Riverside News

A man faces a felony criminal charge after Southampton Town Police said he presented a forged identification card early Monday morning when he was arrested for obstructing traffic in the Riverside traffic circle.

A Manorville environmental remediation company is suing Peconic Paddler in Riverside, charging that the owner of the kayak rental and tour business still owes more than $140,000 for cleanup work that was completed two years ago.

Towering waves battered portions of the oceanfront during last weekend's intense nor'easter, one of the strongest and longest to hit the area in years, washing away dunes, undermining roads and threatening oceanfront homes and other structures.

A long-discussed idea involving three government agencies, all trying to preserve a nearly one acre Riverside property overlooking the Peconic River, has resurfaced once again.

Greetings, Flanders. Pretty soon I will be writing about how all of the stores are decorated for the holidays and how all of the television commercials are now featuring Christmas music.

Jermaine Holmes outside Southampton Town Justice Court on the day of his arraignment.

Hello there, Flanders. Did you all enjoy those fabulous few days of Indian summer? I know my family and I sure did, and we took the opportunity to get plenty of things done around the house.

One of the baddest of opera's bad girls - so rebellious that sometimes she even smokes cigarettes - will strut her defiant stuff Saturday in the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

Ruben G. Soyos, 23, of Riverside was arrested by New York State Police on October 19 on County Road 104 in Riverside and charged with DWI.

It has been a very long week for all of the kids around town with Halloween waiting in the wings.

HAMPTON BAYS A man wanted for killing a teen, eight years ago, in California, and who had been living on Long Island for four years, is in custody.

Anna Throne-Holst during the East Quogue Civic Association meeting on Wednesday.

The Southampton Town Board on Tuesday reached an agreement on tax relief issue. see all images Southampton Town residents who live in communities hardest hit by the economic downturn will receive less tax relief for 2009 than they did this year.

ROCHESTER The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $26,000 grant under the Clean Cities Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicle Pilot Grant Progtram.

Some of Suffolk County's homeless sex offenders now staying in trailers in Riverside and Westhampton could soon be relocated to similar facilities in the western part of the county, according to Riverhead Town officials.

Just in time for this week's annual fall National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters confab in Washington, D.C., Rep.

A plan to build a mini-mart along a main thoroughfare in Flanders is not going over well with some residents.

Southampton Town investigators slapped the property owners of three homes in Riverside with more than 100 code violations on Tuesday, according to a press release issued by the town.

Here's hoping that everyone is adjusting to their back-to-school routines, and for those of you whose children are out of school, I hope you're leaving extra time for all those big yellow buses that tend to hold up traffic a bit on Flanders Road.

I hope that everyone has finished their back-to-school shopping already because this coming holiday weekend will feature the usual Labor Day mayhem at the Riverhead Outlets.