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Rye Resident Walks in Space

  Yesterday a Rye resident went for a space walk. Nicholas Patrick, a NASA astronaut who considers Rye his home town, went for his third and...

Councilwoman Parker Needs to Keep Day Job But Walks Away with 50Gs on Millionaire Show

  Rye Councilwoman Catherine Parker, who owns Parkers Travel Store on Purchase Street, walked away with $50,000 in winnings on Wednesday’s episode of “Who Wants To...

Is Councilwoman Parker a Millionaire? Find Out Today at 12:30pm on ABC-TV

You can't make this up.   (PHOTO: Rye Councilwoman Catherine works on becoming a millionaire. Photo courtesy of Valleycrest Productions Ltd.) Rye Councilwoman Catherine Parker appeared yesterday on...

Rye’s Nicholas Patrick Headed to Space for Second Time

  (PHOTO, ABOVE: Rye's Nicholas Patrick, far left, with the crew of the upcoming STS-130 space shuttle flight.) Nicholas Patrick is about to rack up...

Rye Resident Tina Strobos: Hero Saved Jews During World War II

Theall Road's Dr. Tina Strobos is featured in the January issue of Psychiatric News for her heroic work saving more than 100 Jews in Amsterdam...

New NBC Boss Grew Up in Rye

Maybe he watched Rye TV or worked in its studio at Rye High School. The new boss at NBC, Comcast's Chief Operating Officer Stephen Burke,...

Rye Loses Jeanne Sinnott

Thanks to Rye's Ted Carroll for writing this remembrance. Jeanne A. Sinnott - past President of the Rye Board of Education and past President of...

Rye Off The Record: A-Rod and Kate Hudson Lunch at Ruby’s

Alex A-Rod Rodriguez, who had a 15th inning walk off home run in last Friday night's Yankee game against Boston, walked in to Rye...

Rye’s Marlboro Man is Dead

Rye's own Marlboro Man is dead at age 90. George Weissman, who joined Phillip Morris as a PR man in 1952 and rose...

In Rye, It’s Mass, Then Mass of Cash

(PHOTO: Charles E. F. Millard. Ping pong anyone?) Rye residents Charles E. F. Millard and David Mullane have been in the news recently. Millard,...

Rye Fire Past Chief Wickham Dead at Age 67

Rye Fire past Chief John Wickham has passed away at age 67. He served the Rye Fire department for professionally for 20 years...

Rye’s John Thain Featured in PBS Frontline on US Economic Collapse

You can watch the entire PBS Frontline on the US economic collapse. Or just watch the John Thain excerpts. The show starts with John...

Who Really Designed Bethpage Black? Rye Man Has Answer.

Golf's US Open is in swing out at Long Island's Bethpage Black course. Until 2002, golf architect A.W. Tillinghast was credited with designing the...

Obama Photographer from Rye

Back in 1980, then student, aspiring photographer and Rye resident Lisa Jack took photos of a fellow Occidental College student, Barry. Twenty nine years later,...

5:30 Candlelight Vigil Today (May 5th) at Claire’s Climb

The Rye/Westchester Community will be meeting today at Claire's Climb in honor of the passing of Claire Gormley Collier of Stamford, CT, sister of Rye...