Ray Kondracki stood in front of a flat, unadorned expanse of lawn on a recent day, a look of anticipation on his face. “If they build it, they will come,” he said. He didn’t mean the people who once lived and worked in the boys home/orphanage that twice stood on the site. Twice because the original burned down in 1907 and a replacement burned and was rebuilt in the 1950 before the facility was finally closed and demolished in the 1970s. Now the site, which is owned by the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill and sits in front of their convent, will be turned into a 200-meter track for a college track team that has never had its own track. The sisters are leasing the land for an unspecified, but reportedly very small, amount to St. Thomas Aquinas College, the school the order founded more than 70 years ago on adjacent property. For about two decades, St. Thomas Aquinas College (known locally simply as STAC) has fielded winter indoor and spring outdoor track teams. Despite the lack of a ...