If You Build Them, Flocks Will Come
The ever-crafty Sue Seitz loves nature as much as she does Rye. Six years ago she came up with the idea of building birdhouses modeled after venerated locales. The City was happy to install them at the Five Points intersection across from Kelly’s, where they’ve benefitted the birds and beautified a corner of town. In […]
Summer Hoops
Resurrection Church sponsors a Summer Basketball League for college-age men Wednesday nights at 8 and 9:15 through August 9. Forty-five players have registered. “It is an excellent time of exercise, fun, and reconnecting with friends,” says Rev. Donald M. Dwyer. Among the colleges represented are Dartmouth, Bucknell, Tufts, Kentucky, Colgate, Villanova, UC Berkeley, Duke, and […]
Panthers Beat Goliaths Mahopac and Greeley en Route to Winning Season
Rye Neck Boys’ Golf Panthers Beat Goliaths Mahopac and Greeley en Route to Winning Season By Mitch Silver Coach Mark Canno’s team had another in a string of successful seasons this spring, finishing 13-3 for a second-place finish in Conference III League B play. Along the way, the squad notched home-and-home victories over […]
Run Jonah, Run
Jonah Gorevic, who currently holds the age-group world records for the mile run as a 10-, 11-, and 12-year-old, ran a 4.38.41 mile at the Eastern State Championships, lowering his personal best by 5 seconds. This spring he came in fourth in the 3,200-meter run in the state meet and eighth in the […]
RowAmericaRye Wins Three Medals at Nationals
RowAmericaRye Wins Three Medals at Nationals By Melanie Cane Of the six RowAmerica Rye crews that went to the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championships June 9-11 in Sarasota, Florida, four made it to the grand finals, and three brought home medals. Rye High School seniors Sean Hayes and Gus Rodriguez won gold in the Men’s […]
Garnets are Wire-to-Wire National Champions.
Rye High Rowing Garnets are Wire-to-Wire National Champions. By Mitch Silver The Rye High Lightweight Four + Coxswain crew — silver medalists in two different national competitions a year ago — are now the heavyweights in their chosen field. A month ago, the boat of stroke John Dailey, Timothy Rudolph-Math, Jimmy Cronin, Jack Hartman, […]
Young Wildcats Medal in Two State Championships
Rye Country Day Sailing By Mitch Silver The 2016 sailing season was one for the record books at Rye Country Day School. Led by senior captains Hugh Reynolds and Andy Rochat, the team posted a top-20 finish at the Interscholastic Fleet Racing Nationals held in Charleston, S.C. Coaches Clemmie Everett and Gil Castagna […]
Amanda Hartzell Named Lions Club Athlete of the Year
Amanda Hartzell Named Lions Club Athlete of the Year By Mitch Silver Rarely, if ever, have so many outstanding Rye athletes been gathered out of uniform as were assembled for the annual Lions Club dinner at The Osborn June 11. Among the honorees, all Athlete of the Month winners chosen jointly by the […]
All in the Family
By Robin Jovanovich It was crunch week when we visited Resurrection Grammar School for a “refresher course” on what they’ve been up to of late. The upcoming school play was on the mind of Sr. Anne Massell, Principal. “One of our parents is a builder who owns the oldest house in Port Chester, and she […]
Renaissance Graduate 2017
By Janice Llanes Fabry Rye Neck High School senior Claire Julian won the National Gold Medal at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards at Carnegie Hall on June 8. Julian was one of 700 students honored that evening and one of only 55 fiction writers nationwide to earn the gold medal. “I didn’t recognize the […]