The various Rockland County Executives candidates kicked the issue around at a recent Rockland Water Coalition debate.

And Rockland residents splash, bathe, drink, and waste the clear elixir of life most every day. With weather patterns turning this bit of east coast geography into a sort of new Portland (rain and then more rain), how Rockland gets its future water is an important issue.

United Water has bet the farm on its solution, a proposed massive desalination project slated for the Hudson River’s Haverstraw Bay. But the issue is a sticky, tricky topic, and sentiment ranges from outright opposition, to more study please, to it’s a done deal. Continue Reading

“No one in, no one out,” said a Ramapo police officer standing guard at one of the two back entrances to the Town of Ramapo offices Wednesday afternoon, reported Rockland Newsday reporter Sarah Armaghan.

Get ready for a village wide rummage sale this Saturday. The Sloatsburg Scholarship Fund has put together a “town wide” garage sale that will involve some 30 and counting area families throughout Sloatsburg this Saturday, May 18. Each garage sale participant will be included in a special event directory that will be available the day of the event at Hayward’s Deli and Sterlington Station. Continue Reading

Rain or shine there is something going on somewhere around the village this weekend. From a Tuxedo art show and afternoon tea, to flowers aplenty, the Farmers’ Market, and Mother’s Day Sunday dinner. Continue Reading

There’s something about laid-back Sterlington Station in Sloatsburg that seems to attract action.

Thursday afternoon, three men crashed a car on the NY Thruway and then made their way to Sterlington Station, looking for directions. It was their good fortune to be helped by Tim McAleese, who can be found most days working the deli counter and register — as McAleese just casually goes about his business and tries to help anyone who walks through the door. Continue Reading

Last week Sloatsburg residents and businesses were checking power chords and wall outlets as the village experienced a sudden afternoon power surge.

And then just as businesses were booting back up, the Sloatsburg Volunteer Fire Department responded to multiple brush fires — several along the NY Thruway and one along Seven Lakes Drive. Continue Reading

Sunshine is shining and drawing the adventurous in droves out for some Harriman State Park recreation. So Sterling Station along Seven Lakes Drive picked a picture perfect day to put on a party.

Chrissy and TJ have put out the welcome to all comers today for a good old-fashioned pig roast, Sloatsburg style in the parking lot at Sterlington Station. 90lbs of pig will be cooked for the day’s activities. It costs just $30 for participants to get their fill of BBQ and other kitchen fare food. The price includes all the canned & draft beer you’d like to savor as well. The Sterlington Station fun starts now and goes through 7 p.m.

Happy hour prices will be in effect for all other drinks.

Sloatsburg’s own DJ Armstrong will throw down tunes and there’ll be an open mic. So get out and enjoy. Friends, sun, fresh pork, Sloatsburg. The works. Go on. Get.

Sterlington Station is located at 23 Seven Lakes Drive, Sloatsburg. The Saturday, May 4, Pig Roast costs $30 per person and participants pretty much get their fill of food and drink. For more information, call (845) 753-2662.

First sign up. And then set up. Next sit back and sell some stuff. Or just pick up a directory and go exploring.

Sign up now and get your spring clean on Saturday, May 18, when yards and garages unite in common cause. Pitch in when the Sloatsburg Scholarship Fund hosts a “Town Wide” garage sale. Register now and be included in the official Garage Sale Directory that lists all village wide sale locations, with maps and items of special interest. Continue Reading

The Ramapo Central School Board of Education met Tuesday evening to a standing room only audience. With people once again lining the halls, walls and meeting room itself, the BOE was set to make its final proposed budget presentation to the public and then take a vote on the item. Continue Reading

Earth Day began way back in 1970 with a near end of the world fervor. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring about pesticide use was just eight years old and industrial pollution was a very real and serious problem in the U.S.

Earth Day was inaugurated back when people would freely toss trash out car windows, no problem, sailing it down the street, littering roadways and highways. Paint sludge was dumped and buried in Ramapo’s own Torne Valley. The nascent environmental movement resulted in groundbreaking laws, including major revisions of the Clean Air Act in 1970 and Clean Water Act in 1972. Continue Reading