Interior Designer ERNIE DE LA TORRE and architect WALTER CAIN have restaged Edward Hopper's bedroom in the historic Hopper House Museum located in Nyack. It will open to the public on March 9.

For the past year Palisades resident GRETA NETTLETON, with the help of many dedicated volunteers, rowers and non-rowers alike, has headed Rockland Rowing Association’s Adaptive Rowing Program. A core group of athletes with physical disabilities including spinal cord injury, head injury, and amputation, has become deeply involved in the sport. Besides practicing on Rockland Lake twice a week, they traveled to a national adaptive regatta in Philadelphia, where they brought home two golds, two silvers and a bronze medal. They also traveled to a November scrimmage with RowNY in Queens. During the winter rowers work out indoors on rowing machines known as “ergs." The team won three gold medals at the Don Bosco Ironman Ergathon in January in Ramsey NJ.

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PALISADES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Washington Spring Road, PO Box 687
Palisades, New York, 10964
Phone: 845-359-3147
Email: ppc10964@gmail.com
Website: www.palpresny.org

This past summer, the Palisades Presbyterian Church received a generous donation from one of its members to be used for, among other things, a new covered entrance to the pastor’s office on the east side of the church along with a sidewalk leading to that office and a handicap access ramp off the front of the building. The donors chose architect William Pfaff, a member of the church, to design the project. After church members approved his design the plan was submitted to the Historic Board (HABR) and the ZBA in November.

Over the years, the Town of Orangetown has made a commitment to improve existing sidewalks and to install new ones on Oak Tree Road in Palisades. The remaining section still in need of completing is identified by the Highway Department as between RT 340 and the J.B. Clarke Rail Trail.

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Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System and ANSER Network
19 Closter Road Palisades, NY 10964
845-359-0136
Fax 845-359-6124
www.palisadeslibrary.org

Hours: Monday - Thursday 11:00 am - 9:00 pm,
Friday - Saturday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, Sunday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm.

Next Meeting of the Board of Trustees and Friends of the Palisades Free Library: check library website.

Holidays: Closed Good Friday, March 30

Director: Maria Gagliardi; Board of Trustees: Marjorie Galen, President; Beverly Warwick, Vice- President; Christopher Keywork, Treasurer; Jen Citrolo, Secretary; Natalie Barak; Margaret Cook; Suzanna Frosch; John Guzewich; Sarah Buterbaugh

Former town supervisor Andy Stewart enthusiastically announced closing a deal in October involving a land sale of 60 acres, part of the former site of the Rockland Psychiatric Center. The sale of the property, which has never been on the town tax roll, was sold to JP Morgan Chase Bank for a price of $7.5 million dollars.

I’m with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you’re
losing the game of the actual pingpong
of the abyss

I’m with you in Rockland
where you bang on the catatonic piano the soul
is innocent and immortal it should never die
ungodly in an armed madhouse…

I’m with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a seajourney
on the highway across America in
tears to the door of my cottage in the Western
night

excerpts from Howl (for Carl Solomon) by Allen Ginsberg, 1956

On December 8 the first of 2,260 new street lights for our town were installed in Sparkill by All Bright Electric. The $2.3 million dollar investment will save the town an estimated $400,000 a year in utility costs. The new fixtures should end up saving our town millions of dollars over their estimated 20 year lifespan.

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Chris Day, Orangetown’s newly elected Town Supervisor, was kind enough to sit down with us to discuss his goals and a number of issues important to our community. Here are his comments.

On February 5, over 150 residents from Piermont and Palisades attended a meeting held at Piermont Village Hall where NYS DEC presented their plans to protect and restore portions of the Piermont Marsh. The DEC’s plan to use the herbicide “glyphosate” was met with great concern by nearly all attending, with several people speaking out forcefully about the known dangers to both humans and wildlife.

We want to hear from YOU.

What’s on your mind…

What do you love about living in Palisades?

What do you see as its problems?

Tell us in 40 words or less via our email at info@Palisadesny.com

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Christmas Eve Services
December 24: 10:00 am: Regular Service
5:30 pm: Family Christmas Service
11:00 pm: Candlelight Christmas Service

Katie Elevitch Opens Art Gallery
Former Palisades resident Katie Elevitch has opened up 95 1/2 Main, an Art Gallery and Arts Event and Workshop Space in the heart of downtown Nyack.. The next group exhibit opens Friday December 1st, and is titled "Quiet and Noise: Peace in Painful Times" and will feature local Rockland County artists. Also in December: Katie will perform an intimate concert of original music to launch the space's new music and performance series “The Listening Room” on Thursday Dec. 7, 7:00-9:00 pm. Proceeds from this concert will benefit 95 1/2 Main's arts programs and exhibitions.

Palisades Free Library
Member of the Ramapo Catskill Library System and ANSER Network
19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964
845-359-0136, Fax 845-359-6124
www.palisadeslibrary.org

Hours: Monday - Thursday 11-9, Friday - Saturday 11-5, Sunday 1-5

The Lamont Hall Project

Lamont Hall
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Lamont Hall, the majestic 1929 vintage mansion, has been the intellectual, cultural, and emotional center of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus for nearly 70 years. Its corridors hold the echoes of Observatory founder Maurice Ewing and a legion of groundbreaking Earth scientists. It was originally built as country home for financier Thomas Lamont. The building is richly appointed with brownstone, clapboard, and slate roof on the exterior, lath and plaster interior with intricate crown molding, millwork finishes and hardwood floors.

This November, New Yorkers voted on whether to convene a state constitutional convention, which we are obliged to do every twenty years by state law, and once again, we rejected the referendum, which we have done every opportunity since 1938.

Palisadian Bryan Shih, photographer and journalist, formerly of The Financial Times and NPR, photographed surviving Black Panthers, all rank-and-file members of the party, over four years, and interviewed them about their work and its impact on their lives. The resulting book, The Black Panthers: Portraits From an Unfinished Revolution, was published last year on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense in Oakland, California.

With the Iran nuclear agreement now in question and North Korea testing its rapidly developing nuclear arsenal, the terrifying possibility of a nuclear war should be of major concern to all of us. Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, just released by Columbia University Press and written by Dr. Lynn R. Sykes for a general audience, is particularly relevant with all that is going on today.

Palisades Presbyterian Church
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PO Box 687
117 Washington
Spring Rd.
Palisades, New York 10964

Office Hours: 9:30 am - 2:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday