Long Island schools earmark over half a billion dollars in initiatives for pandemic recovery; Coffee with a Cop Day is back in Riverhead; LIRR crew train for first new stretch of territory in over a century; more Long Islanders died from Covid in the past summer than 2020 or 2021; farmworkers now entitled to overtime after 40 hours of work beginning in January 2023; and none of the hundreds of clergy sex abuse cases filed against the Roman Catholic Church have been settled. Riverhead police officers will be at the following locations from 8:30am to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday:  Bean and Bagel Café, 4426 Middle Country Road, Calverton El Deli Chapin & Grocery, 303 Osborn Avenue, Riverhead Goldberg’s Bagels, 138 E. Main Street, Riverhead Duffy’s Deli, 1566 Main Road, Jamesport 

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