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On The Record: Show Me the Money
Record report details the city's top earners
Good morning subscribers. ☕This is your Wednesday, June 11 , Rye Record newsletter, curating some of the latest headlines across the city of Rye.
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💵💵 The three highest-earning Rye employees topped out at just over $200,000 in 2024, city records show.
Ex-City Manager Greg Usry earned the highest salary among Rye employees last year, commanding a $215,000 income. Usry stepped down from his position this March, after a 5-year run overseeing the day-to-day operations of the city. His salary rose from $195,000 when he was first appointed to an interim position in 2019.
Longtime City Engineer Ryan Coyne finished a close second, earning $212,000 in 2024. He was followed by Kristen Wilson, the city attorney, who collected $200,000.
The salaries were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request for all 172 city employees.
The employees include those in the police, fire and public works departments, as well as representatives in City Hall, the recreation, finance, and building departments, Rye Golf Club and the Boat Basin, the assessor’s office, IT employees, human resources, and the engineering and planning departments.
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-Today’s newsletter is curated by Christian Falcone
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IN OTHER NEWS
Safe and sound. Rye has finished third in a list ranking the safest cities in New York state this year, a newly released report concluded. It’s the city’s first time cracking the list of 10. -Mayra Kalaora
Makeover please. The Rye Historical Society is planning a $4 million restoration and expansion of the Knapp House, the 1670 structure that is the oldest residential property in Westchester County. -Mia Padovano
Kings. The Rye boys rugby team easily defeated Chaminade High School 31-5 to claim the Tier II New York state rugby championship Saturday in Mount Vernon. -Steven Kearney
AROUND TOWN
-Three area teenagers have received awards from the city Human Rights Commission in various ceremonies over the past few weeks, the last of which is scheduled to take place during the Rye City Council meeting tonight.
-Outgoing Rye Necks Schools Superintendent Eric Lutinski has been named the interim head of the Pleasantville School District, following the unexpected ousting of its current superintendent. Lutinkski is set to begin on July 1.
Off the Record: Rye Republican leaders have formally filed objections to 136 of Rick McCabe’s 445 signatures that he collected from city residents for his independent mayoral run. McCabe needs, in total, 336 signatures to be certified by the Westchester County Board of Elections in order to appear on the November ballot. Election officials are expected to review the grievances this week.
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COMMUNITY
One person’s trash is another’s treasure.
Some came carrying shopping bags or dusty bankers’ boxes.
Others balanced mysteriously-shaped objects in brown paper or bubble wrap.
Howard Husock (a writer for The Record) and his wife Robin Henschel, toted an oil painting by Husock’s uncle, Irving Guyer, who was a WPA artist. His work was sold out of a New York City gallery and some of his pieces are even in the Met. They hoped to get some information on the value of the painting in their possession.
-by Jackie Frederick-Berner
Harrison police shot down a black bear roaming through town last week.
POLICE & FIRE
A black bear was shot and killed by Harrison police last Monday after being spotted wandering through the yards of various homes on Columbus Avenue, just a few miles from Rye.
There had been another sighting — presumably of the same bear — six blocks away, on Sherman Avenue, earlier in the day, according to a statement posted by Harrison PD on social media. The post has since been removed from Facebook and Instagram.
The bear was “continually mobile” and went into front yards of homes on Columbus Avenue, wrote police in justifying their “difficult decision” to “humanely euthanize” it.
-by Mayra Kalaora
COMMUNITY
The Friends of Rye Town Park was able to fundraise enough to trigger a $200,000 matching grant.
The Friends of Rye Town Park has raised more than $450,000 to restore its tower building, the group announced Friday morning.
The nonprofit volunteer group launched a fundraising campaign for its Tower Building Restoration Project back on April 12 — with an initial goal of raising $350,000. But things changed in May, after the Friends group received a $200,000 matching grant from the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim Foundation.
-by Camille Botello
The Garnets beat La Salle 6-4 on Sunday.
SPORTS
The Rye baseball team is moving on to the New York state semifinals.
La Salle had the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning, but junior Diego Mosquera made a game-saving catch to preserve the Garnets’ 6-4 win Sunday.
Rye will next play Pittsford Mendon, a school near Rochester, at 1 p.m. Friday at Mirabito Stadium in Binghamton.
-by Steven Kearney