Rockland County Legislative District 1 is the largest land wise in the county, and includes Sloatsburg. With Michael Parietti and Greg Julian canvassing for ballot signatures, it looks like November will see a ballot battle to represent western Rockland County.

Ballot signatures are a tricky thing, especially if a potential candidates doesn’t have the big political party apparatus behind them. It can be a long, lonely business to gather the 250 or so signatures needed qualify to be a candidate, especially with the clock ticking down to the mid-April deadline. Continue Reading

BOCES and SkillsUSA members gathered at Stop & Shop in New City recently to encourage shoe donations. The effort is part fundraiser, part community service. The SKillsUSA team competes in Syracuse in April. Sloatsburger Cassidy Hansen is at the front.

Spring is a time of housecleaning after a long winter of being pent up. A group of Suffern High School and BOCES students know just what you can do to those old shoes (though gently used).

But they sort of messed up our message and reasoning. Yes it’s to raise awareness of what we do at boces, but we’re doing the project to donate the shoes to a third world country raise funds for that women’s shelter on the flier and the SkillsUSA branch in Puerto Rico that was still affected by the hurricane

Sloatsburger and Suffern High School student Cassidy Hansen participates mornings in the Rockland BOCES CTECH Allied Health Program in the mornings, her second year in BOCES. She’s also a member of SkillsUSA through BOCES and will be going to their state competition in Syracuse at the end of April. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Spring clean by donating old shoes at the @sloatsburglibrary. Kudos to Sloatsburger Cassidy Hansen, who has helped organize a community service project to help BOCES and SkillsUSA. Drop off any old shoes at the #sloatsburglibrary before April 15. @sufferncentralsd @suffernhs @rocklandboces @tuxedochamber @sloatsburgchamber #shoedrive #donateshoes #sloatsburg

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SkillsUSA is a BOCES program that allows high school students enrolled in career and technical programs that provide educational programs, events and competitions that support career and technical education (CTE) in the nation’s classrooms.

The Donate Shoes box will be at the Sloatsburg Library through April 15, and is part of Hansen’s and her SkillsUSA BOCES team members’ effort to raise awareness and funds for their April Syracuse competition. The SkillsUSA competitions showcase students’ technical knowledge they have developed in their chosen career field

Cassidy, like many BOCES students, is very invested in career training, with most mornings spent either at Good Samaritan Hospital with or at the BOCES school location in West Nyack, while afternoons are devoted to Suffern High School.

If you have a few pair of gently worn shoes, well, think about walking them over to the Sloatsburg Library for drop off.

March has made for a blustery spring entrance. Don’t let the last chill winds of window keep you home. Join Harmony Hall Curator Geoff Welch Sunday as he hosts an afternoon celebrating the Vernal Equinox on March 24, from 2-4 p.m. There will be parlor music celebration the season. Continue Reading

Suffern Central School District stakeholders showed up in force at a special school board meeting at Suffern Middles School Auditorium and unanimously expressed support for Dr. Douglas Adams, who was recently suspended by the board under near-mysterious circumstances.

The special Suffern Central School Board meeting started late Monday, leaving plenty of time for the pro-Dr. Douglas Adams crowd to grow restless. While the Board of Education met in executive session, the Suffern Middle School Auditorium filled up with some 150 to 200 people, many there to support Superintendent Adams. Continue Reading

Summer camp for Sloatsburg students has always been something to look forward to, whether it took place at St. Mary’s Villa or at Sloatsburg Elementary School. Sloatsburg parents and students had a fun, friendly experience to plan for. This year Sloatsburg will not be hosting a Town of Ramapo mini camp. Sloatsburg Elementary School will be under construction with the school set for top to bottom rewiring. Continue Reading

Special Suffern Central School District Board of Education meeting that prefaced the Thursday, March 7, special board meeting during which Superintendent Dr. Douglas Adams was suspended.

The sudden suspension of Dr. Douglas Adams as Superintendent of the Suffern Central School District looks mysterious from the outside. The increasing animosity between current School Board President Amany Messieha Dgheim and Dr. Adams finally prompted legal action for relief on the part of Dr. Adams. Continue Reading