The Mayor of Suffern recently made the rounds, especially taking time out to thank the Suffern Police Department for “protecting the animals and pets” who live in the Suffern community. Continue Reading

Sunnyside’s Bar & Grill was the sight of a recent dinner celebrating Sloatsburg’s WWII veterans.

Sloatsburg’s fabulous five WWII veterans were celebrated during a recent dinner at Sunnyside’s Bar & Grill. Continue Reading

The kids are alright – Suffern Middle School 8th graders, that is. The annual trip to the nations capitol is finishing up its last day on Friday, May 15.

Students then traveled back home by bus and were picked up at the Rockland County Community Parking Lot. Continue Reading

Residents around Sloatsburg set up Saturday for the annual Village Wide Garage Sale. Don’t mind the cloudy skies. Continue Reading

The vacant Suffern VFW property has surfaced as a divisive issue for the Board of Trustees. The VFW agreed to sale the property to the village in an apparent win-win agreement that has now come under increased scrutiny.

Suffern Village Board meetings have lately become lively political theater with a dash of community confession. While Orange Avenue development project finally makes its way back onto the agenda at Monday night’s meeting, there are other, unresolved issues bubbling about under the Roberts-Rules-of-Order surface. Continue Reading

Tuesday promises to be Sloatsburg student day as two annual events take place in the Village. Continue Reading

The second most popular hobby in the U.S. is genealogy, next to the ever utilitarian gardening. Continue Reading

The Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood of Sloatsburg will enjoy calm this week, before the storm of street paving. Continue Reading

MyHarriman.com and the Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce will host a May 9 Suds & Speakers event at the Tuxedo Train Station to discuss trail culture and the local economy / Photo of sunset at the Big Hill Shelter at the Beaver Pond Campground by Andrew Lois.

Suddenly it seems everyone wants to be a gateway to the parks and lay claim to the vast network of New York State trails and vistas in and around Rockland and Orange Counties. Continue Reading

There are any number of scatological figures of speech one might use when referring to sewer systems. But sewers create opportunity. Where sewers go, development follows and money flows. Those pipes carry more than waste — they carry connections and green-flowing mana. Continue Reading