As School Funding Runs Dry, Riverhead Residents Call to Shut Down Economic Development Org
A growing local faction is demanding that the IDA be dissolved.
![Sign reads:
Grow your business here!
Town of Riverhead Empire Zone
631-208-0570
www.riverheadzone.com](https://imgproxy.gridwork.co/97tptF895q61-sf6sNIRw02ujD4GHMLWil95AankoII/w:820/h:615/rt:fill/g:fp:0.5:0.5/q:90/f:jpg/el:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy51cy1lYXN0LTIuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS9ueXNmb2N1cy9yaXZlcmhlYWQtdGF4LWZyZWUuanBn.jpg)
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“I don’t blame businesses for wanting to get as big of a profit as they possibly can, but that shouldn’t be the job of a town.”
“This is uniting the community more than any other event in the past decade that I can remember.”
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