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The Rockland Arts Festival Calls For Artists Deadline December 1st 2024

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3 months ago

October 31, 2024

Rockland Report Admin

A unique opportunity to experience outstanding local arts
The Rockland Arts Festival has been built on the core values of community, inclusivity, and acceptance. These values are very important to the festival team and have been considered across all areas of the event. We are committed to providing safe and welcoming spaces and events where everyone can happily connect through the arts. We believe it is the shared responsibility of organizers, volunteers, artists, sponsors and patrons to help create an enriching and inclusive festival.

– The Rockland Arts Festival has a ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards incidents of intimidation, violence and physical or verbal harassment, related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, age or religion.

– The Rockland Arts Festival supports cultural change within the arts by promoting an ethic of care among artists and patrons, encouraging conversations and providing gender-equality and diversity within the festival program.

– The festival organizers strive to improve the festival experience by reaching out to diverse artistic groups and individuals, and we encourage people with disability or access needs to get in touch with our team prior to the festival so that they may participate or if we can assist when possible.

– The Rockland Arts Festival recognizes that we would not be able to enjoy the wealth of artistic talents without the creations of diverse communities and cultures. Along with our engagement with local artists, we aim to encourage people from all backgrounds to come together to share the festival’s free experiences.

APPLICATION: https://tinyurl.com/raf2025

ROCKLAND ARTS FESTIVAL will run from January 31 – February 9, 2025.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists (all mediums) age 18 and over and arts organizations in the United States.

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Missing Teenager From Haverstraw Has Been Safely Located And Back Home

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1 day ago

January 27, 2025

Rockland Report Admin

UPDATE: Missing Teenager from Haverstraw Has Been Safely Located and Back Home

Franyer Cruz Dominguez left his school in Orangetown and took a cab to 197th Street and University Avenue in the Bronx, and his family didn’t hear from him. Community advocates Zahira Rodriguez, Ramon Soto, and Carmen Tavarez immediately went into action, created flyers, spread the word to thousands of people, and got the media to cover the story about Franyer going missing.

Franyer’s family confirmed to News 12 Sunday that the teen was found alive on a Manhattan train and they were in the hospital with him.

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Did You Know Rockland Had An Ice Bridge Connecting Nyack To Tarrytown

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1 day ago

January 27, 2025

Rockland Report Admin

1866 the Rockland County Journal published an article that captured the imaginations of Tarrytown and Nyack residents. They announced the “construction” of a bridge across the Tappan Zee in just 48 hours. The bridge would be so strong it could support people, sleighs, cattle and cars.

This was not an ordinary bridge, it was nature’s handiwork. An ICE bridge that spanned the 3 mile wide Tappan Zee during the winter. Sometimes it appeared every winter while other times there were decade long gaps in it’s arrival.

When the ice bridge did emerged, it became transportation and a playground for people of all ages. There were walkers, skaters, cyclists, cars, horses, and even motorcycles on its meticulously marked route across the nearly three-mile-wide Tappan Zee.

A skater smoking a pipe gives a businessman a lift across the river. Photo is likely at Stony Point, a much narrower crossing then Nyack to Tarrytown.