It’s that time of year when many students start to get anxious about next year’s school schedule. After the Presidents’ Day weekend break, students will begin meeting with their guidance counselors to map out schedules. With their futures in minde, 20 eighth-grade girls and their moms turned out recently for the District’s fifth-annual Women in Engineering Mother-Daughter Breakfast to get a taste of a possible future. Continue Reading

After the snows and wind of Nemo passed through Saturday, George Grant Mason school in Tuxedo sprang to life Sunday afternoon for some good old-fashioned car racing. The scouts of Cub Scout Pack 2146 revved up the wood block engines their hand made cars and put on a serious competition. Continue Reading

Thursday morning, Sloatsburg Mayor Carl Wright and company took a countywide conference call from Orange & Rockland for a briefing on possible rapid response storm actions. By Friday afternoon, Wright reported that everything was already mostly in place for Nemo. “We’re prepared before the storm even comes,” Wright said, looking out his office window as big flakes of snow floated past — the first wave arriving of whatever was to come. Continue Reading

Sometimes it’s all about balancing out the bitter with the sweet. The Ramapo Central Board of Education met this week and did just that with a brainstorming budget workshop followed by a more light-hearted student awards presentation. Continue Reading

Bryan Anderson is the living, breathing bones and flesh of courage. He’s also every parent’s harrowing projection of the nightmares that lie in wait, loose in the world and ready to descend at a moment’s notice. Continue Reading

Groundhog day is upon us and so are the fundraising filings of those candidates running for Rockland County Executive. After nearly 20 years in office current Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef is calling it quits. And in his wake, the scramble for Rockland County dollars, sense and votes is on. Continue Reading

Sloatsburg may not be getting a signature project soon but it may get more gear for the Sloatsburg Volunteer Fire Department. And good gear helps save lives.

At the Village Board meeting last Tuesday, SFD Second Assistant Chief Chris Morse made an appearance with a small contingent of firefighters to present the board with  an itemized list of gear and equipment upgrades the department needs to bring the department into compliance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standards and to meet various other state and agency requirements. Morse also spoke at the board’s January 8 meeting. Continue Reading

The East Ramapo School District finds itself sinking deeper into discord and community angst. Journal News reporter Khurram Saeed interviewed the two East Ramapo School Board members who resigned abruptly this past week — Stephen Price, a 20 year board member, and Suzanne Young-Mercer, elected in 2010, both submitted their resignation letters to East Ramapo District Clerk Cathy Russell on Monday. Continue Reading

Eric Albert has been been quietly building a comedy home base in Sloatsburg, and Friday night will be the one year coming out celebration for Characters Comedy Night.

On the last Friday of the month for the last year, Albert has turned the upstairs room at the restaurant into a laugh factory, attended by an enthusiastic hometown crowd and people who come in for the shows from the surrounding area. Continue Reading

They don’t call politics a contact sport for nothing. Dylan Skriloff over at the Rockland County Times takes no prisoners when reporting a story. Skriloff’s journalistic stock is rising as a source of breaking news and inside information. The young editor and associate publisher of the Rockland Times has just landed a new radio gig as host of the Thursday edition of WRCR 1300 AM’s show — the Raymour & Flanigan Community News Hour. Continue Reading