Rye police issued a warning today against letting dogs go unleashed at Rye Town Park, following a dog-bite incident last weekend. Two boys were bitten on the legs by Jack Russell terriers and had bleeding, Police Commissioner William Connors said. The owners provided medical records for the dogs, eliminating the… Read More →
The City of Rye closed today on a $5.6 million cash sale of its building next to City Hall, home to Lester’s clothing store, Mayor Doug French announced. The city bought 1037 Boston Post Road for $6.2 million in 2006, with the idea of building a police station and courthouse… Read More →
Vickie Cox, a Rye resident who ran her 11th Boston marathon today, described by phone how she had crossed the finish line less than 1 minute before the deadly explosion occurred. “I was just beyond the finish line and suddenly heard this very loud boom, and we turned around and… Read More →
Tara Shanes-Hernandez is honoring the fourth anniversary of her mother’s death from pancreatic cancer today. And later this month, so will hundreds of others. The Shanes-Hernandez family is organizing the fourth annual Westchester Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk on Sunday, April 21, at 9:30 am at Rye Town Park and Playland… Read More →
A lecture in Rye on Saturday will point to lighthouses as a lesson in how to rebuild along a changing shoreline. “Beacons of Sustainability: Lighthouses of the Eastern Seaboard” is the title of the 4 p.m. event at the historic Meeting House on Milton Road. The speakers are preservation architects… Read More →
Rye beat Horace Greeley 4-1 in a Division 2 hockey semifinal at Hommocks
There’s a group making waves about creating a new community radio station in the Rye-Port Chester area. Here’s an announcement for two meetings, tonight and tomorrow, in Rye Town Hall to talk it over. Let’s turn the mic over to Greg Arcaro: TO: COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THE TOWN OF RYE… Read More →
The new manager of the city-owned Rye Golf Club received applause from members tonight as he described his work during his first 10 days on the job. In that time he has recruited new staffing agencies, responded to queries about the club’s catering facility and taken full inventory of a… Read More →
Donald Philips Dennis will be remembered for generating foreign policy discussions far and wide, from the Rye library up to the global scale. He died last month at 96. He lived in Rye from 1947 to 2004 and in White Plains until August of last year. Following is an obituary… Read More →
There’s a new report of interest to taxpayers in Port Chester, Rye Brook and Mamaroneck—or anyone who can’t resist a title like “Review of Governance and Service Alternatives.” The report is the result of a study on whether it could save money to eliminate the Town of Rye, a thin… Read More →
