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On The Record: When God and NYC came calling
Christ's Church rector leaves for The Big Apple
Rye Record
August 28, 2024
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God’s vineyard came calling. Kate Malin always had an affinity for New York City. It was where she launched her acting career, met her husband, and raised their three children.
It’s also where she began her more intimate relationship with God.
Malin, the rector at Christ’s Church Rye, is stepping down for the same position with the Church of the Heavenly Rest in The Big Apple.
But the decision wasn’t easy.
Torn over whether to leave what she had helped build in less than seven years in the small Westchester city, Malin searched for answers. She also turned to the words of theologian Frederick Buechner.
His words, Malin said, left her feeling “a dawning awareness that God has work for me to do in another location, another corner of God’s vineyard, as we say.”
Her final day at Christ’s Church — or this corner of God’s vineyard — is Sept. 8.
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IN OTHER NEWS
Summer in Paris. Gus Rodriguez, who grew up in Rye and learned to row at RowAmerica Rye, was at the Olympics as the spare rower for the U.S. men’s team.
Score! The Rye City School District has unveiled its new robot striper, which uses GPS technology to map out field lines, in anticipation of the fall sports season kicking off.
Net win. The Rye Sustainability Committee recently formed RYE100, aligning with an international effort to reduce carbon emissions and reaching net zero by 2040.
AROUND TOWN
-Podcaster Kim Berns sits down with the founders of EpicLight Beauty, a skincare makeup brand, to discuss their focus on uplifting women over the age of 35.
-Rye police plan to strictly enforce speed limits with kids returning to the classroom next week. Speeding in 20 mph school zones, in particular, will be monitored.
Off the record: The Playland Pool remains indefinitely closed to patrons since the tragic drowning death of a 5-year-old boy earlier this month.
The city has proposed $95 million in infrastructure projects over five years known as its Capital Improvement Plan.
-curated by Christian Falcone
WEATHER
Today’s Weather Channel local forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a high of 92 degrees in Rye. ⛅ Check out the forecast for the rest of the week here.
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George Latimer sat down with The Record recently to talk about his June congressional primary victory over controversial incumbent Jamaal Bowman.
POLITICS
In late June, George Latimer found himself in a Manhattan green room at CNN, making small talk with superstar politico David Axelrod as he waited to be interviewed about his 16th District Democratic congressional primary election.
It was a surreal moment for Latimer, the Westchester County executive who is the product of a working-class Mount Vernon family and a veteran of nearly four decades in Rye, Westchester, and New York state politics.
How had he ended up with the eyes of the nation upon him, Latimer wondered. Would he stand up well to a live grilling on national television by anchor Kaitlan Collins?
-by David Hessekiel
SCHOOLS
Patrons ride a ferry tour on the Long Island Sound seas and listen to history come alive.
People young and old lined up on the great pier at Rye Playland to board the Adm. Richard E. Bennis on Saturday, Aug. 17, stepping onto a brand new historical ferry tour.
A picture-perfect day, with a slight breeze and calm waters, the local ferry, nearly at capacity, “sailed” along Westchester’s Sound Shore.
Barbara Davis, co-director of the Westchester County Historical Society and city historian for New Rochelle, served as tour guide on the one-hour journey into the past.
-by Justine Pascutti
Members of the Tuesdays at 10 organizing committee.
COMMUNITY
Forming new connections can be challenging for everyone, but it’s often especially difficult for men. A new men’s group, Tuesdays at 10, is seeking to make it easier.
As the name suggests, the organization will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, once a month, and meetings will feature a speaker from within the community.
“We want to see this group grow and become a stable part of the town,” said Campbell Gerrish, one of the group’s founding members.
-by Erin McAward
OPINION
At least 112 demolition permits have been issued by the city since January 2019, Building Department records show.
By now, you may have come to recognize the telltale signs of a Rye house about to disappear. A small ranch house on a large lot; windows boarded up; an external electric meter and, of course, a dumpster.
If house teardowns seem to have become common in Rye, that’s because they are.
City records show that, since the beginning of January 2019, no fewer than 112 demolition permits have been issued. They are a significant part of our real estate market. Per census housing records, that amounts to some 2 percent of all owner-occupied homes.
-by Howard Husock