Sloatsburg Library Manager Annmarie McAnany has made a helpful Friend of the Library in NY State Senator David Carlucci (D-Rockland/Westchester).

Presented a new American flag to the @SloatPubLibrary that’ll soon be flying high over @Sloatsburgny @FiOS1NewsLHV pic.twitter.com/xOtzdkyv7K

— David Carlucci (@davidcarlucci) December 24, 2015

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Sloatsburg Elementary School second grade students embraced the holiday spirit this season, pitching in to the local food pantry and donating pajamas for the Scholastic pajamas drive — donations of books and pajamas help children in need and encourage a nice bedtime story. Continue Reading

The Ramapo Saltbox in Torne Valley marked the the Winter Solstice at sundown on Sunday.

The shortest day of the year has arrived which means a long night.

While many Britons celebrated the warmest Winter Solstice on record at England’s famed Stonehenge at Tuesday’s sunrise, the Ramapo Saltbox in Torne Valley hosted a gathering of its own Sunday at sundown to mark the occasion. Continue Reading

Pilgrim Pipelines skirts Sloatsburg in the Ramapo Mountains.

Monday’s DEC co-lead agency decision may cause some disappointment. The concern is the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline oil route criss-crosses sensitive and protected NY waterways and wetlands some 232 times. Continue Reading

The Suffern PBA/DARE Holiday Toy drive brought the community together and filled up the Suffern Community Center with good things for area kids in need. Photo via the Suffern PBA/DARE Holiday Toy Drive

Sunday, December 20, was the announced deadline for this year’s Suffern Police Department holiday toy drive, and the local community responded by filling the Village of Suffern Community Room with lots of gifts for girls and boys in need. Continue Reading

Here comes the shortest day of the, celebrated worldwide as the Winter Solstice.

And once again, the Friends of Harmony Hall and the the Town of Ramapo will welcome the public to a free signature event at Harmony Hall in Sloatsburg for the ocassion. Continue Reading

Local veterans and those who served in the armed forces will once again get a holiday give with a Christmas turkey and food basket at Sloatsburg Municipal Building on Saturday, December 19, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The Village of Sloatsburg will again join with the Veteran Angels Association to support veterans this holiday season. Sloatsburg’s and other veterans will receive holiday foods Saturday morning, December 19, from 9 a.m. through 11 a.m. at the Sloatsburg Municipal Building. Any local member of the armed services qualifies for the food giveaway. Continue Reading

Sloatsburgers have something to be thankful for this holiday season — a budget gift from the Village Board. Continue Reading

Article by Geoff Welch with material from Gale Pasha of the Rockland County Sierra Club

Long Swamp Trail Head skirts the Village of Sloatsburg and is the southernmost trail in Sterling Forest State Park — the Pilgrim Pipelines current route is proposed to cross the Orange/Rockland county lines near the trail head.

It was disclosed in November 2015 that Pilgrim Transportation of New York, Inc. had filed an application for permits to use the Right of Way for the New York State Thruway Authority as the main New York route for two proposed pipelines to run from Albany to Linden, New Jersey. Continue Reading

Executive Director of the Rockland County Drainage Agency Vincent Altieri is sworn in by Ernest S. Buonocore as Acting Village Justice during Monday’s special Suffern Village Board meeting. The Rockland County Republican party turned out for the occasion.

Call it the Ed Day difference. Or call it a strategy of strict party discipline and loyalty, i.e., the will to power.

Suffern’s Village Hall auditorium was fairly full for Monday evening’s reorganizational meeting that included a round of thanks to Rockland’s Republican establishment. Continue Reading