Judy Ryen will retire as Business Manager of the Rye Free Reading Room on February 10. That will be 29 years just about to the day from when she started working there.
This month, The City of Rye Police Department began using the CodeRED high-speed notification system. The system, which replaces Reverse 911, provides the Department with the ability to quickly deliver messages to targeted areas or the entire city.
The dysfunctional family drama is practically a genre unto itself, and “August: Osage County” sticks firmly to its tropes.
College grade inflation has been going on for what seems like forever. Actually, between 1920 and 1960 there was virtually none. But it started moving up at an ever-increasing rate in the 1960s and by the 1970s was on a roll.
Having raised two children in an age where I’ve seen them go from happily playing with Barbie dolls, reading paper-based books, and building with LEGOs to a life now totally fixated by pocket-sized powerful electronic devices that are more an appendage than a novelty, I am left with many questions and concerns.
