There always seems to be something good going on at the Sloatsburg Library. Whether a seasonal craft or special program, the library thrives as a center for the community. Library staff is ready to celebrate the season at the end of April with a special afternoon of food, family and fun called the Spring Fling Thing. Continue Reading

Local Girl Scout Troop 40494 at its Village Board presentation.

Local Girl Scouts promoted a spring cleaning of Sloatsburg at a recent Village Board meeting.

Troop 40494 presented its Keep Sloatsburg Shining Project which mapped hotspots around the village where garbage and other roadside trash collects. The bus stop at the Sloatsburg Library received a frown face from the Troop as did an area along Seven Lakes Drive and the entranceway to the Community Fields. Continue Reading

The Smith House or Sidman’s Tavern along Route 17 in the Ramapo Pass is an important New York and Sloatsburg historical asset that also has a plot of pre-Revolutionary War Cemetery and last vestiges of the Clove Road, or Revolutionary War Highway.

It was mid-May last year when the chainsaws bit the air in a flurry of activity at the site fast-becoming Ramapo Woodmont Apartments. The massive apartment development along Route 17 just south of Sloatsburg, NY, is located at the former, longtime home base of the Ramapo Land Company, and, as an historical note, is the last bit of a land tract that dates back to the very beginning of what is now Sloatsburg. Continue Reading

Freshly repaired and repainted Village of Sloatsburg historical markers, which were delivered back to the village by Glenn Sungela of Congers, NY.

The project started back in October after a tip at a Harmony Hall event. Members of the Historical Society of Rockland County were attending a fall event and mentioned that Glenn Sungela of Congers, NY, volunteered his time to refurbish historic signs in Rockland and Bergen counties. Continue Reading