Future drivers all stripes – DPW workers, future police and fire pros, bulldozer operators and electrical line workers showed up on the Rye village green last Sunday to test drive […]
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Library Loaning Roku Devices with Paid Streaming Services
The Rye Free Reading Room is offering Roku players with paid streaming services for loan exclusively to Rye library cardholders. Availability starts next Monday, February 26, 2024. Each Roku stick […]
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Library Presents ’23 Mayor’s Award to Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer
The Rye Free Reading Room has presented the Library’s 2023 Mayor’s Award to Lincoln scholar an author Harold Holzer. Holzer and his wife Edith lived in Rye for 42 years. […]
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Giving Rye: Meet the Rye Free Reading Room
Giving Rye is a new occasional feature highlighting non-profits and community groups in and around the City of Rye. Today meet Chris Shoemaker of the Rye Free Reading Room. Your […]
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Library Gamble Pays Off with $70K Raised in First-Ever Casino Night
The Rye Free Reading Room gamble on its first-ever casino night fundraiser paid off with over $70,000 raised for library operations. The sold-out event attracted over 300 people on November […]
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6th Annual Spelling Bee W-I-N-N-E-R-S
If you heard the raucous behavior coming from the Rye Free Reading Room this past Saturday, with people shouting out various consonants and vowels, it was the book mecca’s 6th […]
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LETTER: Rye Library, Two Years After Ida Flood
In a letter to MyRye.com, the Rye Free Reading Room Board of Trustees President Kirstin Bucci reports on progress two years after the catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Ida, progress made […]
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Vehicle Fair Fundraiser Creates Traffic on the Village Green
Written by Will McCullough, edited by Aimée Plink The Rye Free Reading Room hosted its annual Vehicle Fair fundraiser this Sunday. Families flocked to the Rye Village Green as over […]
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New Parking Rules by City Hall & The Library
The parking lot located behind City Hall and adjacent to the Rye Free Reading Room will now have a maximum parking time of one hour, effective Monday, May 1st. According […]
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Singers Marta Eggerth and Jan Kiepura to be honored by the Rye Historical Society
The world-renowned singers Hungarian soprano Marta Eggerth and Polish tenor Jan Kiepura will be the subject of a video retrospective at the Rye Free Reading Room this Sunday, April 23rd […]