Caring for Trees and Keeping Them Out of Trouble
The emerald ash borer (EAB) is on its way to Rye and the effects could be ugly. First discovered in the United States in 2001, this tree-eating pest arrived accidentally in wood crates from Asia. Since then it has spread to nearly every state and is estimated to have already decimated 50 million ash trees. […]
Daffy Over Daffodils
By Bill Lawyer Spring is still weeks away, but I’m already thinking about daffodils, for which I’ve long had an affinity. Perhaps it’s because they are often in full bloom around the time of my birthday, in early April. Especially attractive are the ones in the “Halsted Hill” neighborhood, including the grassy area outside the […]
Garnets Fall a Bucket Short of Final Four, 55-54
By Mitch Silver The singer Jerry Reed put the phrase to music more than 40 years ago: “When you’re hot, you’re hot. When you’re not, you’re not.” The Rye Boys’ Basketball team was definitely <not> last Thursday night. The sixth-seed’s from Albertus Magnus led nearly all the way against the home-standing Garnets in the Section […]
Hannes Boehning Earns All-American Status at Nationals
By Mitch Silver Capping a hugely successful season for Rye Country Day’s wrestlers, Hannes Boehning finished eighth in the country in the 220-pound weight class at the National Prep Championships held at Lehigh University last weekend. His Elite Eight effort earned Boehning All-American status in his third try at Nationals, and made him the second […]
Wildcats Undefeated in League
By Melanie Cane In their first year as a member of the Women’s Interscholastic Hockey League of the Mid-Atlantic (WIHLMA), which is comprised of 11 teams, Rye Country Day School’s Girls’ Ice Hockey team garnered first place and won the league championship tournament. The Wildcats achieved an 8-0 record in the league and shut out […]
Wildcats Bring Home NYSAIS Championship Crown Again
By Melanie Cane For the second time in three years, Rye Country Day School’s Girls’ Basketball team won the NYSAIS Championship tournament. After defeating 6th-seeded Holy Child in the quarterfinals and Poly Prep, the No. 2 seed in the semifinals, the third-seeded Wildcats topped Manhattan’s Trinity School 50-35 for the NYSAIS title on February 27. […]
Wildcats Take FAA Title in 3-1 Nailbiter
By Mitch Silver Conventional wisdom says it’s hard to beat the same team three times in a season. For a hockey team, it’s especially hard when you’ve run up a three-goal margin in the other guy’s rink. But that was 75 days ago. So Rye Country Day went into Saturday’s Fairchester Athletic Association championship game […]
All-Section Soccer Star Luis Galeano Bids Rye Neck a Fond Farewell
By Mitch Silver The Beach Boys sang about it more than 50 years ago in “Be True to Your School”: <When some loud braggart tries to put me downAnd says his school is greatI tell him right away, “Now what’s the matter buddyAin’t you heard of my school?It’s number one in the state.”So be true […]
Rugby Club Gears Up for Spring
By Gretchen Althoff Snyder In 2013, Evan Kamer was looking to fill a void in the otherwise saturated world of Rye youth sports. Kamer’s son found his passion playing rugby on a club team in Old Greenwich, but sadly the club only offered rugby until the age of 15. After joining forces with another Rye […]
Students in the News 3/3/17
<<Alexander (Tiger) Hu>> and <<Alex Meyer,>> both seniors at Rye High School, have been named to the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. They, along with the other Scholars, are invited to Washington, D.C. for several days in June for the National Recognition program. Waiting for pix from Rye Camera <<Adam Coshal>> was named to the […]