The call went out and five Sloatsburg veterans from the Greatest Generation answered and will fly to Washington, D.C. Continue Reading

With the NY Legislature scheduled to return to state budget negotiations Sunday, the Ramapo Central School District will also return to the budget table. Continue Reading

The Ramapo Detective was distracted, his phone insistently ringing a familiar Pearl Jam dirge while he talked PAL. Dennis Procter started the Ramapo Police Athletic League a few years back in response to severe East Ramapo School District budget cuts. He knew many of the students and wanted them to have a place to work out after school, a safe place to go that would also provide some sort of competitive outlet. Continue Reading

The Suffern girls track team’s indoor season ended with a bang last week — that is, if a season ever ends. Continue Reading

Suffern High School presents the spring musical How to Succeed in Business, which runs Thursday, March 19, through Saturday, March 21, at the Suffern High School Auditorium.

All those long rehearsals with cast, stage crew and orchestra pit musicians working to put on the big Spring Musical are about to pay off. Suffern High School will showcase its storied theater tradition with the Thursday night premiere of the musical comedy How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Continue Reading

Multiple agencies came to the aid of a suspected robber Sunday night, who plunged into the Ramapo River in Sloatsburg and got stranded on a rock.

On a night that reminded everyone of the bite of winter, a Sloatsburg local created a scene right of an episode of the popular shoot and chase show COPS. Continue Reading

Shadows of people outlined by the intense flames of the Old Mill fire light up the sky in Sloatsburg back in March of 1955.

The flames lit up the sky back on that windy March night in 1955. Winds blew along the natural canyon created by the Ramapo River and railroad tracks, much like the recent high winds of our own seasonal warming weather, and fed a fire that raced through what was then the Ramapo Piece Dye Works that housed the Schwartz Yarn Co. in Sloatsburg, NY, causing a conflagration visible from miles away. Continue Reading

Mid March is nearly here already, with Spring Break only a few weeks away. But the drab of a long winter still clings on. Two enterprising Ramapo Central School District teachers have banded together create the upcoming Family Night initiative, which encourages families to enjoy an evening together. Soon this winter will thaw and spring will have many students careening off toward the end of semester. Continue Reading

With the first week of March blowing all cold and snowy, take a break with some Irish music Saturday at the Sloatsburg Library. Blues skies and warmer weather on on the menu for next week. Continue Reading

Hayward’s Deli chipped in for a bit of community camaraderie this past Saturday morning. The Suffern High School’s chapter of Youth for Hospice put a tip jar out at the local deli and marketplace on Rt. 17 in Sloatsburg — and four hours later had collected some $200 for Hospice of Rockland County. Continue Reading