🌱 Long Island Restaurant Week + Spotted Lanternfly + Wine Award!

Morning, Riverhead! Diane Witek here providing you with what you need to know to get your day started off right! Here's everything that's happening in and around town today.

Weather:

• Today: Plenty of sunshine. High: 61, low: 38.

Here are the top stories in Riverhead today:

1. Long Island Restaurant Week. Farm Country Kitchen, Hotel Indigo and The Preston House & Hotel. See what else is available in our neighborhood. (Long Island Restaurant Week)
2. Spotted lanternfly, a threat to vineyards and fruit farms, getting closer to the North Fork. The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County has issued an alert after a spotted lanternfly was identified near MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, nearly 30 miles from Riverhead. (Riverhead News Review)
3. Wine Enthusiast has awarded Coffee Pot Cellars’s 2014 Merlot 92 points and an Editor’s Choice honor, as well as a spot in the prominent wine publication’s annual Top 100 Wine List. (Northforker)

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Today in Riverhead:

Today,

• Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving (Riverhead). (9:30 a.m.)
• Art Adventure - Riverhead Free Library. (10 a.m.)
• Tai Chi- Riverhead Free Library. (5 p.m.)

Riverhead Patch Notebook

• Suffolk County Sheriff's Office: "Sheriff Toulon was invited to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Temple to celebrate Diwali. It was a wonderful celebration filled with amazing food, lights, and great people. #happydiwali2021, #SCSO." (Facebook)
• Suffolk County Historical Society: World War Monument, located at the corner of West Main Street and Court Street in Riverhead. "Erected by the People of the Town of Riverhead in honor of the men of the town who answered the call of their country to fight for world-wide liberty in the war 1917 - 1919." (Facebook)

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— Diane Witek

About me: Impassioned Writer, Website Designer, Social Media Marketer and newly proclaimed Baker. Lover of nature and animals of all kinds.

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