Month: May 2016

Transit of Mercury makes way for total solar eclipse
Features

Transit of Mercury makes way for total solar eclipse

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or the first time in nearly a decade, the planet Mercury passed between Earth and the sun on Monday, May 9, allowing people from across the globe to view our solar system’s smallest planet from further than 50 million miles away. And while the excitement around the celestial event was […]

Ode to joy
Opinion Sports

Ode to joy

There’s something about high school sports that makes a big moment hard to shake. On Saturday morning, I was sitting in the dugout with some of my men’s baseball teammates in between games and, as we often do, we started talking about some of our best sports memories. We’re not […]

Dean McCarthy throws a pitch against Rye on May 7 at Silver Lake Park. The Harrison senior was singled out before the game as one of two Harrison recipients of the Andrew Gurgitano Memorial Scholarship awards and picked up the win with 5.2 innings of work. Photo/Mike Smith
Sports

Rival tops Rye in tribute game

On Saturday, May 7, Harrison and Rye briefly put aside their bitter on-field rivalry to honor the memory of a former Huskies pitcher as the two clubs took part in the second annual Andrew Gurgitano Memorial Game at Silver Lake Park in West Harrison. Prior to the game, both teams […]

Alternate side of the street parking holidays
Opinion

Alternate side of the street parking holidays

There are now 34 holidays on which New York City suspends its parking rules, ranging from Ash Wednesday to Chinese New Year to Eid al-Adha to Diwali. That’s quite the holiday buffet. Which is not to mention Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Washington’s birthday and Veterans Day. […]

New Rochelle High School plans to move away from gender-specific graduation robe colors to be inclusive toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. File photo
Education

New Rochelle High School gowns spark unrest

In an attempt to be inclusive to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, New Rochelle High School is moving away from assigning seniors gender specific graduation robes. In a letter sent home to parents of graduating seniors, NRHS Principal Reginald Richardson explained that the adoption of a single color cap […]