Women’s Clubs’ members who support Protect the Palisades (www.protectthepalisades.org) will gather to recommit to protecting the Palisades and urge redesign of the proposed LG high-rise headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. When: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 12 noon Where: 422 Route 9W, Alpine, NJ (click on map at right for larger view) What: Mother’s Day Weekend –
Jane Daniels of Mohegan Lake, a leader for the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference in the Yorktown Community Trails Project, has been honored as State Trail Worker of the Year in New York by American Trails, the national organization for advocacy and support of trails…
The New York New Jersey Trail Conference is now officially set to start restoring and renovating the interior of the Darlington Schoolhouse, a historic building at the end of Darlington Avenue, originally built in the 1800’s. The volunteer environmental group, which maintains nature trails throughout Bergen County and the Hudson Valley, N.Y., maps those trails for area
MAHWAH – The efforts to resurrect an abandoned 1890s schoolhouse are entering their final phase – more than six years after the historic building was jointly purchased by the township and the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference.
Mahwah Council has endorsed a new site plan that will provide a sidewalk in front of the Darlington Schoolhouse on Ramapo Valley Road. Article found on page 4 of Villadom Times Weekly Newspaper online.
Leaders representing the organizations and institutions collaborating to raise the funds for the adaptive re-use of the Darlington Schoolhouse gathered at the site to announce the completion of the exterior restoration and the commencement of efforts funding the interior renovation. “Today we are unveiling our plans for converting the historic landmark to become the permanent
State, county and local officials gathered with members of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Wednesday afternoon to officially usher in the second phase of its restoration and renovation of the Darlington Schoolhouse.
Trail Conference Opens Accessible Appalachian Trail Section on Bear Mountain Summit
Trail: Appalachian Trail
200 people gathered at the summit of Bear Mountain on June 4th, 2011 – National Trails Day – to celebrate the opening of a new 1.3-mile Appalachian Trail loop that includes a 0.4-mile section of trail designed to be enjoyed by all trail users. The new trail section extends from the parking area near Perkins Tower to a
The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference took another step toward its goal of reviving the 120-year-old Darlington School House as its new headquarters. Alice Luddington-Cantor, a conference volunteer and township resident, said she helps manage the grants awarded toward work on the school house. “I really got involved with it because the school house is
The historic Darlington Schoolhouse in Mahwah will not be turned into a parking lot, razed for luxury condominiums or transformed into a multilevel mall. By the end of 2012, if all goes according to plan, the building will continue its original purpose as a center for education, this time of the outdoor variety.
The NY-NJ Trail Conference announced that environmental sculptor George Trakas will be the landscape designer at its new headquarters.
