Posted on 28 April 2014 by Editor
This year’s Ramapo Central School Board budget process has ended. The Board of Education voted Thursday, April 24, to adopt the proposed 2014-2015 budget, which totals $130,372,327 and represents a 1.85% budget-to-budget increase from the 2013-14 school year. The tax levy levy increase will tick in at 0.82%.
Chronic underfunding by New York State, mostly due to the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) law, has forced the Ramapo Central to spend down its savings, resulting in a “planned deficit.”
Posted on 17 April 2014 by Editor
Sloatsburg Elementary School staff greet the announcement of the school’s new principal, Joseph Lloyd.
Sloatsburg Elementary School was in the spotlight during the most recent Ramapo School Board of Education meeting at Cherry Lane Elementary School. Superintendent Dr. Douglas Adams introduced the district’s candidate to lead Sloatsburg Elementary School, after sorting through some 120 applicants and various interviews. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2014 by Editor
This past week new fancy street signs got planted in Sloatsburg along the central village corrdor. A project that has taken nearly a year from planning to installation (some of that delay was due to winter), the new spring signage comes in part from a downtown revitalization grant. Continue Reading
Posted on 05 April 2014 by Editor
Woodmont Properties General Counsel Stephen Santola presents the plans for Ramapo Woodmont Hills apartments.
The Woodmont Properties development team came locked in and prepared to close the deal at the late February Town of Ramapo Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Board. The meeting before the PZB was for a First and Final Approval for Ramapo Woodmont Hills apartments, a proposed 384 unit 16-building rental apartment complex that would occupy some 50 acres south of Sloatsburg, NY. Continue Reading
Posted on 02 April 2014 by Editor
The Rockland County Chief’s association acknowledged area firefighters and handed out awards this past week, a time when firefighters across Rockland County were celebrated.
Photo from collage at SloatsburgFire.org
New City Fire Department Chief Kenny Flynn was named Chief of the Year. Gordon Wren Sr., former chief of the all-volunteer Hillcrest Fire Department and member for some 70 years, was awarded the Jerome Trachtenberg Service Award, presented to the person who promotes outstanding service to the Rockland County Fire Chief’s Association. Continue Reading
Posted on 01 April 2014 by Editor
Many people vividly remember when Hurricane Irene rolled through Western Ramapo. In the early morning hours of August 29, 2011, there was a sudden, suffocating smell of fuel oil that washed through Sloatsburg, causing numerous complaints and emergency calls to 911 and the local fire department. Continue Reading
Posted on 30 March 2014 by Editor
With all the construction going on around Sloatsburg, sometimes it can be difficult to decide which crew is with which company or outfit.
“If you run over a guy wearing lime green then you were aiming for him,” said Village of Sloatsburg Trustee Dan O’Leary about the DPW’s new lime green work vests.
Posted on 27 March 2014 by Editor
Ready. Set. Go this coming Saturday to the Sloatsburg Public Library because it’s celebrating the roll out of a brand new website that will feature many enhanced patron services.
The Sloatsburg Public Library invites patrons to drop by on Saturday, March 29, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to learn about the library’s programs and enhanced services.
Posted on 25 March 2014 by Editor
The Green in Pine Grove Lakes gets fenced in by Montana Construction. The common property is due to be used as a yearlong construction site for neighborhood sewer work.
Pine Grovers in Sloatsburg will wake up to a fenced in construction site smack in the middle of the neighborhood’s common green space. With sewer blasting commencing in the area by Rockland Sewer District 1 contractor Montana Construction, heavy equipment and street debris will be part of daily life for the residents of Sloatsburg’s only homeowner association neighborhood. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 March 2014 by Editor
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. Continue Reading
