Unless they win the championship, every team in every sport ends their season in defeat. So it was with Rye’s basketball-playing boys as the season came to a close last month.

Whenever I returned to Rye, be it after a week-long vacation or a year living abroad, one of my first stops was always Tony and Peggy’s, as my family affectionately called one of Rye’s oldest institutions, T.D’s Rye Smoke Shop.

Officially, I have been a part of the D’Onofrio family for the past 28 years, 37 years if you count the years before marriage. 

Jonah Gorevic, the local runner from Greenhaven who last year broke the world record for 11-year-olds in the mile, set two more records in his most recent outings on the track.

Upgrading the historic Wainwright House mansion outbuildings and grounds was sort of like opening one door after another in the quest of the “holy grail,” in this case, energy efficiency and lower energy costs.