Posted on 13 April 2014 by Editor
by Bill Sweet
Instead of receiving a refund, about 10% of my clients end up owing the IRS an income tax payment on April 15th. It’s usually unpleasant because it’s a surprise a little less than half of the time. Poop happens.
When it is unexpected, the hopeful question that I’m always asked is this: “Should I file an extension?” Continue Reading
Posted on 08 April 2014 by Editor
With a crowded Tuesday evening for meetings that includes the Sloatsburg Board and Town of Ramapo Planning and Zoning Board meeting, it appears the Ramapo Central School District is poised to approve an agreement between the district and Woodmont Hills at Ramapo. What that particular agreement might be will be discussed as an action item at Tuesday’s Cherry Lane Elementary School meeting that takes place at 7:30 p.m. Continue Reading
Posted on 03 April 2014 by Editor
Small voices raised in unison apparently rang loud and clear, saying essentially thanks but no thanks to the controversial inBloom student data collection project. Community concerns reached the ears of NY legislators and, as first reported Monday afternoon by NY State Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, inBloom has been blocked by New York State lawmakers. Continue Reading
Posted on 28 March 2014 by Editor
Finally, confirmation. While no Sloatsburg official made any official statement, or could even confirm that Rockland County Executive Ed Day was, indeed, meeting with the Town of Tuxedo, local gadfly and activist John Kwasnicki was able to shine some sunshine on the issue.
General map for the proposed Tuxedo Reserve 1,195 unit development / TPFYI.com
It was Kwasnicki who repeatedly peppered the Sloatsburg board of trustees over the years on how the village was spending the nearly one million dollars Tuxedo Reserve has paid the municipality for community improvements. Spent in general funds, came the answer. Continue Reading
Posted on 24 March 2014 by Editor
Hundreds of brothers and sisters have come from all over the world on a sort of religious pilgrimage, joining together on a grand adventure to construct a new mother church headquarters in the woody surrounds of Orange County, NY. On Monday evening, the Watchtower organization will make its big reveal at the Tuxedo Town Hall related to the global scope of the Jehovah’s Witnesses grand facility on Long Meadow Road in Tuxedo and planned headquarters in Warwick. Continue Reading
Posted on 21 March 2014 by Editor
As support for an education tax credit bill grows in Albany, there is push back against the bill on the local level. The Ramapo Teachers Association has sent out word to rally Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. outside NY State Senator David Carlucci’s Nanuet offices. Continue Reading
Posted on 19 March 2014 by Editor
The Town of Ramapo apparently used a build first approach during construction of the Boulders ballpark in Pomona, NY. The town was charged by U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara with repeatedly filling in wetlands surrounding Provident Bank Park in violation of the Clean Water Act. Continue Reading
Posted on 18 March 2014 by Editor
Spring officially arrives on Thursday, March 20, perhaps heralded by the passing of the giant asteroid Erigone, which is due to cross in front of the bright star Regulus at 2 a.m. Thursday morning.
The Amaranthus Ensemble performs Sunday, March 23, at St. Mary’s in Tuxedo.
A certain celebration of spring will take place this Sunday at St. Mary’s-in-Tuxedo Episcopal Church when the Amaranthus Ensemble performs works by Beethoven, Kreisler, Kargul, Glazounoff, Fuchs, Mozart and Handel. Continue Reading
Posted on 11 March 2014 by Editor
This week, the week before spring kicks down winter’s door, has several important public meetings on the calendar.
Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence is making a big push for Ramapo, and other interested municipalities in Rockland County, to take over water management from United Water, with a Public Meeting on a proposed Rockland Water Authority slated for Ramapo Town Hall on Thursday, March 13, at 8 p.m. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 March 2014 by Editor
Rockland County Co-composting Facility in Hillburn, NY.
The recent clear weather and attendant snow melt revealed an interesting issue at the Rockland County Co-composting Facility in Hillburn, NY. Two large sections of the facility’s roof apparently buckled and collapsed during February’s heavy snows. Continue Reading
