Riverhead

A developer involved in the construction of mixed-use projects in the Town of Riverhead was arrested last month for an alleged financial crime, court records show. Gregory DeRosa was charged on March 23 with issuing a bad check, a misdemeanor punishable by up to three months in jail, stemming from an incident on June…

To many, Enterprise Park at Calverton, or EPCAL, is synonymous with a struggle to make things happen, dreams deferred or even derailed. And yet, there is a second side to this story. There have been some noteworthy developments at EPCAL recently and over the years, although at least so far not in the most high-profile chunk of that massive 2,900-acre property acquired from the U.S. Navy in 1998. The efforts to develop a 1,600-acre chunk of EPCAL both stalled and remain stuck in ongoing litigation, but despite that stalemate, other projects have been moving ahead. And other portions of EPCAL…

On October 11, 1881, the theater that would eventually come to be known as the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall officially opened its doors on what is now Peconic Avenue in downtown Riverhead. The oldest performance venue in downstate New York, the Music Hall mounted its first show a full two decades before the Great White Way…

When Forbes created a list of the top 50 travel destinations around the world this year, it listed places from the Canary Islands to Qatar, Colorado Springs to the Seychelles. There were 11 in the United States and one on Long Island: Riverhead. The location, near vineyards, breweries and beaches, with an aquarium, the Riverhead…