08.06.2017 Community Cardboard Boat Race returns to Peconic Riverfront: Video The Riverhead Cardboard Boat Race on the Peconic Riverfront was back in full swing this weekend.
07.13.2017 Environment Peconic Estuary Program celebrates 25 years, but funds in doubt Kevin McDonald remembers 1985, when brown tide was first detected in Peconic Bay. He was recently married, and he and his wife had purchased snorkels and face masks to...
03.19.2017 Videos One Minute on the North Fork: Peconic River For this week’s “One minute on the North Fork” we filmed along the Peconic River on a cool afternoon Thursday near downtown Riverhead.
09.02.2016 Environment In Peconic Estuary, rising temperatures appear responsible for several issues Over the past month, the Peconic Estuary has been hit with one environmental blow after another, a Stony Brook biologist and marine researcher said, thanks in part to rising...
05.12.2016 Environment Underwater video points to Peconic fish kill on the horizon Hundreds of bunker, their mouths yawning open as they gape for oxygenated water and to clean their gills, were filmed swimming in the Peconic River Wednesday. It’s a sign...
02.10.2016 Environment DEC: Fish kills may ‘continue to be the norm’ An official study of last summer’s fish kills in the Peconic River, which were attributed to a variety of factors, confirmed that the biggest culprit was nitrogen-fed algal blooms,...
06.15.2015 Environment Another month, another fish kill in the Peconic River Word of thousands of dead fish washing up on local shores might seem like old news at this point, but another drop in oxygen levels in local waters, coupled with a...
09.23.2014 Outdoors Snapper Tournament set for Sept. 27 along Peconic River The 17th annual Spanner Tournament along the Peconic River in downtown Riverhead is set for Sept. 27. Hosted by the Riverhead Town Recreation Department, the tournament’s goal is to...
06.30.2014 Community Drone’s eye view: Aerial pics from the Cardboard Boat Race Sunday marked Riverhead’s Fifth Annual Cardboard Boat Race downtown in the Peconic River. And while we were on site to tell the story of one nine-member boat team, and...
10.06.2013 Business East End Rowing paddles into downtown Riverhead If it weren’t for the 27-foot-long, 11-inch-wide racing scull in the front yard, the brown-shingled house at 30 McDermott Ave. in downtown Riverhead probably wouldn’t get more than a...
