For the second year in a row, the Garnets have brought home the league title.

Last weekend, 24 teams competed for glory at the Section 1 Boys’ Swim Finals held at the Felix Festa Middle School in West Nyack.

When Coach Mike Simon took over the track program at Holy Child in 2013, the current seniors on the team, all of whom are captains, were freshman.

This past summer, I completed the final step in the lengthy process to become an Eagle Scout. I crossed over from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts in fifth grade with ten classmates.

On several occasions this winter I’ve been out walking my dog when I’ve encountered a scene out of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller — huge flocks of birds all swarming around one or more bare-branched trees.

While many of us are hibernating, hoping for warm, sunny days and non-icy driveways, The Rye Arts Center just keeps on humming and creating an inviting indoor landscape.

Hannibal Smith used to say, “I love it when a plan comes together.” Rye Boys’ Basketball coach John Aguiar must know how the A Team’s leader used to feel. His Garnets pressed the Pearl River Pirates right out of the building Tuesday night in a near-flawless first half of planned, playoff basketball. When the whistle sent the boys to their halftime locker rooms, the scoreboard read “35-12, Rye.” Game over.