Palisadian Kathy Sykes has joined the list of area potters, participating in a juried show, Made in Clay, sponsored by Greenwich House Pottery in New York City at the end of March.

Paul Papay has been appointed to serve on ACABOR, the Orangetown Architectural Community Appearance Board of Review.

Larry Bucciarelli has been re-appointed as a member of HABR, the Orangetown Historic Areas Board of Review.

In January, at the annual PCC meeting, over two dozen community members shared their concerns to Town officials about Palisades traffic. Councilwoman Nancy Low-Hogan has been extremely attentive to resolving our issues and has been pro-active in involving Police Chief Nulty and Superintendent of Highways Jim Dean. A dozen residents also attended the Town of Orangetown Traffic Advisory Board meeting in March to alert them of our concerns. In the last two months, traffic police have been visible on Oak Tree and other streets in Palisades, for three weeks a blinking speed sign was near placed near Jawanio and a traffic count was conducted revealing increased traffic and speed of motorists.

Last fall a small group of older Palisadians began to meet to discuss ways of supporting each other as they age in their homes. Returns to a questionnaire sent out in January indicated that a number of people were interested in the idea of such a support group.

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The buses were waiting outside Peninsula Hotel in Beijing, China at 8:30 on a chilly February morning last winter, clouds of exhaust hanging in the dirty air, ready to carry the musicians of the New York Philharmonic orchestra and hundreds of others, including press, patrons, and support staff, to the airport to catch a flight to one of the most mysterious and closed societies on Earth today—the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Riverspace Arts Center a New Presence in Community

There’s a phoenix rising in Nyack. Shaking off the dust of the now defunct Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Riverspace is a community-based performing arts center with a coherent strategy for the present, and ambitious plans for the future. The arts center is a joint effort between concerned citizens, and Friends of the Nyacks to ensure that high quality theater, music, film and dance have a presence in Rockland County. With one full-time employee (Managing Director, Dara Falco), a volunteer board of working professionals in the arts, a few techies, and a lot of smarts, Riverspace is tapping into an audience hungry for local live performance and quality entertainment.

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For more information about elections and your elected representatives, visit the Rockland County Board of Elections website. Know who your politicians are—Look it up!

The Disappearance of the Blinking Light Explained

At the Annual Town Meeting held at the PCC on January 30th, community members shared their concerns with Town Supervisor Thom Kleiner and new Council members Nancy Low-Hogan and Michael Maturo. Topics included zoning and setback laws, the Palisades school, and 9W development. However, the main focus of conversation turned to traffic.

Library Director's Memorial Service Held

Beatrice Agnew with her two children, Jean-Christophe, and Kim Dominique
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Born in Paris, daughter of painters Raymond Woog and Violette Picard, she met and married an American GI, Bill Agnew, in France. After World War II, she came to the United States, where she raised her two children, Jean-Christophe and Kim Dominique.

A Remembrance by Carol Elevitch

Beatrice Agnew 1923 - 2007
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When Beatrice and I met and became friends in the 1960s, she confided that upon first coming to the United States from France, newly married and with a small baby, she would sit in Washington Square and imagine how it would be to own a bookstore in Greenwich Village. But when she came to Palisades in the mid-1950s, it was through our small public library that she became involved with books.

Beatrice Agnew, in center, at groundbreaking for library addition in 1995
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PALISADES, N.Y. – At the corner of Oak Tree and Closter roads rises a very old building, once a comfortable house and now a comfortable library, still a home of delight, of interest and intellect, of curiosity and education. Its fireplace is without blaze, but books and magazines and comfortable chairs now draw you to what is still a hearth, one long tended to by a doting mistress. Beatrice Agnew, as French as an expatriate can be in America, with a critical, no-excuses eye for cultural standards and the reading component, has passed on, her nearly 40-year role as director of the Palisades Free Library over but long to be remembered.