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Riverhead grads lead University of West Georgia to national cheerleading title Riverhead graduates Destiny Leonard, far left, and Melissa Blackmore-Wigley, far right, celebrate after winning a national cheerleading title in late April for the University of West Georgia. (Courtesy photo) In the world of competitive cheerleading, the University of West Georgia stands at the top as one of the most dominant programs at the collegiate level. In the past two decades, the all-girl and coed teams have combined to win 27 championships at UCA Nationals — the pinn...

With lemonade stand, students hope to honor beloved teacher St. David’s staff Jutta Mariotti, Rose Horton and Louise Markert with UPK students Kylin Beeman, Emmanuel Amoussouvi, Siya Patel, Elsie Corwin and Lexi Curry. (Credit: Tara Smith) Students at St. David’s School in Riverhead are raising money to help keep a beloved educator’s memory alive. Each Wednesday in May, a group of UPK students set up a lemonade stand at the school, located on Roanoke Avenue, offering lemonade, iced tea and snacks. According to director Rose Horton, proceeds from the...

Ava Malanga fires a shot on goal for Riverhead. (Credit: Robert O’Rourk) One of the cruelties of this COVID-19 pandemic is that what might have been the greatest Riverhead girls lacrosse team ever never had a chance to prove itself. The 2020 Blue Waves, with so much to win, saw their season lost to the coronavirus, and with that sank so many hopes and dreams. Riverhead had reached the Suffolk County Class A semifinals both in 2018 and 2019. In 2019, the Blue Waves came agonizingly close to what would have been their first county final before being edged by Middle Coun...

Getting back on track. That’s the name of the game for the Riverhead High School boys track and field team these days. For the first time in nearly 14 months, the school hosted a sporting event on its campus Monday. It was the track team’s first competition in two years. Last year’s spring season was wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic after the first several practices. That’s the big picture. Since Riverhead had lost its winter and fall seasons earlier this restructured sports year to budget cutbacks — and with them the cross-country and winter track seasons for its runners to bu...

Updated 18 mins ago Sure, you've heard of storm chasers. That's just not much of an option for Southern California photographers, really. Last year, however, when a red tide's bacteria lit up the coastline from Ventura to Baja in electric blue light, a bioluminescence chaser was born. Download our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Patrick Coyne, a photographer and videographer from Torrance, caught the bug -- bad -- last year. It hit just as the pandemic shut everything else down, so he spent weeks traveling up and down the coast with his ...