
Hyperlocal news for Rye, Harrison, and Rye Brook, New York
Hyperlocal news for Rye, Harrison, and Rye Brook, New York
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Latest reporting from the Community desk.
Community
Leo Rockas, a 97-year-old Rye resident, Shakespeare and Jane Austen scholar, and decades-long Red Cross blood donor, died at Greenwich Hospital following a brief illness; services will be held Aug. 21-22 in Rochester, N.Y.

Community
Rye Playland will debut Scorpios, a 42-passenger pirate ship swing ride built by German manufacturer Metallbau Emmeln, at a noon ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 13, marking the park's first new ride addition of the 2026 season.

Community
Engineering firm Barton & Loguidice has detailed how it will replace 42 trees with 46 native species and keep salt out of Blind Brook as part of the Rye Nature Center's proposed new driveway, ahead of the project's third Planning Commission hearing on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

Community
Leo Rockas, a 97-year-old Rye resident, Shakespeare and Jane Austen scholar, and decades-long Red Cross blood donor, died at Greenwich Hospital following a brief illness; services will be held Aug. 21-22 in Rochester, N.Y.

Community
Leo Rockas, a 97-year-old Rye resident, Shakespeare and Jane Austen scholar, and decades-long Red Cross blood donor, died at Greenwich Hospital following a brief illness; services will be held Aug. 21-22 in Rochester, N.Y.
Community
Harrison High School junior Briana Stilo, 16, served on the FIFA World Cup ball crew at Sunday's final between Argentina and Spain at MetLife Stadium, earning her spot through NYCFC volunteer work and a five-hour-a-day training camp in Atlanta.

Community
Rye families can mark the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final on Sunday, July 19, with a kids' celebration at the Westchester Children's Museum at Playland Park and a free large-scale watch party at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla.

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