Sloatsburg — Sloatsburg Fire Department trucks went racing up Council Crest to Hillside Road Thursday afternoon, responding to a sudden car fire at 6 Hillside Road. The owner had started his car, momentarily stepped back into his house, then returned to find his 1994 Cadillac smoking and in flames. As fire trucks arrived, loud booms from popping car tires could be heard in the Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood. Thick, choking smoke drifted downwind from the charred vehicle as masked firemen hosed off the car. Continue Reading

Food drive bags appeared attached to Sloatsburg residents’ doors Sunday, promoting a holiday food drive for the local UMC Food Pantry. The plastic bags make it very easy for residents to contribute without even leaving their house. Just fill the bag with a few items and reattach to the front door for pickup before noon on Sunday, December 18. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Public Library is digging deep into the digital age with its new circulation and catalog upgrade, Enterprise. Due to go online this Thursday, December 8, the Enterprise catalog system, a product of SirsiDynix, one of the world’s largest providers of library management and software services, will be available throughout the entire Ramapo Catskill Library System. The new RCLS catalog system replaces the outdated Horizon. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Village Board met for its annual reorganization meeting Monday night, December 5, where the Village Board made year-long, and in some cases, multi-year appointments, to an empty Village Hall. None of the appointees attended the meeting. All Village Trustees were present, as was Village Clerk and Treasurer Thomas Bollatto and Village Attorney Joel Grossbarth. Continue Reading

Most days somewhere in Sloatsburg is the ever present beep beep backup sound of a construction truck. Heavy equipment prowls the narrow streets of the village, whether at the corner of Washington Avenue and Rt. 17, along Seven Lakes Drive or on the hilly streets of Pine Grove Lakes. Continue Reading

The Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood in Sloatsburg is encountering some heavy construction on very narrow roads. With an Orange and Rockland crew channeling up Torne and Council Crest to Hillside Road to replace an old gas line, residents are getting a taste of the construction zone most other Sloatsburg residents experienced during recent sewer work throughout the village. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Fire Department recently expanded into a second station, taking over the building on village property at Village Hall that formally housed Curves. Originally built for Sloatsburg’s sanitation trucks, before the village contracted garbage collection services out to the Rockland County Solid Waste Authority, the building has now come full circle as newly operational Station 2. Continue Reading

Eight days after a powerful snow storm hit Sloatsburg, knocking out power to hundreds of residents, cleanup crews from the Village of Sloatsburg Public Works were busily clearing downed tree limbs and branches, especially focusing on the Pine Grove Lakes neighborhood. Orange and Rockland reported restored power to more than 128,698, or 96%, of the estimated 134,000 customers who lost some form of power from the late October storm. Continue Reading

Workmen from the New York Department of Transportation finished work on the new bridge that crosses the Ramapo River along Seven Lakes Drive in Sloatsburg. The old bridge, along with much of the road, was washed out during the high waters  of Hurricane Irene at the end of August, 2011.

Seven Lakes Drive and the new bridge opened ahead of schedule, Wednesday, October 26, relieving traffic congestion throughout the Sloatsburg area.