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2019 – 6th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Suffern
SPRING NEWS: The Wild & Scenic Film Festival is back at the Majestic Lafayette Theatre May 20th Suffern, NY – April 22, 2019 – ROSA4Rockland Inc. (“ROSA”)– an environmental 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization announces announces that the Wild & Scenic Film Festival will be back for the 6th year in a row at the historic Suffern Lafayette…
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ROSA Clears the Slate, Readies for Return to Drawing Board
(The following press release led to this Journal Article Article.) Rockland County Supreme Court, Hon. Thomas E. Walsh II decides in favor of Petitioners/Plaintiffs RAMAPO, NY, April 2, 2018: In another win for the rule of law and the environment, on March 30, 2018, Judge Thomas E. Walsh II, presiding in Rockland County Supreme Court, ruled…
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2018 – 5th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Suffern
SPRING NEWS: ROSA4Rockland Brings Back the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to the Majestic Suffern Lafayette Theatre to Celebrate Earth Day 2018 Suffern, NY – April 2, 2018 – ROSA4Rockland Inc. (“ROSA”)– an environmental 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization – is organizing the 5th Annual Earth Day Film Festival at the historic Suffern Lafayette Theater on Sunday April 22nd starting at 1:00pm…
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A Home Run for ROSA and Patrick Farm Advocates
This morning ROSA sent out the following press release. Links to the decisions are at the bottom. NYS Appellate Division, Second Department decides in favor of all the plaintiffs RAMAPO, NY, November 8, 2017: In a stunning win for the rule of law and the environment, the Appellate Division Second Department annulled the Town of Ramapo’s…
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October 15th – RocktobeROSAFest @ Kruckers
A special concert & dining event is announced on Sunday, Sept 23rd, 2012 featuring nationally known recording artist and longtime area resident Jon Pousette-Dart to benefit ROSA 4 Rockland to ensure that ROSA can sustain the legal battle to protect the community and the local water supply through the lengthy appeals process. (A ROSA information…
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Surprise, the Town Planner was actually trying to plan…
After all this time, we thought we had seen everything. Boy were we wrong! Little did we know that the Town Planner had actually been doing a great job detailing everything that was wrong with this project. Who would have thought that the town would hide these and other critical reviews from the public and,…
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Patrick Farm Court Decisions on 2015/2016 approvals
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, on June 30th, Judge Walsh handed down decisions allowing the latest Town Board and Planning Board decisions to stand. The 2015 Town Board decision was related to the Town Board’s refusal to require supplemental environmental review of the project as result of the applicant failing to disclose over 40% of the…
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2017 – 4th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Suffern
SPRING NEWS: ROSA4Rockland Brings Back the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Majestic Suffern Lafayette Theatre to Celebrate Earth Day 2017 Suffern, NY – April 12, 2017 – ROSA4Rockland Inc. (“ROSA”)– an environmental 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization – is organizing the 4th Annual Earth Day Film Festival at the historic Suffern Lafayette Theater on Thursday April 20th starting at…
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2016 Year-in-Review
Well its the close of yet another year… As we do each year, we try to recap the year and ask you to remember us when figuring out how you will carve out your end of year tax deductible donations. We hope that you will read on and whether the level of details is too much…
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New ULI Wetland Petition Sent to DEC
One of the most time consuming and costliest ROSA projects this year was work spent on coordinating and supporting a new municipal led petition to the NY State DEC to ask that the western wetland system on the Patrick Farm site be added to the NY State DEC Wetland Maps due their Unusual Local Importance (“ULI”). On…