There’ll be music and hikers and market goods all around Sloatsburg this weekend.
Residents can show NY Assemblymember Ellen Jaffe support Saturday during her stop at the Suffern Farmers Market from 10 a.m. through 1 p.m.
Announcing 250K funding for the emergency overpass in Suffern pic.twitter.com/WohsyIMDgp
— Ellen C. Jaffee (@EllenCJaffee) October 9, 2014
Jaffe, a Suffern resident, represents District 97 in Rockland County and recently was hard hit by some advocates in the Orthodox community for her support of state monitor oversight in the troubled East Ramapo School District. Public Relations specialist and spokesmeister to the Rockland Orthodox community, Yossi Gestetner, has continued his highly critical campaign against Jaffe, calling Jaffe his “former Assembly representative” and suggesting that the Jaffe-co-sponsored Assembly bill would have “crushed civil liberties of the Orthodox community.” Gestetner and fellow Orthodox advocate Benny Polatseck, who also is highly critical of Jaffe, recently published an op-ed in The Journal News that promoted combining all Rockland County school districts into one large school district, which could then amply fund students. As many as 75% of ERSD school-age students attend some form of private school, mostly yeshivas, and NY’s state aid formula is based on public school student attendance and community wealth ratios. Jaffe will be available to talk to constituents at the market until closing at 1 p.m.
Children’s painting crafts this Saturday at the Market! http://t.co/mVV0a49VSO @suffernvillage @sloatsburgny — Suffern Farm Market (@suffernfarmmkt) July 15, 2015
Don’t forget the Tuxedo Farmers’ Market will provide fresh produce and lots of local good stuff at the Tuxedo Train Station, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Plenty will be drinking the wine and music at Torne Vineyards during Saturday’s all-day music festival.
If words are your thing, look no further than the Ice Factory on Lafayette Street in Suffern will host the Suffern Slam Society poetry fest Saturday, starting at 6:30 p.m.
On Sunday, the Suffern Fire Hose Company will host its 4th Annual Car, Truck & Bike Show on Washington Avenue in Suffern. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and costs spectators $5.
