Rye Brook News

A Greenwich, Conn., based landscaping company's flat-bed truck overturned about 5:30 p.m. today on King Street in Rye Brook.

Two villages in Ramapo - New Square and Kaser - are the fastest-growing municipalities in the Lower Hudson Valley, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Brett August, a native New Yorker and executive sous chef at Doral Arrowwood Hotel in Rye Brook, New York, didn't think he would be leaving The Next Food Network Star in week 2. He struggled with the Esquire challenge in which he was supposed to create a recipe for the magazine's "Recipe for Men" section and was consequently sent home.

NEW YORK - Donald Fehr is retiring as head of the baseball players' association after more than a quarter-century in charge of the powerful labor union.

The ground outside the Rye Brook, N.Y., resort was covered with a December snow.

Hedge funds have been shaken by poor returns and the Madoff scandal, but that hasn't stopped exchange-traded funds from launching portfolios designed to capture the risk and return characteristics of hedge funds.

RYE BROOK: Stephanie Russo-Pastilha, associate executive director of Cerebral Palsy of Westchester has been named to the Business Council of Westchester's 'Forty Under Forty, Rising Stars' class of 2009.

RYE BROOK - A suspected drug dealer driving back to New Hampshire with his recently purchased stash and a loaded handgun was snagged by a Westchester County police detective who spotted the man driving erratically on the Hutchinson River Parkway, officials said.

A New Rochelle man who scratched a car ended up also facing a drug charge after police found cocaine on him, police said.

Recently eliminated The Next Food Network Star contestant Brett August stopped by to tlak about his experience on the show and to help us make aa delicious meal for Father's Day meal -- Pan-Seared Thyme Swordfish with Creamed Spinach and Homemade French Fries.

RYE: The members of Rye Community Synagogue recently elected officers and trustees for the 2009-2010 term.

RYE BROOK - Diplomats from several countries came to the Hilton Rye Town last night to help the Westchester chapter of the American Jewish Committee honor David Harris, the AJC's national boss and a self-made ambassador for the Jews of the world.

RYE BROOK - Gov. David Paterson yesterday told his fellow Democrats to 'never forget' it wasn't until last year Democrats took control over the state Legislature.

Phoebe Sherry of Rye Brook earned the Robert M. Stein Challenge Trophy for Outstanding Rider of the Year at Pegasus Therapeutic Riding's 28th Annual Horse Show.

RYE BROOK - Citing a long commute and family commitments, Blind Brook High School Principal Scott Bersin has resigned a year after he was appointed, making him the third principal in five years to leave the job.

AS many recession-racked communities slash their payrolls and cut services to survive the economic downturn, Joseph Carvin is promoting a more radical solution that would cost him his job: dissolving the Town of Rye in Westchester County, where he is the supervisor.

ALBANY - In recent weeks, Gov. David Paterson proposed cutting mandates on local governments, capping state spending and overhauling the state's ethics panel.

In recent weeks, Gov. David Paterson proposed cutting mandates on local governments, capping state spending and overhauling the state's ethics panel.

It's true: there's nothing we foodies like to sneer about more than established Food Network stars.

Dr. Sidney Freund, Greenwich's incoming superintendent of schools. On July 1, Dr.