The Suffern Middle School 7th & 8th grade musical gets underway Thursday, March 9 and runs through Friday, March 11, with showtimes at 7pm at Suffern Middle School auditorium.

Give a hand to Miss Alice Biss Adams, musical director for the the Suffern Middle School 7th and 8th grade musical. Biss Adams’ students are staging Peter Pan March 9 -11, and the cast is nice and big and inclusive — that’s without taking into account the musicians and stage crew. Continue Reading

Calling on Sloatsburgers. Put your thinking caps on and get active.

2017 will see two seats open on the Ramapo Central School Board, and what better way to serve your community than to invest in helping improve and protect local schools? Continue Reading

The Ramapo Central School District has a visit from Rockland County Jewish orthodox community agent Yossi Gestetner during a late June 2016 Ramapo Central school board meeting.

Yossi Gestetner, a Jewish orthodox community advocate and public relations professional address a recent Ramapo Central School Board meeting about the district’s changes in its public transportation policy.

The Board of Education meeting was at the public comments portion, with part of the evening’s discussion focused on the district’s changes to its transportation policy for the upcoming 2016/17 school year. Continue Reading

Ramapo Teachers Association President John Canty addresses the room at a recent Ramapo Central School District board meeting during a discussion of public transportation policy. / Photo via RamapoTA video.

For many years the Ramapo Central School District provided deluxe transportation services for non-public school students. In the name of fairness, efficiencies and tax dollar savings, the RCSD policy has been changed. Continue Reading

Tuesday’s Ramapo Central School Board meeting marked the end of an era as Sloatsburg’s Thomas F. Bollatto, Jr. took his last turn as a Board of Education member. Continue Reading

Village of Sloatsburg officials, led by Mayor Carl Wright, announce local scholarships at recent Evening of Excellence at Suffern High School. / Photo courtesy of Ramapo Central High School

The recent Evening of Excellence got under way with a celebration of Suffern High School’s top 10% students, with Sloatsburg represented in the group of elite students by Hannah Consiglio, Jonathon DiVietro, James Dowd, and Dunahay Pereyra. 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

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 recent snow and ice and wintry weather knocking area residents off schedule, following are a few school notes and news items many might have missed.

Rockland County coaches showing their respect for @SuffWrestling coach, Mickey DeSimone. #lohudwrestling pic.twitter.com/U8JPGbT8xE

— EastRamapo Wrestling (@TitansWrestle) January 31, 2015

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