Sloatsburg Mayor Carl Wright was careful to be as accurate as possible — Memorial Day celebrations have been going on in Sloatsburg in some shape or form since World War I. He wasn’t certain exactly when they started. But whether it was the community gathering at the old Fire Hall or later at the American Legion Hall, or now at the Sloatsburg Community Fields, the village has always honored its veterans. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Municipal is filling up with water this week, in time for Memorial Day and a bit of sunshine and higher temperatures. Pool gates officially open Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 26 through Monday, May 28 from 12 noon until 8 p.m. The pool will be then continue to be open weekends throughout June, when the regular season begins, Saturday, June 23. The Municipal Pool season runs through Sunday, September 23. Continue Reading

A contingent of concerned neighbors seeing red filled the seats at Village Hall during the last Sloatsburg Village Board meeting, held Tuesday, May 8. Petition in hand, the residents of Academy Avenue and Ballard Avenue listed a series of incidents on Academy Avenue, including one where a speeding car ended up on someone’s front lawn. Continue Reading

Update 2 PM: The Sloatsburg Zoning Board of Appeals meets Thursday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. The public hearing part of the meeting pertaining to the Martin Lichtman use variance request will be part of the ZBA agenda.

It’s been reported that the applicant for the food processing plant use variance has cancelled an appearance before the ZBA. But the public hearing part of the ZBA agenda will be held, with the possibility that the ZBA will adjourn the public portion of the meeting. Continue Reading

As part of Ramapo History Week, Friends of Harmony Hall and the Sloatsburg Historical Society host the first of a weeklong series of events at the old Jacob Sloat mansion this evening. Monday night’s event features a panel discussion with Diane Jabis from Rockland County BOCES, Environmental Educator at Cornell Co-operative Extension of Rockland County Chuck Stead, Harmony Hall Curator Geoff Welch, and Village of Sloatsburg Historian Harrison Bush. Continue Reading

After many months of workshops and candid conversations, meetings and number crunching, Tuesday’s the time to vote on the 2012-2013 Ramapo Central School budget.

Local recanteur and Harmony Hall Curator Geoff Welch returns to the South Salon at the old Jacob Sloats House Friday, May 11, to shed new light on the works of American master painter John Singer Sargent. Renowned as one of the most brilliant portrait painters of his time, his images of water are too often overlooked. History shows that Sargent could hold a brush with most any painter, past or present.

Welch will revisit Sargent’s water images by taking a whirlwind tour around the world, focusing on these more intimate Sargent travel paintings and covering some 100 slides. Continue Reading

Most days Hayward’s Deli & Market bustles early with customers stopping in for an on-the-run bagel and spot of coffee or bit of morning news. And then there’s the big lunch sandwiches for the hungry noon crowd, where the Hayward motto “meats to please you” hits home.

Something arty is brewing down at the Tuxedo Train Station this weekend when the town holds its First Annual Steeped in the Arts show Saturday, May 12, from 12 -4 p.m.

“It’s an opportunity for local artists to display their work,” said Shari Brooks, director of recreation for Tuxedo. ” We have photography, paintings, sketches. We have some metal art and one or two quilts.”

Brooks said the show was put together partly in response to community feedback on another program the recreation department was planning — a children’s art show with tea for adults. Brooks said the overwhelming feedback by local artists convinced the department to create the Steeped in the Arts show instead. The show will display artwork from local artists throughout Tuxedo.

“The tea is something we’re serving,” Brooks said.

Artists will show up to three pieces per artist with much of the work displayed on portable panels. The event is free and some of the work may be available for sale.

For more information on Steeped in the Arts, please call the Tuxedo Recreation office at 351-2265.

Source: Image courtesy of Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce.

Tucked away at the very end of Torne Valley Road, there’s a lot more than recycling going on at the low-slung Rockland County Solid Waste Mangement Authority buildings. Surrounded by geometrical shaped bio-solids composting near the hilltop plant, the center is the site where all county paper and plastic comes to be separated and processed in huge hanger-like warehouses. But those activities are only part of the authority’s activities. This Sunday, May 6, come rain or shine, the RCSWA team welcomes area residents to discover more about their efforts during the 3rd Annual Environmental Day: Living Green in Rockland Continue Reading