Rye Recreation was the honored setting for a swinging Rye American Legion Post 128 Christmas party December 15. Assemblyman George Latimer did a stand-up job harmonizing with his vocally gifted wife Robin. John Carolin kept the tunes coming.
On December 18, a group of Sole Ryeders families helped prepare and serve brunch for more than 70 guests in support of the Pinwheel Project’s partnership with the Ronald McDonald House in Valhalla. The guests were families whose children are receiving care from the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital and others who are ‘alumni’ of this Ronald McDonald House. Singing and gift giving were the order of the day.
SPRYE is off to a running start. Rye’s aging-in-place organization to help older adults stay in their homes has already signed up 50 dues-paying households with 70 members since starting operations at the beginning of October. Its progress is on track with the pace achieved by similar organizations in neighboring communities — 180 households in Bronxville’s Grammaton Village after three years, and Mamaroneck’s At Home on the Sound with 105 households after 18 months.
I’ve lived with fog most of my life. Growing up in York, Pennsylvania, which is located in a valley surrounded on all sides by fairly high hills, many were the mornings my friends and I walked to school unable to see more than a few feet ahead of us. And because York was a factory town, what we encountered was more smog than fog.
At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, total deposits in the eight banks in Rye grew to $1.2 billion, a 10% increase from a year ago, according to records recently released by FDIC. Three-quarters of that gain came from one bank, JP Morgan/Chase, which increased its share of deposits from 36.9% to 40.3%.
Rye’s Reidenberg Stars in a Whale of a Series
When you’re in the “whale business”, receiving a phone call near the end of the workday requesting you hop on a transatlantic flight scheduled to depart at 6 p.m. is simply part of the job.
If you have not made your New Year’s resolutions or are not ready to begin implementing them, you could claim to be following the ancient Roman lunar calendar. It had only ten months, ending in December (literally the tenth month), and began on March 1.
Many readers of this newspaper knew Bob Schubert as the fierce combatant who took his fight over the destruction of a pond on his property to the councils and committees of the City of Rye, as well as to the courts of justice and public opinion. His advocacy was not always polite, and the ferocity of his verbal attacks sometimes seemed offensive to those on the receiving end.
