Rye Town Park and the Oakland Beach area could soon see an extensive overhaul. The Rye Town Park commission, which sets policy at the park, will mull over proposals from six applicants intent on taking over operations of the park after a recent solicitation for qualifications of potential developers and […]
Month: March 2016
Women’s Day panel talks digital media leadership
In celebration of International Women’s Day, a panel of five female entrepreneurs and business leaders discussed a range of issues, but focused mainly on women’s influence in the tech and media sectors. The panel, titled “Women in Emerging Digital Media Leadership,” was assembled on March 8 at The Rye Arts […]
Mad about March
I think I have to come up with a new strategy for picking my March Madness brackets, because my old one just isn’t working. For years now, I’ve employed the novel approach of actually watching the college basketball regular season, getting to know the strengths and weakness of a few […]
The hundred years’ war in Brownsville, Brooklyn
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou could argue that our modern era began 100 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn. In a squat building that no longer exists, a pretty and soft-spoken mom named Margaret opened an office where women could get something they’d never been allowed to obtain before: birth control. The place wasn’t called […]
Talking Business: With Michele Thomas
Her warm and disarming personality seems a perfect fit for Michele Thomas’ relatively new position as executive vice president of Osborn Home Care, a business unit of the venerable Rye-based Osborn Retirement Community. Home care, in a nutshell, has become a popular, growing segment of the health care market; an […]