THE EAST END / Referendum In Riverhead / Constant trickle of students brings a flood of new plans EAST END Edition

ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, Riverhead school officials looked to the west and saw a tidal wave of growth which, they believed, would soon engulf them. The schools in the eastern part of Brookhaven town were growing at a rapid rate, and the farms that made up much of the sprawling Riverhead school district...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author BY MITCHELL FREEDMAN. STAFF WRITER
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 06.12.1998
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Summary:ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, Riverhead school officials looked to the west and saw a tidal wave of growth which, they believed, would soon engulf them. The schools in the eastern part of Brookhaven town were growing at a rapid rate, and the farms that made up much of the sprawling Riverhead school district - it takes in part of three towns - were expected to soon turn into new homes, with lots of bedrooms for new children. "From the early '90s to the mid-'90s we thought that we'd have 5,000 students by the year 2000," said David Carlson, the school district's chief fiscal officer. "If we had built them, we'd have classrooms, but not the kids."