Annabelle Schultze has been accepted into the School of American Ballet’s summer course. The 12-year-old auditioned along with 2,000 aspiring students around the country for one of the 200 available spaces.

When I was a boy being introduced to confession, along with its bonus companion for life, guilt, I was pretty sure that I was the only one who actually had to make stuff up before going into the dark confessional.

With the promise of spring in the air, my thoughts drift to the long-awaited ground hog and his shadow. The notion of waiting has always intrigued me, because I’ve never been very good at it.

The Rye Garden Club Conservation Committee recently presented its EnviroScape Program to second and third graders in Debra Simpson’s science class at Rye Country Day School.

Rye Writes: Marissa Licursi Reaches Out with “A Paw and A Flipper”

Writers are always willing to share stories about how they ended up becoming writers, but 16-year-old Marissa Licursi’s is especially worth sharing.

Up the Creek, With a Paddle!

For the past four summers, I have gone canoe tripping with Camp Wabun for six weeks.

Downtown People: Fong’s: The Moy the Merrier

Walk into Fong’s Hand Laundry & Cleaners and you might wonder who’s in charge. Customers often are greeted, simultaneously, by several smiling members of the Moy family.

Claiming financial hardship, the owners of 279 Purchase Street applied to the Planning Commission to amend the site approval granted in 2006. The application was approved with the caveat that no food-related service would be permitted.

Back in November 2006, author and environmentalist Colin Beavan decided that he, his wife, and their 2-year-old daughter would embark on a yearlong conservation project.  The goal: to reduce their impact on the environment to as close to zero as possible.