On Friday, May 25, the Green Meadow community celebrated the completion of the new Arts Building and dedicated the performance space to community use Chestnut Ridge. Earlier this year, Green Meadow opened the extensively renovated Arts Building on its campus. The construction of Rose Hall was at the heart of the changes, and the theater […]
BY CAROLYN JOHNSON Kathy Piedl, buyer at Hungry Hollow Co-op, a community-owned natural foods market in Chestnut Ridge, was delighted that Mother Nature cooperated with their Earth Day Celebration last week. “We had a beautiful day weather-wise–couldn’t have asked for better.” When asked about event highlights, Kathy smiled, “The children’s worm-habitat-building activity was a big […]
BY CAROLYN JOHNSON All over Rockland County, tulips are in full bloom. One majestic view of these quintessential spring flowers in red and gold is at the park at Chestnut Ridge, on the corner of Chestnut Ridge Road (45) and Red Schoolhouse Road. Mayor Jerome Kobre exercised outstanding leadership when he turned a vacant gas […]
Children in the East Ramapo and Ramapo Central School Districts are getting cleaner running bus fleets through a grant program awarded to Chestnut Ridge Transportation from the EPA. The transportation company, a member of The Trans Group, LLC (Spring Valley, NY), has been awarded the grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to replace and/or upgrade […]