BY GEORGE J. DACRE The First Annual BoulderDash 5k Run has been scheduled at Provident Bank Ballbark by the Rockland Boulders Sunday morning June 23 as part of a Health Fair sponsored by Active International and supporting sponsor Stop and Shop. Proceeds of the event will benefit the Active International Cardiovascular Unit at Good Samaritan […]
Anne M. Byrne of Nanuet was elected president-elect of the National School Boards Association during NSBA’s annual conference in April in San Diego. The National School Boards Association represents state school boards association members and more than 90,000 local school board members, who lead 13,809 local school districts serving the nation’s 50 million public school […]
East Ramapo School Board President Resigns from East Ramapo School Board East Ramapo School Board President Daniel Scwartz announced that he would be resigning on Monday, making him the most recent in a string of departures by officials from the divided school district. Schwartz explained he left because “Personal and business obligations” prevented him from […]
BY MICHAEL RICONDA The Stony Point Town Board took time on April 23 to honor fire crews with the Wayne Hose Fire Department for their response to Hurricane Sandy, which hit Stony Point exceptionally harder than the majority of Rockland’s towns. Fire chiefs Joseph Robinson, Kevin Huslinger and Curtis Wicks appeared to receive service pins […]
Come to the talk on Saturday, April 27 and/or the walk on Sunday, April 28 Pomona, NY – This weekend explore the mysteries of Doodletown, once a small hamlet in northern Rockland, now a ghost town. Doodletown was a small, isolated community for about 200 years, until the mid-1960s, and would have been part of the […]
The Ramapo Catskill Library System (RCLS) is pleased to endorse celebrations taking place in observance of the 92nd Annual National Children’s Book Week, May 13-19, 2013. This observance encourages young people to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experiences through books. Local libraries in our area are dedicated to spreading the word […]