Black Rock Forest Consortium – The Cornwall Local

New Black Rock trail named for Sibyl Golden

June 13, 2019 Jason Kaplan

On June 6, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the opening of the Black Rock Forest Visitor Access Pathway, to be commonly referred to as Sibyl’s Path.

Black Rock group goes behind the scenes

November 3, 2017 Editorial Staff

It’s Friday the 13th, just a few weeks before Halloween. You’re planning the first outing for a new group that includes kids and their parents. Where would you take them — a horror movie, a haunted house?

Schools host a new type of science fair

March 18, 2016 Editorial Staff

It was different from any science fair we had ever covered.

Black Rock gets grant for path

December 14, 2015 Ken Cashman

Black Rock Forest Consortium will receive a $216,924 matching grant from New York State for a Visitor Access Pathway.

Kamlet to teach orienteering at Black Rock

October 2, 2015 Jason Kaplan

Orienteering is a sport that entails using navigational skills, a map, and compass to navigate from one point to another in unfamiliar terrain. Often in the form of a race, the goal is to find controls marked on a map.

Shopping, grants, BFF and news bites

December 19, 2014 Editorial Staff

Mrs. O’Dell, the Town’s historian and receiver of taxes, won the grand prize in the Nov. 29 Shop Hop.

Third-graders to aid scientific study

October 3, 2014 Ken Cashman

Tuesday was a big day for Mrs. Kelly Hogan’s third-graders at Willow Avenue School. For some of them, it was their first visit to Black Rock Forest. For all of them, it was the start of a year long research project.