Fast-growing NYC-based e-commerce company Warby Parker continues its move into bricks and mortar with plans to open a new state-of-the-art optical facility along Route 17 at Sloatsburg’s door step.

Trendy New York City-based designer eyewear company Warby Parker made a splashy announcement Wednesday, June 22, related to a new optical facility in the works near Sloatsburg. Continue Reading

As the school year winds down this week, Suffern Middle School students lined the hallways and bleachers Friday, June 17, to show one last blast of school spirit. The occasion was the 2016 version of Lip Dub, a project promoted by the SMS Kindness Crusaders, with English teacher Nicole Tarife serving as group advisor. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Volunteer Ambulance Corps arrived Tuesday morning to the scene on Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg, where near midnight the Sloatsburg Fire Department discovered a burned man (who died at the scene) by a car on fire.

The Town of Ramapo Police have called the midnight car fire at the end of Waldron Terrace in Sloatsburg “definitely suspicious.” Continue Reading

The Lazy Candle is Sloatsburger Samantha Remmell’s hand-made candle business. She hopes to one day see her soy candles and colorful merchandise on the shelves of her own store. Visit the Lazy Candle at the Tuxedo Famers’ Market Saturday, June 18, at the Tuxedo Train Station.

After attending Rockland Community College, Sloatsburger Samantha Remmell got busy making candles, a craft she learned to love and in the process turned into a business. Now comes the hard part. Continue Reading

Longtime Sloatsburg resident George Heller went through Hell and back during his days fighting for the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) of the 101st Airborne Division during WWII.

Sloatsburg resident, decorated WWII veteran and ex-chief of the Sloatsburg Fire Department, George Heller died on June 8 and was buried Monday, June 13 at the FW Loescher Veteran’s Cemetery in New Hempstead, NY. Click the photo to view George Heller’s WWII recollections as told to the West Point Center for Oral History.

Heller’s WWII adventure sounds like something out of Captain America — he participated in a few combat infantry air jumps but they all counted — one at Normandy before D-Day and one near Veghel for Operation Market Garden. And then, during the battle of the Bulge, Heller was hit by German counter-attack shrapnel and seriously wounded at Bastogne, France. Continue Reading

The Suffern Fire Department fought a fierce house fire Friday, assisted by mutual aid from surrounding fire departments. The blaze at Bridge Street is still under investigation, according to the Suffern Poice Department.

The Friday night Bridge Street fire in Suffern saw a house go up in flames while many area fire departments responded in mutual aid. The Suffern Police Department responded within a minute of the emergency 911 call that came in around 9:40 p.m. — but when police officers arrived, the house was already burning, with heavy flames coming from the top floor. Continue Reading

The Robert and Mary McCready House on Route 17 in north Sloatsburg, also known as Westwind, was built in 1889 and is currently being restored to its former prominence by Edward Marse. The home is listed on the New York and National Registers of Historic Places, only the 3rd Sloatsburg residence to be listed.

Sloatsburger Ed Marse has nearly always had an interest in antiques and local history. Marse often visited the old Blue Barn Antiques while growing up, searching through the many valuables stored in the 70 foot long former livery barn on the Waldron property — currently under renovation by Michael Bruno and the Tuxedo Hudson Company. Continue Reading

Members of the Sloatsburg Volunteer Fire Department lead the 2016 Memorial Day Parade. The SFD held its first official meeting on November 27, 1923, at the Henry Club which still stands on Route 17 and was once a thriving community gathering place for dances and other entertainment.

While other village Memorial Day celebrations and parades across the Hudson Valley were cancelled due to early morning threatening weather, Sloatsburg carried on with its scheduled program — to the delight of many. Continue Reading

Seniors and family members enjoyed a lunch at the Sloatsburg Senior Center, complete with birthday, cake as residents who turn 90 years old this year were celebrated.

There must be something to Ramapo Mountain  water in the Village of Sloatsburg. On a recent May Wednesday, the Sloatsburg Center Center celebrated those community members who turned (or will turn this year) 90 years old. Some five Sloatsburgers were on hand for the the day’s festivities, which included a lunch and birthday cake. Continue Reading

Heading into the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, Sloatsburg has a full schedule. Tuesday kicks things off with the 16th Annual Recognition of Graduating Seniors for the Class of 2016. Tuesday evening, starting at 7:30 p.m.

The Village of Sloatsburg Board of Trustees celebrates Sloatsburg’s graduating seniors Tuesday, May 24, at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall.

The program takes place at Sloatsburg Village Hall and is a popular and traditional  send-off for local high school seniors,  many of whom started school just down the road as students at Sloatsburg Elementary School. Continue Reading