matchup.

All the homes in the luxury development are designed to include solar panels.

The agency's CEO wants to collaborate with the town to "potentially reduce costs and ensure that work is completed as quickly as possible" to connect those in the Riverhead section of Manorville to public water.

"Leave the World Behind" stars Hawke, Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali.

The Suffolk County Water Authority recently received $2.7 million to connect Manorville residents in Brookhaven Town to public water, and environmental advocates want the same done for dozens of other homes near the former Grumman plant in Calverton.

The highly contagious bird flu has killed millions of birds nationwide. New York's first cases of the bird flu were confirmed Feb. 18 in a "backyard flock" of eight birds in Suffolk.

The Ridge woman crashed twice last July while taking Cub Scouts from a Calverton camp, then fled, Suffolk prosecutors said.

Miller Environmental Group failed to pay 88 employees the required prevailing wage on a January 2020 project, according to settlement with state.

The first series of the planned Saturday kickoff will now start April 9 at 11 a.m. at the airpark on Grumman Boulevard, according to race organizers.

Hundreds ran and walked Saturday in Riverhead to raise money for scholarships and scouting, and to pay tribute to Andrew McMorris, the 12-year-old Boy Scout killed in 2018 by a drunken driver.

The town board voted 5-0 to allow Riverhead to lease the Calverton property via the Industrial Development Agency to venture group Calverton Aviation and Technology in an effort to move forward with the stalled close of the $40 million sale.

The $40M sale has stalled over an impasse between the town and the state DEC over who can supply water to the property in Calverton. The town does not have a key permit to complete a subdivision for the site that is required to complete the sale.

Work will begin in the summer to transfer properties in Riverhead and Brookhaven towns whose private wells have tested positive for contaminants.

A vote had been planned on transferring the title and ownership of the Enterprise Park at Calverton to the town's Industrial Development Agency, but it was tabled after residents requested a public meeting to explain how the transfer would work.

"We're going to use that to strengthen our grant proposals to try and obtain funding for water main extensions to cover these areas impacted," said Frank Mancini, Riverhead's water district superintendent, of areas in Calverton and Manorville.  

The town board, acting as the town's Community Development Agency, said it will vote Tuesday to make an application to the town's Industrial Development Agency transferring the property's title from the Community Development Agency to the IDA.

Four events were approved over the objections of several residents who voiced concerns about noise disruptions in their neighborhoods and environmental worries regarding the events' effect on the EPCAL property.

The idyllic vision of keeping a backyard homestead sometimes does not mirror the reality of densely populated Long Island life — especially when neighbors, or owners, begin squawking along with the roosters, who are often misidentified at birth as female chicks.

Visit one of these Long Island Christmas tree farms where you can cut down your own evergreen with the family.

The Peconic River Sportsman's Club, located on land owned by Suffolk County, told a conservationist he'd have to wait until 2025 to use the site. But the club says it may open access sooner.