The cold, dark winter months have not kept the Village of Sloatsburg Board from working on a range of activities. The Board of Trustees meets Tuesday night, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall.
The Woodmont Properties Ramapo Planning & Zoning Board Public Hearing continues Tuesday, April 8, at 8 p.m. at the Ramapo Town Hall. The item is currently number 6 on the agenda.
Reflection through a window: Members of the Sloatsburg Village Board of Trustees say the pledge of allegiance to start a meeting.
Trustee Thomas Buckley reported at the last board meeting that he has been working assiduously on trying to corral all those old utility poles still doubling up all over the village. Verizon appears to be the hold up. Orange and Rockland planted new 45 foot power poles throughout the village in the fall as part of a distribution line upgrade project.
116 of the remaining old poles have Verizon equipment still hanging on them. Trustee Buckley reported that O&R is pressing Verizon to co-operate in moving the equipment to the new power poles.
Residents can help the effort of old power pole removals by calling Verizon to request the removal of any old, unused service pole in their neighborhood. Call Verizon and ask for the poles to be removed. Pause and repeat.
Congratulations go out to Thomas F. Bollatto, longtime Sloatsburg Village Clerk and dean of the Ramapo Central School Board (and Sloatsburg’s only member). Bollatto will be celebrated as the 2014 Suffern High School Alumnus of the Year. The annual dinner will be held on Saturday, May 17.
Sloatsburg has teamed up with St. Joan of Arc for a special razzle-dazzle fireworks display in during this year’s Carnival, scheduled for May 23-25. The fireworks, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, May 25, will be in celebration of Sloatsburg’s 85th birthday, born way back on the eve of the Great Depression. Mayor Carl Wright has declared that the fireworks display shall run some 20 minutes. Be there.
The Annual Memorial Day Parade follows the Carnival on Monday, May 26, at 10 a.m., where Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugabe will be the featured speaker.
Next week is the end of Sloatsburg Fire Chief Nello Vacchiano’s run as leader of the department. The Tuesday, April 1 meeting will usher in a new chief and officers. Long live the chief.
Now, everyone get over to Sunnyside where Chef Nello presides.
