The Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood of Sloatsburg will enjoy calm this week, before the storm of street paving. Continue Reading

MyHarriman.com and the Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce will host a May 9 Suds & Speakers event at the Tuxedo Train Station to discuss trail culture and the local economy / Photo of sunset at the Big Hill Shelter at the Beaver Pond Campground by Andrew Lois.

Suddenly it seems everyone wants to be a gateway to the parks and lay claim to the vast network of New York State trails and vistas in and around Rockland and Orange Counties. Continue Reading

There are any number of scatological figures of speech one might use when referring to sewer systems. But sewers create opportunity. Where sewers go, development follows and money flows. Those pipes carry more than waste — they carry connections and green-flowing mana. Continue Reading

Local Cub Scouts joined in the great Rockland Cleanup by picking up around the Sloatsburg Train Station and Municipal Building. / Photo courtesy of Cub Scouts Pack 46

The Cub Scouts of Tuxedo and Sloatsburg are cleaning up around here.

As part of the Keep Rockland Beautiful campaign, the scouts from Cub Scout Pack 46 cleaned up around the Sloatsburg municipal building and train station, picking up the trash that other folks discarded. Continue Reading

Regional watershed experts, professionals and guardians will gather at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, NJ, for the 20th Annual Ramapo River Watershed Conference. Continue Reading

For the first time in decades, the Village of Sloatsburg will not be represented on the Ramapo Central School Board. Continue Reading

Two homes on Schoolhouse Road next to George F. Baker High School in Tuxedo were gutted in an early Sunday morning fire, leaving two families displaced. The Town of Tuxedo has started a community drive to help both families. / Photo courtesy of William A. Sweet

The Tuxedo mutual aid call went out to the Sloatsburg Fire Department just after 2 a.m. Sunday morning. A house fire on Schoolhouse Road, next to George F. Baker High School, had spread next door to a neighbor’s property and soon enough fire departments from the surrounding communities were on the call. The Sloatsburg Ambulance Corps also responded to the emergency. Continue Reading

Hudson Valley Honor Flight participants gathered at Stewart International Airport for Mission #7 to Washington, D.C. as part of the Hudson Valley Honor Flight program. / Photo courtesy of Mike & Daphne Downes

Veterans of WWII and the Korean War from throughout the Hudson Valley gathered together recently for a day of celebration and more. Continue Reading

The narrow roads in Hillburn were filled with cars Tuesday evening as a large turnout of students and parents made their way to the Ramapo Central School Board meeting. Continue Reading

NY/NJ Trail Conference Executive Director Ed Goodell and Mahwah Mayor Bill Laforet cut the ribbon to open the organization’s new headquarters at the renovated Darlington Schoolhouse.

The old fieldstone Darlington Schoolhouse used to teach Mahwah children, until the 1940s and $150 cost per pupil caused the Mahwah school district to abandon the building. Continue Reading