🌱 Riverhead Fire Kills Five + They’ll Eat Out Of Your Hand!

Up and at 'em, Riverhead! Diane Witek here providing you with what you need to know to get your day started off right!

First, today's weather:

Breezy. High: 65, low: 38.

Here are the top stories today in Riverhead:

1. Five killed in house fire in Historic Downtown Riverhead. The fire was reported by a Riverhead police officer and involved multiple apartments. Several occupants were able to escape from the three-story wood-framed house, but five bodies were found inside the home after the fire had been extinguished. All five who died were on the third floor. (The Patch)
2. Town seeking state grant money to connect homes to Riverhead Water District. Riverhead Town is hoping to receive state grant money to cover the bulk of the estimated $13 million needed to connect homes in Manorville and Calverton to the Riverhead Water District. The Environmental Facilities Corporation, a public benefit corporation, provides partial funding for upgrades to water infrastructure through its Water Infrastructure Improvement Act (WIIA). The town is seeking to receive a large portion of the cost of upgrading its waste system from this fund. (Riverhead News Review)
3. You can explore the Long Island Game Farm for the first time this winter. For the first time in its more than 50-year existence, the Long Island Game Farm in Manorville plans to stay open on weekends through winter. It will offer a scaled-down experience for discounted admission beginning this month on weekends when weather permits. Visitors will be able to enter the deer park and interact with and feed the more than two dozen deer. "They’ll eat out of your hand," said director Melinda Novak. Visitors will also be able to get close to the goats. "You can pet them, hug them," Novak said. "We also sell milk bottles if you want to give them a treat."(Newsday)

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Today in Riverhead:

• Positive Discipline — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. (5 a.m.)
• Chair Yoga (In Person) (Riverhead). (11 a.m.)
• Virtual Chair Yoga — Riverhead Free Library. (11 a.m.)
• Conversational Spanish on Zoom (Riverhead). (4 p.m.)
• Turkey Adventures — Riverhead Free Library. (5:30 p.m.)
• Felting with Vicki: Pumpkin (Riverhead). (6:30 p.m.)

Riverhead Patch Notebook

• East End Food Market: "Lettuce introduce you to Sang Lee Farms 🥔🥕🍆🥬🧅. Sang Lee Farms was established in the mid 1940s and their goal is to provide the highest quality vegetables and service for all of their customers." (Instagram)
• NY Marine Rescue Center: "Attention Long Island residents and visitors! The temperatures are dropping and the sea turtles are coming! As the weather quickly changes in the upcoming days, weeks, and months, we are starting to deploy our patrol team to search the beaches here on Long Island to look for cold stunned turtles, and you can help too!" (Facebook)
• The Long Island Pine Barrens Society: "It's National Take a Hike Day! How are you celebrating? Learn more about hiking trails within the Pine Barrens here: https://www.pinebarrens.org/hiking/." (Facebook)
• Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps. (RVAC): "Only a few more days left to get a raffle ticket! 🎟 🎟🎟🎟🎟 🚨. The Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps is selling calendar raffle tickets for the month of December." (Facebook)

• Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County: "Ever wonder why some foods make your blood sugar rise more than others? Everything we eat is broken down in our bodies and used as energy. The way our body breaks down food is dependent on whether it is a carbohydrate, protein, or fat." (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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