The Sloatsburg Library has been getting ready for a double dose of summer activities with the kick off of Summer Reading on the beginning of its Midweek Madness program next week. Continue Reading

Summer has arrived in a Sloatsburg, wet and cool, and with it the last days of school for most students in the Suffern Central School District. The final days of the school year at Sloatsburg Elementary School also marks the end of popular Principal Dr. Joseph Lloyd’s tenure with the Suffern Central School District. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Library has stepped up to sponsor the popular springtime Village Wide Garage Sale which brings together residents across the village. Continue Reading

Memorial Day is rooted in the time when families fought together and died divided. The “late rebellion” days of the Civil War when flowers and ribbons and other mementos were placed on Civil War soldier graves. The practice spread rapidly of memorializing brothers, fathers and husbands, fallen wives and kids who died in the war. Continue Reading

After all of the executive sessions and hours of meetings preparing budgets and district strategy, the Suffern Central School District has a budget and board vote on Tuesday, May 21. Check for a polling place near you. Sloatsburgers can vote at Sloatsburg Elementary School from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Continue Reading

There always seems to be something good going on at the Sloatsburg Library. Whether a seasonal craft or special program, the library thrives as a center for the community. Library staff is ready to celebrate the season at the end of April with a special afternoon of food, family and fun called the Spring Fling Thing. Continue Reading

Local Girl Scout Troop 40494 at its Village Board presentation.

Local Girl Scouts promoted a spring cleaning of Sloatsburg at a recent Village Board meeting.

Troop 40494 presented its Keep Sloatsburg Shining Project which mapped hotspots around the village where garbage and other roadside trash collects. The bus stop at the Sloatsburg Library received a frown face from the Troop as did an area along Seven Lakes Drive and the entranceway to the Community Fields. Continue Reading

The Smith House or Sidman’s Tavern along Route 17 in the Ramapo Pass is an important New York and Sloatsburg historical asset that also has a plot of pre-Revolutionary War Cemetery and last vestiges of the Clove Road, or Revolutionary War Highway.

It was mid-May last year when the chainsaws bit the air in a flurry of activity at the site fast-becoming Ramapo Woodmont Apartments. The massive apartment development along Route 17 just south of Sloatsburg, NY, is located at the former, longtime home base of the Ramapo Land Company, and, as an historical note, is the last bit of a land tract that dates back to the very beginning of what is now Sloatsburg. Continue Reading

Rockland County Legislative District 1 is the largest land wise in the county, and includes Sloatsburg. With Michael Parietti and Greg Julian canvassing for ballot signatures, it looks like November will see a ballot battle to represent western Rockland County.

Ballot signatures are a tricky thing, especially if a potential candidates doesn’t have the big political party apparatus behind them. It can be a long, lonely business to gather the 250 or so signatures needed qualify to be a candidate, especially with the clock ticking down to the mid-April deadline. Continue Reading

March has made for a blustery spring entrance. Don’t let the last chill winds of window keep you home. Join Harmony Hall Curator Geoff Welch Sunday as he hosts an afternoon celebrating the Vernal Equinox on March 24, from 2-4 p.m. There will be parlor music celebration the season. Continue Reading