Residents of Tuxedo, NY face a peculiar situation. The local high school, built up over the last 30 years into a quietly elite academic institution, may lose a chunk of its student population next school year. Or not. Continue Reading

The Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce kicks off the new year with its first meeting Wednesday, January 9th at 6 p.m. This week’s chamber meeting takes place at LiveTechnology, located at 16 Sterling Lake Road in Tuxedo Park. Continue Reading

Monday afternoon and evening the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a public hearing on the permit application for the proposed Patrick Farm development along Rt. 202 at Rt. 306 between Pomona and Wesley Hills. The proposed multi-family housing project involves 497 large scale homes, including 410 multi-family apartments on a 200 acre property. Continue Reading

There’s a bit of Highlands history nearly everywhere surrounding Sloatsburg. Author and regional archeologist Ed Lenik led a group of enthusiasts on an historic walk through Ramapo Hamlet this past New Year’s day, the 31st year that Lenik has held the gathering and the first walk in the Torne Valley. Continue Reading

What happens when a hometown turns on its newspaper? Well, The Journal News is finding out these days as an editorial decision has gathered national headlines and harsh criticism. The now infamous interactive map of pistol permit holders in Rockland and Westchester counties has nearly everyone, from average readers to advertisers to Rockland officials across the spectrum, including the sheriff himself, lining up to throw stones.

Suffern Middle School students are using videoconferencing to learn about the ultimate act of bullying — genocide. In a project closely tied to the sixth-grade curriculum, Barbara Biddy and Jennifer Fruhling’s sixth-grade classes are taking part in the One Million Bones project, a social arts project promoted by NYC-based nongovernmental organization Global Nomads, Students Rebuild and CARE International to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. Continue Reading

The heady holiday feeling is fading and heads are turning to a fresh new year. School starts back up again Wednesday. And Thursday, students and staff of Sandy Hook Elementary School return to school for the first time since December 14 shooting.

The students will return to a newly rebuilt school in Monroe, Connecticut, six miles away from the Newton, Conn. building where the shootings took place. Continue Reading