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(PHOTO: Rye experienced flooding on Sunday, September 13, 2026 after more than three inches of rain. Rye Fire rescued individuals from a stranded vehicle on Playland Parkway below the Boston Post Road overpass.) The City of Rye experienced flooding after the rainstorm that started overnight Saturday into the first half of Sunday, September 13, 2026. According to Precipitation Inc., local rainfall amounts were in excess of 3 inches.

Giuseppe Spoto, of Rye, NY passed away on Sept 9, 2026 at the age of 86. Born in Alessandria della Rocca in Sicily, Italy on March 10, 1940 to Pietro and Angela Spoto. He immigrated to the United States in 1958 working as a sous chef at an Italian restaurant at night while attending school during the day to learn English. Through hard work and determination, he eventually landed his dream job at Luna’s Restaurant on Mulberry Street in Little Italy in New York City.

Sonia Helena Kragh passed away peacefully on August 10, 2026, at the age of 82 in her daughter’s home in Syracuse, NY. Born on January 23, 1944, to Czechoslovak diplomat Dr. Antonin and Sonia Obrdlik. She spent her early years in Czechoslovakia before her family relocated to New York in 1947 for her father’s role at the United Nations. Sonia grew up in Rye, New York, graduating high school with honors in 1961. She spent many cherished summers at her family’s farm in Buell’s Gore, Vermont.

Going Native is our gardening series highlighting the contribution of native plants to building resilient landscapes. MyRye.com will introduce you to native plant experts that will tell you ways to get started with a small garden patch, a complete property or just a few garden containers. Today we speak with Dominique Biondi of Ecologic. MyRye.com: Many homeowners in Rye have landscapers that do some or all of the work taking care of their property.

(PHOTO: Layered Hues. Sunrise drifts across the sky and shore. By Stacey Massey, author of First Light, Rye.) Art of Rye is a feature of MyRye.com where we will occasionally feature artwork of Rye, New York. See below for directions on how to recommend an artist or art work for display. About the Photo Layered Hues. Sunrise drifts across the sky and shore. By Stacey Massey, author of First Light, Rye. About the Artist (PHOTO: Rye photographer Stacey Massey.

(PHOTO: The 2025 Rye Field Hockey team. Credit: Maureen Tsuchida.) The Rye Field Hockey team is coming off a season in which they won 16 games and reached the sectional championship game as the #1-seed in 2025, setting expectations rightfully high for 2026. Although they are off to a slow start at 1-2, the coaching staff knows there is enough talent on the roster to make another postseason run.

(PHOTO: Photo of sportscaster and actor Bill Stern. Public Domain via Wikimedia.) RyeGPT People of Note is a series highlighting individuals who have a connection to the City of Rye. In the series we use artificial intelligence to prepare a biography and explain the individual’s connection to Rye.

(PHOTO: (Jon) Hamm on Purchase Consideration of a request from Apple Studios, LLC, to use a section of parking spaces in Car Park 4 to film an episode of Your Friends & Neighbors in Rye on September 17, 2026. In June, the show took over Purdy Avenue to film scenes inside Sunshine Coffee Roasters.) The city council’s agenda for its meeting at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 is out.

(PHOTO: Rye High School counselor Honor Fagan shares reflections about her brother, Welles Crowther, during the school’s September 11 commemoration.) Rye City School District marked the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, through moments of remembrance, reflection and learning centered on honoring the lives lost and the courage, service and selflessness demonstrated that day.

(PHOTO: Rye PD gave chase to an individual in this car suspected of mail theft from the mailboxes in front of the Rye Post Office on Purdy Avenue on September 10, 2026.) Scammers like email and they like snail mail too. Rye PD says it thwarted suspected mail theft from a mailbox in front of the U.S. Post Office at 41 Purdy Avenue in downtown Rye.