The League of Women Voters sponsored a forum Tuesday at Rye Middle School to hear from the four candidates for the Board of Education. The election and school budget vote is on May 15. Running for school board are Patrick M. Cox, Nancy Pasquale, Chris Repetto, and incumbent Laura Slack. The two-hour session will be posted online at www.lwvrrbpc.org and www.ryeny.gov/rctv.cfm

Old Post Road Partners, a developer group, presented a plan to remodel an office building into a 150-room hotel to the Planning Commission on Tuesday, in the mayor's conference room at City Hall. On April 18, City Council first heard the proposal. The project would require Council's zoning change approvel to convert offices at 120 Old Post Road.

The subject of water is never far from my mind. When it comes to my garden, which is still recovering from an overabundance last year, I am now considering what I should be doing with the latest forecast of a potential drought this summer.