Bruce fan alert: The Blind Brook PTA will raise money with a concert Thursday, Jan. 31, by the Bruce Springsteen tribute band Tramps Like Us. The event, at $25 a ticket, starts at 7:30 p.m. in the high school’s George Trautwein Theater, 840 King St. in Rye Brook. For tickets… Read More →
The “Fun Bus” is being deployed to Rye Brook on Tuesday to collect supplies for people affected by Superstorm Sandy along the New Jersey shore. The fitness-promotion vehicle will be at the Bruno M. Ponterio Ridge Street School during a student collection drive and assembly in the morning. Then it… Read More →
Blind Brook is planning to reopen the schools Monday at the usual time “barring unforeseen circumstances,” and Port Chester will reopen Monday on a two-hour delay. Rye is hoping to reopen also, though the district was still waiting for power to be restored at the Osborn and Milton schools as… Read More →
Homes in parts of Port Chester, Rye Brook and Mamaroneck will be visited over the next two months by inspectors who are updating assessment data for the Town of Rye. The town-wide inspection effort, the first since 1967, began last year with a review of commercial properties. Data collectors from… Read More →
The annual “sleep-out” fund-raiser and rally for the homeless is back again this weekend as volunteers gather at the Blind Brook athletic fields and, if they choose, stay there overnight. The keynote speaker at 8 p.m. Saturday will be Kate Snow, correspondent for NBC News, said Nikta Daijavad, a Blind… Read More →
School budgets, nearly all complying with the state tax cap, passed by large margins today in Westchester County. Results from across the region are tallied on this page. One noteworthy result is in Port Chester, where the board president, Blanca Lopez, was defeated in her bid for a second term…. Read More →
The League of Women Voters is holding three school candidate forums Tuesday night, May 1, for the Port Chester, Rye and Blind Brook districts. The Port Chester forum, with incumbents Jim Dreves and Blanca Lopez and challenger Tom Corbia, begins at 7 p.m. in Port Chester High School Room 229…. Read More →
Property owners in the Town of Rye – Port Chester, Rye Brook and part of Mamaroneck – are receiving updated assessments that will become the basis for property taxes this year. The assessments reflect market value as of July 1, 2011. Town Assessor Mitchell Markowitz sent this letter to the… Read More →
Rye Brook is starting up a farmer’s market of its own this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., adding to the growing market map in the area. The plan is to begin with indoor markets twice a month at the Posillipo Center and then find an outdoor location to… Read More →
Blind Brook schools chief William Stark tonight outlined a $40 million draft budget for the 2012-13 school year that stays within the statewide tax cap and avoids any major cuts. The plan raises the tax levy by 1.71 percent and marks a 1.23 percent increase over the current year’s budget…. Read More →
