Conditions were hot and dusty (better than cold and rainy) for the Mercer Lake Sprints regatta, April 21. With a head-on view of the Princeton Boathouse, 45 Rye High rowers cruised through ten races in West Windsor, New Jersey. Sixty-one teams participated in the daylong affair, including crews from Florida, California, and London.
The Rye girls’ golf team opened the season last week with big wins over Suffern, 264-303, and Scarsdale, 240-301.
I remember being excited about spring two years ago, but not that excited. This year I can feel spring all the way down to my toes. What’s the difference? It’s back! Due to popular demand, the Rye House Tour returns in grand style.
Updated April 19
4/9: Keep that safe cold. Officer on patrol noticed a black backpack lying behind a tree on Hillside Road by Boston Post Road. Contents included 8 Bud Lites and 2 Coors Lights. Property placed in safe.
At the yearly spring meeting of both Rye City Council and Rye City Schools Board of Education on Saturday, the joint bodies demanded relief from Albany for the costly mandates they bear.
Milton School kindergarten students began a nine-week, hands-on, after-school organic gardening program, “Through the Garden Gate,” at the Bird Homestead April 17. Their guide and instructor is Han Yu Hung, Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden.
Irony, according to the late author David Foster Wallace, tyrannizes us. While Wallace himself may have found the most drastic way to break free from our post-modernist prison, the world he left behind is still crying out to be reconstructed.
