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Hundreds attend Chestnut Ridge Zoning Meeting

June 29, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Screenshot of the crowd from the Channel 12 coverageThe meeting was scheduled for 7:30 at the Chestnut Ridge Middle School, but shortly after 7, the parking lots were filled, and the neighboring side streets were also filling up. An estimate of the standing-room crowd exceeded 400. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chestnut Ridge

Meeting tonight Thursday June 28

June 28, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Sign for June 28 Meeting

Filed Under: Chestnut Ridge

East Ramapo Election Results

June 21, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

From The Journal News:
“East Ramapo was one of 16 budgets across the state that were defeated, according to the New York State School Boards Association. Within the Lower Hudson Valley, the only other proposals that failed were in New Rochelle and Brewster.

About six percent of registered voters came out in Clarkstown and North Rockland. South Orangetown saw about nine percent of its registered voters and Suffern Central had a turnout rate of about 14 percent. In East Ramapo, the participation rate was 16 percent. All numbers were lower than 2017.

Statewide, fewer people voted Tuesday, a trend the state school board association has been tracking over the last few years. Since 2012, when New York implemented a tax-levy cap on school budgets, fewer people are hitting the polls each spring.”

The following table from The Power of Ten demonstrates how the bloc vote once again defeated the budget. The data linked to polling sites show how Proposition #1 (the budget) fared:

Power of Ten Election Results by Polling Place

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District

Budget Revote in East Ramapo, Tuesday June 19

June 18, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

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Please support the approval of the East Ramapo School Budget. To find your correct polling place, check here.

Filed Under: East Ramapo Central School District

Rockland Lawsuit alleges Ramapo sidestepped rules to downzone property at Bluefield Extension

June 15, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Rockland County Times bannerPublished in the Rockland County Times
BY JOEL GROSSBARTH

While former Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence continues to languish in a federal prison only three months into his 2 ½-year sentence, the effects of his administration’s policies in connection with land use applications continue to haunt the residents of Ramapo. Now, the County of Rockland has had enough and has sued the town in Rockland County Supreme Court.

According to papers filed with the Supreme Court, the county is asking a Supreme Court judge to declare invalid and unlawful an approval of a property known as the Bluefield Extension project located on 126 – 130 Union Road opposite Bluefield Drive in the unincorporated section of Ramapo. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Overdevelopment, Rockland County

The Bernard Charles Vocational Carousel Continues to Spin

June 15, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Bernard Charles LoHud File Photo

You’ve probably heard of a Teflon Don to whom no charges, no matter who brings them, can stick. Well, Bernard Charles might be Ramapo’s first Teflon Employee, to whom no job will stick, at least not for long, before he needs another one created for him. And they just keep creating jobs for him despite Civil Service exam challenges or questionable time cards. Why would Supervisors St. Lawrence and Michael Specht and School Board officials keep doing this? I’ll leave that to your imagination or your own review of his past voting record in various board seats that he has kept warm for others. Here’s the Journal News’ latest cross-out and reassignment for Mr. Charles. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bernard Charles

Airmont moves closer to zoning code update, lifting building moratorium

June 15, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

June 12, 2018 “Village officials are nearly ready to pull the trigger on approving an updated zoning code and lifting a thrice-extended building moratorium that some Hasidic Jewish residents find restrictive to their plans to expand their homes.

The final step in the process that began in October 2016 starts Tuesday night with a public hearing on the proposed zoning code changes before a subcommittee of the Comprehensive Master Plan Review Committee. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Airmont

Important vote at Rockland Legislature Multi-services Meeting Tues. June 12

June 10, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

On June 12th at 6:00, a discussion and vote will take place in order to support a resolution Naftuli Moster, along with Legislators Carey and Hofstein sponsored. This resolution calls for the county to support Assemblyman Zebrowski’s bill A1305, which looks to strengthen the Education Department’s ability to enforce standards in the education received at non-public schools. If it passes this committee, it will head to the full legislature. It has received bipartisan support the last time it was discussed.

Filed Under: Ken Zebrowski, Rockland Legislature

CUPON Chestnut Ridge meeting Sunday, June 10, 2-4pm

June 9, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

The Chestnut Ridge  monthly meeting will be this Sunday at Finkelstein Memorial Library from 2 to 4 p.m.
A major topic will be the June 28th board meeting which will address the proposed house of worship law, a law which could possibly impact 90% of our village

Filed Under: CUPON, Uncategorized

Steve White’s Commentary on Orthodoxy series in LoHud

June 8, 2018 by Michael Castelluccio

Steve White

The following was published by The Journal News as Commentary regarding “5 Jewish women talk about what it means to be Orthodox in Rockland,” a series of articles:

“What does it mean to be an Orthodox Jewish woman in Rockland? This is the question asked by the headline in the Journal News/lohud in a series of articles by reporter Rochel Leah Goldblatt.

The author presents Orthodox Rockland as a kind of Jewish Lake Wobegon, where all the women are modest, all the men are God-fearing, and the number of children is above average.

Is this objective reporting? Have we answered the question in the headline? Have we done justice to the lives lived by women who identify as Orthodox Jewish, or understood their complicated relationships with others in Rockland County? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Steve White

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