Posted on 09 June 2014 by Editor
Update: The Town of Ramapo Planning & Zoning Board voted 7-0 for approval of the Ramapo Woodmont Hills site plan. The development approval process must move through the New York Department of Environmental Commission and Department of Transportation before construction on the project would begin.
Talk to some locals and the take is that the deal is done, with the final vote just an official show piece. Others believe that more people in Western Ramapo will automatically equal more dollars for businesses. Then there are those that roll their eyes and ask who’s going to pay for the infrastructure upgrades. Pause. Answer: your taxes. Continue Reading
Posted on 09 June 2014 by Editor
Turtle clan Chief Vincent Mann from the Ramapough Lenaape is given a friendship gift while Chuck Stead and Chris St. Lawrence look on / Photo by Geoff Welch
The sun shone bright and hot Sunday as people from across Ramapo, and beyond, gathered to celebrate the huge new medicine garden in Torne Valley. Covering half an acre, the Ford Motor Company built a large, raw-post and fenced-in garden that will feature Sweet Grass for basketry and smudging as well as herbs and other native plants. Continue Reading
Posted on 08 June 2014 by Editor
They came from all over the past two weekends, pumped up and ready to face any number of obstacles, including rocky hills, climbing walls, carrying logs, clambering under treacherous barbed wire, and, finally, jumping through fire to become a finisher. Continue Reading
Posted on 05 June 2014 by Editor
It seems to be a seasonal thing. In August of last year the Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood of Sloatsburg was plagued by a series of car and home burglaries. The culprits in those acts were later caught carrying petty loot from a house in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. Continue Reading
Posted on 03 June 2014 by Editor
They can dot the local landscape like broken teeth in a poor man’s mouth — vacant buildings, be they big or small. Are they unoccupied or abandoned? And what’s the difference, anyway? Continue Reading
Posted on 28 May 2014 by Editor
Proposed Pilgrim Pipeline Co. oil pipeline that winds through the Ramapo Aquifer.
Many people have heard faint rumors of the Bakken oil boom in western North Dakota, with Williston, ND officially dubbed as Boomtown, USA. Continue Reading
Posted on 27 May 2014 by Editor
The helping hands of Meals on Wheels Rockland set up a soup counter at the Sloatsburg United Methodist Church Food Pantry Tuesday afternoon to serve up helpings of homemade chicken soup. Continue Reading
Posted on 24 May 2014 by Editor
Sewer construction continues in the Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood of Sloatsburg, including the bang of sudden rock blasting.
Some people in Pine Grove Lakes felt the blast Friday afternoon. Mid day there was a low loud bang – such as a big tree falling nearby – that reverberated throughout the neighborhood, from the low flatlands to higher up by Pine Grove Lake itself. Moments later, the pop of a smaller blast followed, but wasn’t nearly as foundation-shaking as the first. Continue Reading
Posted on 23 May 2014 by Editor
Sloatsburg Village Historian Harrison Bush stands at the entrance to Sloatsburg Cemetery.
With the long Memorial Day weekend here, let’s look back a moment to the recent annual Sloatsburg Elementary School fourth-graders history tour to historical points throughout the village. Continue Reading
Posted on 22 May 2014 by Editor
A calendar slot time change wasn’t able to alter the weather for this week’s annual St. Joan of Arc Church Carnival at Sloatsburg’s Community Fields. But don’t let a little rainy weather prevent you from enjoying local carnival lights and rides — the carnival runs through Sundy, May 25. Continue Reading
