Note: Update on this particular incident – per a representative at First Niagara Bank, the bank notified all affected card holders and issued new cards.

As Mad-Eye Moody from the Harry Potter series might say, constant vigilance. Continue Reading

With the NY Legislature scheduled to return to state budget negotiations Sunday, the Ramapo Central School District will also return to the budget table. Continue Reading

The Ramapo Detective was distracted, his phone insistently ringing a familiar Pearl Jam dirge while he talked PAL. Dennis Procter started the Ramapo Police Athletic League a few years back in response to severe East Ramapo School District budget cuts. He knew many of the students and wanted them to have a place to work out after school, a safe place to go that would also provide some sort of competitive outlet. Continue Reading

Some days the Sloatsburg Public Library parking lot is so full that it makes one want to pull over to see what’s going on. Community participation is at the top of the list of the Library’s Manager Annmarie McAnany. 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

The Tuxedo Union Free School District awaits to hear the New York Board of Regents decision on the conversion charter process to create Tuxedo STEM Academy at George F. Baker High School.

Update: The NYS Board of Regents voted Tuesday, March 17, to return the application to the Tuxedo school district, leaving the Tuxedo Union Free School District and town with options explored during a March 12 Public Meeting.

Tuxedo students wore red and rallied around George F. Baker High School recently as the New York Board of Regents met in Albany to determine the Tuxedo STEM Academy Conversion Charter application, to no avail as the the Board of Regents committee denied the Tuxedo charter conversion. Continue Reading

Multiple agencies came to the aid of a suspected robber Sunday night, who plunged into the Ramapo River in Sloatsburg and got stranded on a rock.

On a night that reminded everyone of the bite of winter, a Sloatsburg local created a scene right of an episode of the popular shoot and chase show COPS. Continue Reading

Shadows of people outlined by the intense flames of the Old Mill fire light up the sky in Sloatsburg back in March of 1955.

The flames lit up the sky back on that windy March night in 1955. Winds blew along the natural canyon created by the Ramapo River and railroad tracks, much like the recent high winds of our own seasonal warming weather, and fed a fire that raced through what was then the Ramapo Piece Dye Works that housed the Schwartz Yarn Co. in Sloatsburg, NY, causing a conflagration visible from miles away. Continue Reading

Kim and Conrad and all the rest of the cool kids take the stage Thursday night in Suffern Middle School’s Spring Musical production of Bye Bye Birdie. Continue Reading