By: Jennifer Korn With the ERCSD (East Ramapo Central School District) board elections underway, the NYWFP (New York Working Families Party) has announced its endorsement of five community activists and public school parents. “It’s high time East Ramapo students have community-rooted champions like these five women on the school board,” said NYWFP State Director Sochie […]
Tuwanna Anderson understands the horrors of gun violence. On Feb 14, 2010, Tuwanna, who became a mother at the age of 14, lost her firstborn son, Malik James, in a tragic shooting that redefined her existence. Wrought with pain and devastated by her loss, she grappled, with depression and struggled to find meaning in her […]
On Wednesday, Jan 20, New York State police arrested three Spring Valley teenagers for illegal possession of a firearm. Teyyvon Epps, Regine Durandisse, and Jimmy Palma, were at a residence in Ramapo when they were taken into police custody. All three suspects are 19 years old and reside in the village of Spring Valley. […]
By Kathy Kahn Ramapo residents’ pleas to halt zoning and building code changes to the northeastern quadrant of the town fell on deaf ears last Wednesday, Jan 20, during a hastily arranged Zoom meeting. After all was said and done, the Town Board unanimously voted to continue a process it began in 2018 that […]
By: Jennifer Korn After winning a three-year legal battle centered on the East Ramapo school district’s favoritism of private schools, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is facing another predicament. The district board disagrees that they owe NAACP $4.3 million in legal fees and has threatened to dismiss teachers and other […]
The Piermont Historical Society has posed a simple question to their community: what was it like to live in the village during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020? In order to record the experiences of the villagers and capture the spirit of these extraordinary events, the society is asking that residents fill out a […]