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www.thejournalnews.com From Page One The Journal News Monday, September 26, 2005 5A Ramapo buys home of Modern Art pioneers South Mountain Rd. PROPERTY, from 1A a Orchards 5 of Concklin i Davenport i 1 1 Preserve i Dogwood Ln- Mowbray-Clarke property pass on to another artist," he said. "It was really a center for artists from Manhattan." As part of an agreement to purchase the property from Sandra Nissen, the couple's granddaughter, the town will allow her and her family to stay in part of the house after it is restored and also have access to the property, Klein said. Klein said residents familiar with the property's history say the home was one of the 13 original homes built in the county. Mary Mowbray-Clarke, a landscape designer, planned and oversaw the construction of Dutch the Ramapo Parks Foundation.

The public was mystified by these modern paintings," the Wesley Hills woman said of the show that included Marcel Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)." "The show marked the beginning of Modern Art in America and New York City." This, she said, makes the property significant internationally as well as locally. St. Lawrence said the purchase along with the county's purchase of the final 47 acres of The Orchards of Concklin in 2002 Gardens in New City. She also ran a bookstore in Manhattan called The Sunwise Turn, which at one time employed Peggy Guggenheim, the famed art collector.

John Mowbray-Clarke and Arthur Davies grandfather of Niles Davies of Dr. Davies Farm in Congers toured Europe with a group of artists who relocated to South Mountain Road. From the region where the Modern Art movement was burgeoning, they brought back to America the first real exhibit of that style of art in the "1913 Armory Show," said Janet Burnet, executive director of now ensures that land from the town border to Route 45 would be preserved as open space. Martus Granirer, a deputy town attorney in Clarkstown and a president of the West Branch Conservation Association, lives down the street from the property. He said the property has been without a formal tenant for at least a decade and that in addition to its art history, the property serves as the origins of the Hackensack River.

"Open space is important when it's protected unfragmented," he said. "It's an important connection. It holds together an ecosys- John CornellThe Journal News tern and a historic district. It's a big deal." Reach Sulaiman Beg at sbegthejournalnews.com or 845-578-2484. WEDNESDAY is the big day! TUESDAY is preview day! Open early 9AM both days! 4 Vti.

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Conservationists last week said Mary Mowbray-Clarke and her husband, John, were integral to bringing the Modern Art movement to the United States in the early 1900s, as well as providing a home for writers and artists. "It's a great purchase for the town," Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence said. "It's a beautiful property." While a closing date has not been set, St. Lawrence said the town planned to pay for the property by using some of the $15.5 million in bonds the Town Board approved over the last few years for the acquisition of open space.

St. Lawrence said the town planned to preserve the area as open space to prevent development. A hiking trail that runs through the property, as well as a stream and a gorge, would benefit outdoor enthusiasts, he said. He said the town was looking into getting grants from the state and the state's office of historic preservation to restore an old home on the property. He said a wooden section of the home was built in the 1700s and the brick portion was built in the 1800s.

Once the house is restored, the town plans to use it as an artist-in-residence facility, said Town Attorney Michael Klein. "Artists will live there for some period of time, create, and then School officials get fiscal training FUNDING, from 1A that cover everything from building budgets to spotting fraud. The state put the requirement into place after several well-publicized cases of school theft and fraud involving districts on Long Island. Thursday, Rockland became one of the first counties in the state to offer part of the training to all its school board members through the Board of Cooperative Educational Services. Mattern praised the county for taking the initiative.

About 50 school board members, superintendents and school business officials attended two workshops designed to give new and veteran educators and school board members specific information about money. The two workshops were about creating and selling a budget, and how to spot fraud, mismanagement, waste and accounting errors. "I think it was valuable," said Peggy Powers, who was just elected to her first full three-year term on the Pearl River school board. "Everyone is hearing the governor's message and taking it seriously. Unfortunately, what's been going on on Long Island has put a very bad light on people.

What I found was that a lot of what they suggested to be put in place to prevent fraud we already do." State investigations on Long Island have so far led to indictments in seven school districts. School boards are the governing bodies that hire the superintendent, build budgets and approve expenditures for the public school districts. Rockland's school board members are volunteers who spend hundreds of hours a year doing the public's business. But while some of them are experts on finance and law in their professional lives, not all have financial expertise. The New York State School Boards Association provides information to new school board members, but there had been no formal training in the economics of running a school district.

That has now changed. The association has created a curriculum that fits the governor's requirement, and school board members are urged to get their training early. Some of the courses will be given at the coming state School Boards Association annual convention. But Nyack school board President Bryan Burrell, who heads the county's school board association, said the local organization wanted to get its members trained as soon as possible and do it locally. Craig Long, vice president of the Ramapo Central school board, was re-elected in May to his second three-year term.

He's been through three budget seasons, but said he still found the information useful. "If nothing else, it's going to make you look a little harder and a little deeper into the budgetary process," he said. "We have a very conscientious public, and I think that a lot is expected of us. When you look at the amount of money that's being spent on education, people expect you to be good stewards of the money. It's something that we don't take lightly." Reach Randi Weiner at rweinerthejournalnews.com or 845-578-2468.

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