With the NY Legislature scheduled to return to state budget negotiations Sunday, the Ramapo Central School District will also return to the budget table. Continue Reading

The Ramapo Detective was distracted, his phone insistently ringing a familiar Pearl Jam dirge while he talked PAL. Dennis Procter started the Ramapo Police Athletic League a few years back in response to severe East Ramapo School District budget cuts. He knew many of the students and wanted them to have a place to work out after school, a safe place to go that would also provide some sort of competitive outlet. Continue Reading

The Suffern girls track team’s indoor season ended with a bang last week — that is, if a season ever ends. Continue Reading

The Tuxedo Union Free School District awaits to hear the New York Board of Regents decision on the conversion charter process to create Tuxedo STEM Academy at George F. Baker High School.

Update: The NYS Board of Regents voted Tuesday, March 17, to return the application to the Tuxedo school district, leaving the Tuxedo Union Free School District and town with options explored during a March 12 Public Meeting.

Tuxedo students wore red and rallied around George F. Baker High School recently as the New York Board of Regents met in Albany to determine the Tuxedo STEM Academy Conversion Charter application, to no avail as the the Board of Regents committee denied the Tuxedo charter conversion. Continue Reading

Multiple agencies came to the aid of a suspected robber Sunday night, who plunged into the Ramapo River in Sloatsburg and got stranded on a rock.

On a night that reminded everyone of the bite of winter, a Sloatsburg local created a scene right of an episode of the popular shoot and chase show COPS. Continue Reading

Shadows of people outlined by the intense flames of the Old Mill fire light up the sky in Sloatsburg back in March of 1955.

The flames lit up the sky back on that windy March night in 1955. Winds blew along the natural canyon created by the Ramapo River and railroad tracks, much like the recent high winds of our own seasonal warming weather, and fed a fire that raced through what was then the Ramapo Piece Dye Works that housed the Schwartz Yarn Co. in Sloatsburg, NY, causing a conflagration visible from miles away. Continue Reading

With the first week of March blowing all cold and snowy, take a break with some Irish music Saturday at the Sloatsburg Library. Blues skies and warmer weather on on the menu for next week. Continue Reading

Most in Sloatsburg know Jenny Kirby from her long days and generous ways at Characters Bar and Restaurant, where she can often be found working the dining room floor evenings, helping out wait staff or just chatting with regular customers. Continue Reading

A recent Eagle Scout project repaired remnants of an entrance piller to the Sloatsburg Cemetery as well as cleaned some 50 veteran grave markers.

Boy Scouts working on earning Eagle Scout wings have been involved in various projects around Sloatsburg the past several years. Continue Reading

The Town of Tuxedo suffered the scrutiny of an assessment by the Times Herald-Record Sunday, which reported that behind “the facade of wealth and exclusivity, the town can barely pays its bills.”

Perhaps it’s a bane of bedroom communities, the lack of local commerce and identifiable cultural identity; but the corridor that winds through Sloatsburg and Tuxedo appears to be suffering from an economic malaise. There are any number of shuttered businesses along Rt. 17, some empty for years now. Continue Reading