Riverhead

Pat Snyder has been working on behalf of the Town of Riverhead since 1995 when she began to focus on community development through the arts at East End Arts Council. She led the growth of East End Arts with major program expansion and $1.2 million in capital improvements to multi-award winning status over her tenure. As Executive Director through 2018, she garnered national attention via the National Arts Destination Marketing Award for the collaborative creation of Winterfest Jazz on the Vine, a cultural tourism initiative bringing an annual $1 million in economic impact for the North Fork during the slow winter months.

Pat has lived in the Riverhead area for thirty years. Her two children Kristen and Dan are Riverhead School District graduates. Kristen is a teacher in Riverhead Schools. Along with her grandchildren Summer and Dillon, her family provides on-going bragging rights.

Michele Lynch resides in Riverhead with her husband of 35 years, Tom, a retired Riverhead Police Sargent. She and Tom are the proud parents of Patrick a NYPD Sargent, their daughter in-law, Krista Fuerman Lynch and granddaughter, Maddie.

A native of Riverhead, New York, Jeanmarie P. Costello is a 1978 summa cum laude graduate of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, earning a B.S. in Sociology, Urban Studies, with an A.A.S. degree in Criminal Justice. In 1981, Jeanmarie graduated from St. John’s University School of Law, Jamaica, New York, where she was a member of the Moot Court, Senior Bar and Criminal Law Institute.

Neil Krupnick has successfully owned his own small business since 1995. Currently, he is the President of the Northville Beach Civic Association. Neil recently led the fight to stop the United Riverhead Terminal from expanding an industrial non-conforming use in a residential area and is currently trying to convince the Riverhead Town Board to impose weight and size restrictions on trucks, especially those carrying hazardous materials, on our narrow, two lane roads.

Anthony Coates has had a long, varied and successful career in the private sector and he has always coupled his business career with service to his community.