🌱 Riverhead Daily: Riverhead Open Auditions For “The Agitators”

Hey, Riverhead! It's me again, Diane Witek, your host of the Riverhead Daily. Here are the top 2 stories in Riverhead today.

First, today's weather:

Variable cloudiness. High: 36, low: 28.

Here are the top stories today in Riverhead:

1. The play “The Agitators” based on the true story of the lifelong friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass is holding an open audition on Sunday, Jan. 16 and Monday, Jan. 17 at 6 p.m. at Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, 18 Peconic Avenue in Riverhead. The audition is casting two African American males aged 45 to 60 for the role of Frederick Douglass. The show also needs a violinist throughout the show who is an African American person aged 12 or older. For scripts, email bootstheater1@gmail.com. (RiverheadLOCAL)
2. The man killed in a Christmas morning home invasion in North Sea was Steven Byrnes. Byrnes, 53, of Roses Grove Road, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home at 8:45 a.m., according to Suffolk County Police. Anyone with information on the shooting to contact the homicide squad at 631-852-6392 or call anonymously to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.(Patch)

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Today in Riverhead:

• Parachute Play - Riverhead Free Library. (11 a.m.)
• Embroidered Canvas Art - Riverhead Free Library. (1 p.m.)

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• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County: "Heri za Kwanzaa! #CCESuffolk sends warm wishes to those in our community who celebrate Kwanzaa and hope that your new year is filled with unity and faith. #Kwanzaa." (Facebook)

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