Rye Country Day Boys’ Hockey Wildcats Top Harvey, Again, to Win FAA Title
By Mitch Silver “These are the ones you remember.” Rye Country Day Head Coach Brett Farson recalled his own coach saying those words in the moments after his team’s late surge overcame The Harvey School to defend their Fairchester Athletic Association crown by a score of 7-4. “Today was definitely one of […]
Rye Lions Club Tabs Brendan Egan as Athlete of the Month
By Mitch Silver Brendan Egan has earned the February Lions Club Athlete of the Month award for his efforts in the classroom and the pool. Nominated by Head Swim Coach Steph Schilling and seconded by the Rye High School Athletic Department, Egan will join the other monthly winners in the race for Athlete […]
Rye Area Winter Roundup Win or Lose, Rye’s Teams Were Competitive All Season Long
By Mitch Silver In a local winter sports season highlighted by big wins — the Rye Country Day Boys’ FAA repeat on the ice — and stunning losses—top-seeded Rye High’s ouster from the Boys’ Basketball playoffs by No. 8 Ardsley — a lot of strong performances might have gone under the radar. Here […]
Rye High Boys’ Ice Hockey Garnets’ Season: Much More to Life Than Wins
By Melanie Cane In their final game of the regular season on February 7, the Garnets Ice Hockey team hosted New Rochelle. Rye held a 3-2 lead at the end of the second period, but the Huguenots stunned the Garnets in the third, scoring three consecutive goals, and taking their first lead of the game. […]
Rye High Boys’ Basketball Garnets Fall in Playoffs to Ardsley
By Mitch Silver Pity the poor seeding committee. After Rye High beat the three-time defending league champs Byram Hills in overtime, 60-57, at the end of the regular season, the Section 1 savants made the 17-3 Garnets the top seed in Class A. Byram dropped all the way to 5th, behind Panas, […]
Rye High Girls’ Basketball The Belles of the Gold Ball
By Melanie Cane For the second time in three years, the Rye Girls’ Basketball team brought home the Section 1 Class A Gold Ball championship. The third-seeded Garnets’ journey to the championship against fourth-seeded Harrison began with a come-from-behind buzzer beater against top-seeded Somers at the County Center on February 27. Sophomore Teaghan Flaherty […]
If it’s Legal, Can it Be This Good?
The Parsons Street Players raised the bar on high school musicals last weekend with their production of “Legally Blonde”. And the jury is in: Elle Woods charms them every time. — Photos by Anne and Joel Darelius
Mission Accomplished
Resurrection School kindergarteners completed another successful space mission last month. In a program created by teacher Mrs. Laura Romeo, the children learn about the solar system, create a spaceship, and then “blast off” at the Resurrection Space Center. This year, in addition to a crowd of proud parents and grandparents, Dr. Timothy McNiff, […]
Stop the College Admissions Madness
By Gretchen Althoff Snyder Pullquote: What we are experiencing is the “spiritual and moral damage of treating college as a high-end shopping mall.” Celebrated New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Bruni spoke to a packed “Heard in Rye” workshop in the Rye Country Day School gymnasium on March 1 about the utter […]
Oh, the Places He Took Us
Every March 2, the National Education Association honors the late, great Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) with an event called Read Across America. All three of Rye’s elementary schools celebrated the children’s author/illustrator, and, at Milton, the students came dressed as their favorite Seuss character — Thing One or Two, Horton and his Who, to […]