The East Ramapo School District monitor issue has been held up as a matter of “fairness” by some and called “undemocratic” by others. One segment of the East Ramapo community contends the district is woefully underfunded by the state due to its population of students with special needs, while the rebuttal to that argument contends that East Ramapo school funds have been funneled toward private religious schools. Continue Reading

Village of Sloatsburg officials, led by Mayor Carl Wright, announce local scholarships at recent Evening of Excellence at Suffern High School. / Photo courtesy of Ramapo Central High School

The recent Evening of Excellence got under way with a celebration of Suffern High School’s top 10% students, with Sloatsburg represented in the group of elite students by Hannah Consiglio, Jonathon DiVietro, James Dowd, and Dunahay Pereyra. Continue Reading

Review of American Native By Geoff Welch
Curator, Harmony Hall, Sloatsburg, New York

On Sunday, May 21, at the transplanted Hoboken Film Festival, now held at the Historic Paramount Movie Theater in Middletown, New York, the documentary American Native was screened. Directed by Steve Oritt, the film has gone through much re-editing since its rough-cut screening at Ramapo College over a year ago and is now making the rounds of film festivals throughout. Continue Reading

The Mayor of Suffern recently made the rounds, especially taking time out to thank the Suffern Police Department for “protecting the animals and pets” who live in the Suffern community. Continue Reading

Sunnyside’s Bar & Grill was the sight of a recent dinner celebrating Sloatsburg’s WWII veterans.

Sloatsburg’s fabulous five WWII veterans were celebrated during a recent dinner at Sunnyside’s Bar & Grill. Continue Reading

The kids are alright – Suffern Middle School 8th graders, that is. The annual trip to the nations capitol is finishing up its last day on Friday, May 15.

Students then traveled back home by bus and were picked up at the Rockland County Community Parking Lot. Continue Reading

Residents around Sloatsburg set up Saturday for the annual Village Wide Garage Sale. Don’t mind the cloudy skies. Continue Reading

The vacant Suffern VFW property has surfaced as a divisive issue for the Board of Trustees. The VFW agreed to sale the property to the village in an apparent win-win agreement that has now come under increased scrutiny.

Suffern Village Board meetings have lately become lively political theater with a dash of community confession. While Orange Avenue development project finally makes its way back onto the agenda at Monday night’s meeting, there are other, unresolved issues bubbling about under the Roberts-Rules-of-Order surface. Continue Reading

Tuesday promises to be Sloatsburg student day as two annual events take place in the Village. Continue Reading

The second most popular hobby in the U.S. is genealogy, next to the ever utilitarian gardening. Continue Reading