Rye Brook News

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For more than 55 years the Westchester Chordsmen Chorus has performed for thousands of fans throughout the County.

Can a college party "tradition" explain the theft of Christmas ornaments in three Sound Shore communities? Purchase College students caught with two car loads of Christmas ornaments 5 a.m. Sunday at a Port Chester diner told Port Chester police that taking ornaments for a theme party at school was an annual tradition, and that all would have been ...

Every year, fewer and fewer living Americans remember Pearl Harbor. I mean remember the terrible event firsthand, like it happened yesterday.

VALHALLA - For Megan Busenbark, volunteering to help the Ronald McDonald House at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital was personal.

RYE BROOK - Four homes in the village have been touched by the Grinch this week and Christmas decorations stolen.

IndexIQ, a leading developer of index-based alternative investment solutions, will ring The Opening BellSM at the New York Stock Exchange this morning in a ceremony that will mark the November 17, 2009 launch of the firm's IQ ARB Merger Arbitrage Exchange-Traded Fund , the first merger arbitrage ETF .

The town of Rye will see a 15.2 percent decrease in taxes next year, which may seem like a hot news flash until you consider that the savings to the average taxpayer will amount to little more than the cost of a deluxe hamburger and a beer.

WHITE PLAINS - About 50 people volunteered on Thanksgiving morning at Grace Church Community Center to prepare hundreds of dinners for disadvantaged people around the county.

Westchester County's fractured government structure continues to astound me. At the Rye Town Board monthly meeting Nov.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will eventually bang out some sort of recognizable text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Water bills could go up by $20 a month for residents of southern Westchester County, and $8 a month for residents of Rye, Rye Brook and Port Chester, following a bid by United Water companies to raise rates.

Re 'Rye Brook officials spend as if there's no recession,' Nov. 17 Community View by Sam Marcus: Year after year, Rye Brook's village taxes are among the lowest in the county.

Perched on top of his owner's shoulders with a crowd of onlookers taking pictures, "Cheddar" was as cool as his kind comes.

Keynote speaker Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, reminisced about how he got his start in politics, the first time he met Bill Clinton, and the current political environment.

Solution: hire a caterer. Westchester's bounty of local experts offer the perfect antidote to the stress that occurs when your gathering gets too big, or your schedule gets too busy.

Like to play tennis? Great. In the midst of the deepest recession since 1929, Rye Brook taxpayers spent $200,000 to refurbish the village courts that were quite playable.

It isn't easy to stage William Gibson's play, 'The Miracle Worker,' about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

WHITE PLAINS: The New York Performing Arts Center, a new children's performing arts training center at 196 Maple Ave., will present its first 'Showstoppers' youth musical theater production of 'Company Greats,' at 8 p.m. Nov.

PORT CHESTER: The Port Chester-Rye Brook-Rye Chapter of Hadassah will celebrate Hanukkah at 2 p.m. Dec.