By Kathy Kahn What little is left of the original bucolic Town of Ramapo and its tattered school district, East Ramapo, is a scenario that may be the same fate of a municipality in neighboring Orange County. In 1977, the Town of Monroe permitted an all-Satmar Hasidic Village to be created within the town’s borders, […]
BY KATHY KAHN Two Kiryas Joel residents pled guilty to misdemeanor tax fraud in the Orange County Town of Monroe in mid-December for failing to pay over $780,000 in sales tax the men collected but pocketed instead of paying. Concrete on Demand and Copour have offices in the Village of Kiryas Joel, while the […]
Orange County Legislature votes to allow Kiryas Joel referendum to ‘secede’ from Monroe BY KATHY KAHN By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all-Satmar Hasidic town. Speaker after speaker filled the County’s Emergency Services Building on […]
United Monroe and Preserve Hudson Valley announced Wednesday an agreement with the Village of Kiryas Joel that all parties hope will ease political tensions. The deal provides a path to ending their conflicts of nearly four years over Kiryas Joel’s two land annexation attempts and supports Kiryas Joel’s initiative to politically separate from the Town […]