The sentencing for Ann Milliaressis, the lunch lady who pleaded guilty in March to skimming thousands of dollars from Sloatsburg residents, will be postponed according to this report. Continue Reading

Take some down time Sunday afternoon, June 17, and visit Harmony Hall in Sloatsburg for some soulful Summer Solstice celebration. The Great Lawn at the old Jacob Sloat House will be the setting for some intriguing music that preludes the approaching summer solstice this coming Wednesday, which will be the longest day of the year. Continue Reading

Early Saturday morning — we’re talking early, as in when the birds begin chattering loudly in unison at first light — people will already be packing up their goods and heading to Tuxedo for market day. The Tuxedo Farmers’ Market celebrates its opening day of the season June 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a market day full of produce, song and other surprises. The market is the perfect place to pick up hand-made rolling pins and cutting boards to interesting herbs and cheese products or grass fed beef and tasty fresh tomatillos to mix up some weekend salsa. Continue Reading

News of the armed deli heist at Sterlington Station made its way through Sloatsburg yesterday faster than Twitter can break a story. When Sloatsburg Elementary School briefly locked down while police searched the surrounding neighborhood for the robbery suspect, news of the incident spread through social networks and the proverbial grapevine. Soon the village was abuzz about the crazy caper pulled off in broad daylight and certain to bring down the hard hand of the law.

It was later reported that 24 year old Sloatsburg resident Jeremy Olano was being held Monday night at Ramapo police headquarters, waiting arraignment in Sloatsburg Village Court for the reported holdup. He is being charged with second-degree robbery, a felony.

Hudson Valley News 12 swooped in for the story yesterday as it was breaking, with intrepid gumshoe reporter Ty Milburn reporting at the crime scene.

“Police were inside and outside of Sterlington Station in Sloatsburg on Monday afternoon after the deli and restaurant on Seven Lakes Drive was robbed at gunpoint,” Milburn exclaimed. “The suspect stormed into the deli wearing a mask and carrying what later turned out to be a fake gun, and then escaped by bicycle up Allen Lane.”

Ramapo police officers converged on Sterlington Station, joined by the Rockland County Sheriff Department, and just after 2 p.m. ordered a lockdown of Sloatsburg Elementary School. Officers then fanned out through the neighborhood in what turned out to be a brief manhunt for the suspect. Lohud reported that Ramapo Detective Sgt. Brian Corbett said that officers from three additional police departments were called in to assist with the search and that the school lockdown was a precaution because of its proximity to the reported armed robbery.

New York State Park Police and the Tuxedo Police Department joined the sheriff’s department and Ramapo police.

Olano was found at his apartment on Apple Street, a secluded narrow slice of road that runs parallel to Allen and just a brief village block from Sterlington. Witnesses described the robbery suspect as wearing a black hoodie and red striped pants. The deli robber reportedly pulled a gun that turned out to be fake, but New York law recognizes the use or threat of use of a weapon or simulated weapon in a crime as a felony. Olano is a Cablevision employee in Orange County. Cablevision is the parent company of News 12.

The amount jacked from Sterlington Station was reported as anywhere from $500 to as much as $3500.

Delores Manning, longtime former owner of the deli and restaurant when it was known as Miele’s, happened to be at Sterlington around the time of the heist.

“I’ve been sitting here for an hour and a half today, then I left and then it happened,” Manning said when interviewed by Milburn. “All those years we’ve been in here, we never had this problem, never.”

Source: Lohud and News 12.

The hard work and organization of the Sloatsburg Scholarship Fund and village officials paid dividends this past Monday when Sloatsburg made a strong showing at the Evening of Excellence awards dinner, held at the William L. Ransom auditorium at Suffern High School. Led by Mayor Carl Wright, Sloatsburg awarded five scholarships to Sloatsburg students during the evening’s ceremonies. Continue Reading

It’s been a very good year for Suffern High School. As the school year winds down, students are not only preparing for the Regents Exams but Prom — as well as participating in those final year-end projects. But this long school year has produced many notable successes, if not much winter weather. Continue Reading

Under a bright blue Thursday afternoon sky, BOCES students finished their last trip to the Saltbox House along Torne Valley Road in Hillburn, where they’ve been coming like clockwork all year to lend a helping hand. Continue Reading

Bill Sweet has been a busy man about Tuxedo. A financial planner just off the high winds of April’s tax season and one of the driving forces behind the recent rebranding of the Tuxedo Chamber of Commerce, Sweet is an energized and articulate advocate for the Tuxedo business community. Continue Reading

The sun came out early and so did Sloatsburg residents as friends and family gathered along Rt. 17 to enjoy the annual Memorial Day parade through the village Monday morning. Led by the Suffern High School Marching Band, the parade wound its way from Memorial Park at Village Hall through the village center and around Eagle Valley Road to the Sloatsburg Cemetery. Continue Reading

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