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Ramapo Mountains
Police & Fire
Officers Resuscitate Rockland 17-Year-Old At Ramapo Reservation
A drowning teen from Rockland was resuscitated after his friends pulled him from a lake in the Ramapo mountains, authorities said. The 17-year-old Spring Valley boy was surrounded by his friends in Bergen County when a group of Mahwah police officers -- identified as Nicholas Williams, Ryan Moore, Connor Gilgen, Luke Rice, and Liam Kantanas -- reached the upper lake at the Ramapo Reservation around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said. He was unresponsive from all the water he’d ingested but had a pulse, Bussinelli said. The boy apparently had jumped into the lake, bega…
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130 Acres Of Open Space Added To State Park In Hudson Valley
State officials have announced the addition of 130 acres of open space to Sterling Forest State Park in the Hudson Valley. The park is located in the Ramapo Mountains in Orange County. The new property was part of the former Greenwood Forest Farms, an early 1900s resort considered to be the first resort community for Black New Yorkers, officials said. Officials said the property was purchased with $364,000 from the Environmental Protection Fund. "New York remains committed to protecting valued open spaces for wildlife and New Yorkers alike," Hochul said in a statement. "Throughout t…
Real Estate
Mahwah House Listed At $1.5M Is Private Getaway Right Here
A Mahwah house with breathtaking views of the Ramapo Mountains is listed at $1.579 million. The mountain top retreat sits on more than 2.8 acres on the quiet and private cul-de-sac Weathervane Court. Stone and mill-work are featured outside with the indoor grand foyer opening to the dining and great rooms (with fireplace). The house also features a custom kitchen with gourmet appliances, a two-story breakfast room, dark hardwood floors and floor-to-ceiling windows. There are five bedrooms and six bathrooms. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE LISTING.
Police & Fire
Mahwah Firefighters Move Indian Camp Propane Tanks To Protect Ramapo River
MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah firefighters secured several propane tanks Saturday amid concerns that they'd float into the Ramapo River, which supplies water for millions of people in New Jersey and New York. Firefighters moved the tanks after being called to the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp, west of Route 202 in the Ramapo Mountains, where the recent rain and melted snow raised fears of serious flooding. The area is the first along the Ramapo River in Mahwah that floods -- and, some fear, could someday be washed out completely. The Ramapough Lenape Nation camp, on what is considered a sacre…