Riverhead is blessed to have an organization, the Butterfly Effect Project, that sees how girls are butterflies in progress, from birth, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, to adult.

Paid Notice: Our beloved mother, Barbara Ann Beitel Cooney, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. Her family traveled from near and far to say their goodbyes and to show their appreciation and love.

Paid Notice: Thomas Michael Waygood was born on Dec. 18, 1946 in Everett, Washington, to James W. Waygood Sr. and the former Margaret Mortland. He passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from congestive heart failure, following surgery.