🌱 Riverhead Daily: Riverhead's Firearms Facility + $250M Water Grant

Good morning, Riverhead! Diane Witek here to help you get started this Saturday with everything you need to know going on today in Riverhead.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 57, low: 44.

Here are the top stories in Riverhead today:

1. The firearms facility, to be located within the existing one-story concrete block building, will include an indoor shooting range that will be open to the public, as well as a virtual reality training facility and firearms sales. (Subscription: Riverhead News Review)
2. Police are searching for two men who sexually assaulted a woman at her Mastic Beach home. The suspects are seen on camera entering the home around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Police said one of the men physically and sexually assaulted the victim, before both men robbed her. (News 12 Long Island)
3. The state Environmental Facilities Corporation awarded more than $250 million in state grants to Long Island water providers for a range of projects, including treating emerging water contaminants. See what towns are getting the benefit of the grant. (Subscription: Newsday)
4. This Saturday the Waterdrinker Tulip Festival will be in bloom with 1 million flowers, twice as many as last year. Waterdrinker Family Farm & Garden is at 663 Wading River Road in Manorville. (Subscription: Long Island Press)

Today in Riverhead:

• Riverhead Town Earth Day Cleanup. (8:30 a.m.)
• Deep Sea Adventure Drive-Thru (Babylon ALL AGES!). (6 a.m.)
• Earth Day Celebration — Hallockville Museum Farm. (10 a.m.)
• Sinatra Swings into Spring. (8 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Spirit's Promise Equine Rescue Program: "Elvis is off to Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists with our dear friend Rob West! He’ll be staying overnight as they remove his trademark top incisor, as well as the remaining roots of his other incisor and canine teeth." (Facebook) (Website)
• RiverheadLOCAL: "Hoping to resolve a long-running dispute once and for all, the highway superintendent and the town board agreed to ask the state attorney general for an opinion in the ongoing dispute over whether the cost of the town's loose leaf pickup." (Instagram)
• RiverheadLOCAL: "The proposed code amendment would allow code enforcement officers and police to issue violations for loud music produced by sound reproduction devices, like amplifiers, without needing to do a comprehensive sound study." (Instagram)
• The Long Island Pine Barrens Society: "LIPBS TV Highlight: Native Plants. Check out this month’s TV show discussing the importance of native plants for our local ecosystem. Maybe you’ll be inspired to use some Long Island native plants in your garden." (Facebook)
• The Suffolk Theater: "Get down with New York's funkiest band — 'That 70's Band'. 🕺💃 Bringing the dance, disco, the funk and so much more to Suffolk Theater on May 29!" (Instagram) (Website)

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Events:

• Riverhead Town Earth Day Cleanup. (April 23)
• Restaurant Week at Legends of New Suffolk. Join us for a special price fixe menu! (April 24)
• National Hug A Plumber Day. (April 25)
• "The Producers." (May 12)
• A Walk in The Dark — Fighting Childhood Blindness. (May 14)
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Now you're in the loop and ready to start this Saturday! I'll see you soon.

— Diane Witek

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