RiverheadLOCAL

Supervisor Jerry Halpin's tentative 2027 budget proposes $120.96 million in spending across Riverhead Town's operating funds, with a townwide tax levy increase of $1.7 million, or 2.79%.

Auditors found accounting and oversight failures involving Riverhead’s $3.575 million EPA grant to extend public water to 64 Manorville homes.

Fueled largely by property taxes, Riverhead added nearly $4.9 million to its general fund balance in 2025, giving officials a larger financial cushion as they prepare the next budget.

Two Riverhead Town Board members during last week’s work session called attention to state laws and policies they said negatively affect policing. 

Riverhead police reported 197 criminal incidents in August, up from 155 a year earlier, while arrests and motor vehicle accidents declined.

Posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat, a former Riverhead High School teacher solicited nude images from underage girls and sent them explicit images of himself, prosecutors said in announcing his guilty plea Monday.

Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has proposed a $4.59 billion budget for 2027 that would hold the county's general fund property tax levy steady while relying on more than $2.2 billion in sales tax revenue.

Riverhead awarded a $328,000 community center HVAC contract and approved sewer financing, technology grants and records digitization.

The college's Board of Trustees on Thursday authorized negotiating a purchase-and-sale agreement for the roughly 30,000-square-foot culinary center it has leased on Main Street in downtown Riverhead.

Five Riverhead school board members accused town officials Wednesday of making false statements and politicizing negotiations over funding two school resource officers assigned to the high school and middle school.