The Rye House Tour:  How It All Began

Over its 36-year history, literally thousands of Rye High School parents, friends, and neighbors have considered the Rye House Tour a “don’t-miss” event.

President John Adams paid a visit to the Rye Historical Society Annual Spring Luncheon and Boutique

Give Them THE COLLEGE SPORTING LIFE

This fall, Rye High School will be sending one of the larger contingents of athletes in recent years off to college teams.

The late 19th century was a heady time in the art world, both here and in Europe. The wealthy industrialists or “robber barons” of the Gilded Age — Mellon, Carnegie, Frick, Gould, and Vanderbilt among them — commissioned artists to decorate their town houses and country estates in Manhattan and Newport, Venice and Paris.

igns of construction seem to be everywhere in Rye. School enrollment is up. Parking seems tough to find, but that’s status quo – or maybe a result of all this winter’s snow. Is Rye growing or is this just a case of renovations and moving around?

City officials led a public site walk of the Theodore Fremd Avenue site where a senior affordable housing project is proposed the weekend morning of March 10.

Not surprisingly, the March 11 Board of Education meeting was dominated by discussion of the 2014/2015 budget — and the $3.8 million shortfall.

After hearing a sizable amount of negative input from the Rye community, Sustainable Playland Inc. submitted an amended plan to the County Executive’s Office, which was in turn sent to the County Board of Legislators (BOL), March 12.

I don’t mean to brag, but my kids totally listen to me. It would be nice if this communication happened while we were sitting together by the fire, with me sharing decades of hard-earned wisdom and them taking it in with smiles of appreciation.

Through sleet and snow, the construction of a gracious and spacious Shingle Style home in the heart of town has continued unabated this winter.