Most in Sloatsburg know Jenny Kirby from her long days and generous ways at Characters Bar and Restaurant, where she can often be found working the dining room floor evenings, helping out wait staff or just chatting with regular customers. Continue Reading

A recent Eagle Scout project repaired remnants of an entrance piller to the Sloatsburg Cemetery as well as cleaned some 50 veteran grave markers.

Boy Scouts working on earning Eagle Scout wings have been involved in various projects around Sloatsburg the past several years. Continue Reading

The Town of Tuxedo suffered the scrutiny of an assessment by the Times Herald-Record Sunday, which reported that behind “the facade of wealth and exclusivity, the town can barely pays its bills.”

Perhaps it’s a bane of bedroom communities, the lack of local commerce and identifiable cultural identity; but the corridor that winds through Sloatsburg and Tuxedo appears to be suffering from an economic malaise. There are any number of shuttered businesses along Rt. 17, some empty for years now. Continue Reading

With the red menace of Valentine’s Day bearing down, there was another, more local, dust up that just happened — the opening of the movie Fifty Shades of Grey at Suffern’s Lafayette Theater. Continue Reading

Look for your fresh eggs and homegrown meats as your favorite vendors meet at the Tuxedo Train Station Saturday. The Winter Indoor Market gathers at 10 a.m. on Valentine’s Day and runs through 2 p.m. Continue Reading

Kathryn Harrison first lit up the literary world with her memoir The Kiss, a controversial tale of seduction and desire that bared her private life to the world. With the explosive don’t look-don’t look-I must look incestuous story of life with father came much public scrutiny. Harrison responded by doing what writers do — continued to write. Continue Reading

New York State Assemblyman Karl Brabenec takes his oath of office before an audience of Sloatsburg Elementary students on January 16 / Photo courtesy Ramapo Central Schools

Sloatsburg Elementary students got a front-row glimpse of government in action as witnesses of the ceremonial swearing-in of New York State Assemblymember Karl Brabenec in their school gymnasium on January 16. Continue Reading

The Suffern track teams flexed a bit of early season muscle at the annual Suffern Indoor Invitational meet last week. The Mounties hosted schools from all over the Rockland County and the Hudson Valley at Rockland Community College on Friday, January 16, with the girls team taking first place while the boys finished third. Continue Reading

Hudson Valley Honor Flight is helping fly WWII veterans to Washington, D.C. for day trips to various national monuments.

It’s been 70 years now since the U.S. officially entered WWII, after declaring war on Japan the day after Pearl Harbor in 1941. Continue Reading

Cottages designed by noted architect Bruce Price dot the hamlet district in downtown Tuxedo.

Traces of Tuxedo’s orginal DNA dot the town along the Rt. 17 corridor, all leading up to Tuxedo Park, of course.

The village that became Tuxedo Park was founded by tobacco tycoon Pierre Lorillard IV as a vacation and recreational outpost for well-heeled New York society too tired to make it up to Newport, RI. Continue Reading