Here’s good news for local job hunters. Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence held a press conference recently at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Suffern to unveil a bit of high-tech job search wizardry. The town has a new job search website called Ramapo Tweet My Jobs that allows residents to push/pull job information directly from potential employers.

The town signed an 18-month, $50,000 contract a California company to run the digital jobs board, which hosts similar site for Atlanta and Newark. Ramapo will be the first small locale to use the technology, which allows Town of Ramapo residents to sign up for town-specific job searches seeking work through email, smartphone and other social media applications. Employers post jobs for free.

To use the Town of Ramapo Jobs Connector, go to the site, sign in by creating an account and begin searching. There are some 384 Twitter channels to parse through such as Veteran jobs in Ramapo, Internship jobs in Ramapo and Security jobs in Ramapo.

On another front, the Town of Ramapo will hosts Living Green in Rockland, which celebrates the 2012 Environmental Day, Sunday, May 6th, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority.

The event is an opportunity to check out the compost bins and barrels that will be on sale. There will also be  an organic plant sale, tours of the native plants garden. Family activities include face painting for kids, radio controlled airplane demonstrations, balloon artists, food, music, and more. It’s a chance to get out in the sun for some fun. Further information, call 845-753-2200.

Source: Mareesa Nicosia, LoHud for information related to the new Ramapo Tweet My Jobs site.

The Sloatsburg Fire Department played host to the Rockland County Fire Chiefs’ Association’s Old-Timers Night dinner the last day of March. Leading up to the event, members of the fire department were busy readying the Fire Hall, cooking and cleaning, setting up tables and decorations in preparation for the the Chiefs’ Association’s 60th anniversary celebration. It was the first time Sloatsburg hosted the important event. But there was also another first. Outgoing RCFCA president was Anthony Massaro, a former fire chief from Sloatsburg. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Public Works Department is coming to a street near you this week as it continues its spring cleaning around the village. For those residents who have called in to the village offices concerning curbside cleaning, the Public Works truck is sweeping the village this week. It usually takes a few days to a week for the slow-moving truck to sweep through the entire village, cleaning out drainage culverts. For more information, call the village office at 753-2727. Continue Reading

The 17th Annual Ramapo River Watershed Conference will be held Friday, April 27, 2012 at Ramapo College of New Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, New Jersey. Organized by Geoff Welch, a Town of Ramapo Watershed Keeper, the conference explores issues related to what is happening in the area’s watershed. This year’s presentations focus on issues related to storm drainage, development and wetland contamination. Following is a schedule of the day’s proceedings. Continue Reading

The sturdy tan brick building at 100 Sterling Mine Road stands empty, or may be empty, depending on the accuracy of the building’s roadside signage. Built in 1970, the two-story office, with warehouse dock and bays in back, is the source of some controversy in Sloatsburg. Continue Reading

Ken Linsner lives surrounded by Tibetan thangka and Samurai swords, Japanese paintings, and plenty of books — several libraries’ worth. It’s the life of the mind as lived in the world of art and every conceivable art object possible, from an older aunt’s long-held paintings to that silverware collection passed down through the generations to a rare Tibetan kapala — sacred sculpted skull. Continue Reading

The sinking of “the jewel of the White Star Line” in the early morning hours of April 14 and 15 in 1912 — as the one-of-a-kind British luxury passenger liner RMS Titanic was known — was one of those singular events that still grips the public imagination. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great ship’s demise, which was billed as an “unsinkable” ship but clipped an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank. Continue Reading

Nestled behind the Municipal Pool down in the Flats off Brook Street, sits Brook Street Park, a sleepy Sloatsburg treasure. Nakoma Brook runs quietly down from the hills and watershed above Sloatsburg, running by the pool, providing the playground its own ample elbow space and quiet. Continue Reading

The Sloatsburg Village Board met for the last time in March last week and provided several easter eggs of information buried in its agenda.

Upcoming community events include the Easter Egg Hunt for Village of Sloatsburg Children at St. Mary’s Villa this coming Saturday, April 7 at 1 p.m. The egg hunt is open to Sloatsburg kids from pre-school up through 5th grade. Continue Reading

Douglas Adams has finally settled into the Ramapo School District, recently moving to a house in Montebello with his wife, Lisa, who is originally from Hillburn. A year ago this May, the Ramapo Central School Board hired Adams away from a smaller school district outside Little Rock, Arkansas to lead the Ramapo Central school system. But for Adams and family, it’s a sort of a homecoming. Continue Reading