Fireflies and Climate Change
Right in Our Backyard Fireflies and Climate Change By Bill Lawyer Ever since I started writing articles about nature and the environment, I’ve been getting questions about the fate of fireflies, vis-à-vis global climate change. Fireflies (which are actually a type of beetle) have always symbolized to me the delicate beauty and amazing variety of […]
Photographer’s Journal 7/14/17
Photographer’s Journal Every summer when Jay Mahoney returns to Rye, he heads to Edith Read Sanctuary and many other neighboring natural areas, camera in hand, to capture the extraordinary wildlife. On his most recent visit, the avian population came out to give him a wing up.
Hot Diggity Dog
Around the Garden Hot Diggity Dog By Chris Cohan It’s July and the Fourth is past. Leftover hot dogs are in the freezer. My hands, stiff from pulling weeds, feel relief wrapped around a morning mug of coffee, I ponder the age-old question: “Why are hot dogs sold in packages of ten, while buns are […]
Rye’s Tim DeGraw Stars for Yale at College Baseball World Series
Rye’s Tim DeGraw Stars for Yale at College Baseball World Series By Mitch Silver Rye High 2015 graduate and Yale centerfielder Tim DeGraw brought the Garnets and the Elis to the College World Series last month for only the second time in history. The first time it happened, George Herbert Walker Bush (who married […]
Rye Little League Team Routs Dobbs Ferry
Rye Little League Team Routs Dobbs Ferry, But Succumbs to Sherman Park By Melanie Cane In their first game of the summer, July 9, Rye’s 11U Little League team pummeled Dobbs Ferry 10-2. But the following evening, on their home field at Disbrow Park, they were on the losing end of a 10-1 blowout against […]
Post-Season Honors Pile Up for Local Athletes
By Mitch Silver The games are over, the races won. In some instances, the trophies in their cases are already in need of polish. Nevertheless, New York State’s sportswriters and other worthies have been handing out post-season kudos to athletes from Rye High, Rye Neck, and Rye Country Day School. Here are a […]
Rye 12 & Under Team Wins District Championship
By Melanie Cane On July 11, after a ten-day break, Rye’s undefeated 12U Little League team played a doubleheader against Port Chester at the Ardsley Little League field for the District 20 Championship title. Despite terrific pitching by Jack Margiloff, Rye lost the first game 2-1. The Pirates scored their runs in the bottom […]
The Rye Neck High School Class of 2017
On June 22, Rye Neck High School held its 122nd Commencement. After the 127 members of the Class of 2017 proceeded to the tune of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance, Dr. Scott Mosenthal, welcomed a big and enthusiastic crowd of family and friends. The Valedictorian was Fraser Shaw, class president. Emily Crook was the Salutatorian. Both […]
What Happened to TV Commercials?
Watchwords What Happened to TV Commercials? By Mitch Silver It occurred right under our noses. Those TV commercials we used to hate (the <we> I’m using here refers to <Baby Boomers>; if you’re younger than that, try to keep up) have morphed into something else altogether. More than half a century ago, brand-new FCC Commissioner […]
Art in the Park
Rye Town Park visitors, on June 13, were fortunate to hear artist Damien Vera talk about his shining sculpture <Cope>. The Rye Arts Center had the sculpture installed in the park last August under its public art initiative program and invited Vera for the occasion. The 14-foot-high metal sculpture sits on a circular concrete base […]