Image via Tuxedo Farms website.

Between the pitch and the plan is a woody stretch of land with a rock crested hump of hill and small Village. Continue Reading

Educator Chuck Stead with Ramapo College students at the Torne Valley Medicine Garden braiding newly harvested ceremonial Sweet Grass.

Add the fresh aroma of newly cut Sweet Grass to your list of good Fall things. Continue Reading

(Updated 11/12) Could it be a case of canary in the coal mine or perhaps a season of As the Trophy House Rusts?

Hema Easley, writing for the Times Herald Record​, delves into the real estate market up in well-heeled hills of Tuxedo Park, where some 50 properties are reportedly for sale.  Continue Reading

For a long time Duck Cedar Inn just north of Tuxedo along Rt. 17 sat all lonely — more invisible duck blind than mini shopping mecca. Continue Reading

Local photographer Geoff Welch captured this view off the top of Bear Mountain. Welch will open his month-long photo exhibit at New City Library with a Friday the 13th afternoon performance, mixing music and photography.

Geoff Welch is known as a park and watershed advocate. But he’s also known for having his trusty digital camera at the ready to take a shot of the local farmers’ market or far hilly horizon. Continue Reading

Members of the Suffern High School Marching Band always get into the spirit of the season. Here they lead the Sloatsburg Halloween Parade down through the center of the Village.

While September weather warms the first days of November, red and yellow leaves continue to drop and fall. Sometimes they fall, floating lazily one at a time, while at other times a whole scattering races from the sky.  Continue Reading

Aptly named (see Hunger Games), Rockland County Legislative District 12 is composed of the Ramapo Villages of Airmont, Hillburn and most of Suffern. For many years Joe Meyers was the district’s legislative gadfly, who worked overtime for local issues he believed in. But Tuesday, November 3, will see voters choose a new representative. Continue Reading

After many interruptions and delays and local complaints of inconvenience, the final asphalt was put down and the long wait is over for the Montebello Road Bridge. Now it’s off to the backroads through Suffern and Montebello once again. Continue Reading

The 30th Annual Sloatsburg Halloween Parade got underway Saturday evening at Eagle Valley Road and Rt. 17, with the Suffern High School Marching Band leading the way, naturally.

There’s no real picture here of the Suffern Marching Band rising up from the street as it crossed over the Ramapo River bridge on Seven Lakes Drives.

The drums hammered in syncopation Saturday evening, with band members stepping down Seven Lakes Drive as they led the parade to its final destination at Sloatsburg Elementary School. Continue Reading

Jason Livanis wears several hats as cosmic tribe tarot card reader, home stager, and presenter of the past, present and future. 

Learn about your hidden life journey. Didn’t know you had one did you. Well, liven up your Halloween (or any party for that matter) by inviting Tarot card reader and all around home stager Jason Livanis, who relocated from Tuxedo to an historical Sloatsburg property in the process of renovation. Continue Reading