Good morning subscribers. ☕ This is your Wednesday, September 18, Rye Record newsletter, curating some of the latest headlines across the city of Rye.

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The other video. Miami Dolphins speedster Tyreek Hill has been plastered all over the news for his recent run-in with Miami police. Hill, on his way to the team’s season opener at Hard Rock Stadium, was pulled over by cops and temporarily detained. The entire controversy was caught on camera and immediately exploded online.

But it wasn’t the first time a Hill video went viral.

Last October, the star wide receiver hit a cartwheeling backflip following a 3-yard touchdown grab. He filmed the act on his own, grabbing the phone of a sideline NFL videographer — Kevin Fitzgibbons — and hitting record.

It also blew up.

Fitzgibbons, Hill’s friend as it turned out, became an overnight sensation. But he’s also the guy who grew up in Rye and graduated from Rye High. He left for the Sunshine State headed to college and hasn’t looked back.

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IN OTHER NEWS

Hometown hero. The Emmys honored Rye native Greg Berlanti with the 2024 Governors Award — which honors creators who have made profound contributions to TV — for his efforts increasing LGBTQ+ awareness. Check out The Record’s profile of Berlanti from June. -Sophie Hessekiel

Boo! The village of Sleepy Hollow, home of the mythical Headless Horseman, is gearing up for its favorite holiday season — Halloween — with an array of events and activities full of ghouls and goblins.

More than pickles. It’s hard to have missed the unexpected and meteoric rise of pickleball over the last few years — both in popular culture and around the clubs and recreation center in Rye. -Lee Sandford

AROUND TOWN

-Online registration for the annual Halloween Window Painting Contest on Purchase Street began Tuesday. This year’s event will take place on October 20 and also feature the inaugural “Pumpkin Parade on Purchase.”

-Eight seniors from Rye High School were recently named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program. The local group were part of roughly 16,000 students nationwide who were named semifinalists.

Off the record: The Rye Community Planning Collaborative, a mystery group that utilizes encrypted email, has submitted plans to the city outlining a mixed-use redevelopment proposal for the Rye Subaru site located on Boston Post Road.

An injunction filed by a local environmental group looking to stop the Nursery Field artificial turf project has been dismissed by a judge.

WEATHER

Today’s Weather Channel local forecast calls for a high of 75 degrees and mostly cloudy skies. 🌥 Check out the forecast for the rest of the week here.

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SPORTS

Rye Overpowers East Ramapo 48-22 in Offensive Showcase

Rye Quarterback Carson Miller hit Henry Shoemaker with a 75-yard touchdown pass on the team’s very first offensive snap and the Garnets didn’t look back en route to a 48-22 dismantling of East Ramapo.

The offensive explosion propelled Rye to their most points scored in a game in nearly five years — dating back to a 2019 regional quarterfinal matchup against Auburn when the Garnets dropped 49.

In his second career start, Miller went 7 for 10 with 316 passing yards, marking a whopping 45 yards per completion to go along with four touchdown passes. Through two games, Miller’s 605 passing yards are the most of any public school quarterback in New York state. 

-by Ian Colalucci

POLITICS

Otis Finally Has a Republican Challenger in Rye’s Katie Manger

After running unopposed in his last five general elections, Democratic state Assemblyman Steve Otis, of Rye, has a challenger in this November’s race for the 91st district: Katie Manger, vice chairwoman of the Rye Republican Committee.

Conceding that “this is a very tough district to win,” Manger said she felt driven to run to give voters an alternative to what she calls a “nefarious progressive supermajority” of Democrats that controls the levers of state government.

In a year of nasty name calling in electoral politics, neither Otis nor Manger made personal attacks on their opponent in interviews with The Rye Record.

-by David Hessekiel

OPINION

Time to Control Rye’s Deer Population

The paramount charge of government, by definition, is to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. At the top of many citizens’ lists are deer control measures. Now is the time to implement an action plan, and we have one that works.

Deer cause car accidents, leaving humans injured or dead and deer to suffer slow agonizing deaths. Deer spread Lyme tick that debilitates most who get bit.

Many Greenhaven homeowners are reluctant to let kids play in their yards for fear they will get bitten.

-by Chris Cohan

POLICE

Three Rye Teens Arrested for Shooting Pedestrians with High-Power NERF Bead Blasters: Police

Three Rye 16-year-olds were arrested for allegedly shooting people with a high capacity, high velocity water bead blaster, according to Rye police.

Cops responded to Forest and Oakland Beach avenues at around 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 2 after complaints of teen boys shooting pedestrians out of a white SUV with bead blasters.

Two victims were allegedly shot at and filed police reports, the department said, but neither required further medical attention.

-by Camille Botello