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In 1989, the IBM Conference Center was established in Palisades. Created as a conference and executive training center for IBM employees, in the mid-1990s the facility was opened to outside corporations and groups. The 206 room hotel, classrooms, and elegant dining rooms that could be converted into conference spaces equipped with high-speed internet, state-of-the-art technology, and a wide-range of amenities were available to conference guests in a beautiful, secluded setting with ponds complete with resident swans.

Great news! At an April 11 meeting with the NYS Department of Transportation and Assembly member Ellen Jaffee, we were informed that our requested safety improvements to the Route 9W/Oak Tree Road intersection have been approved.

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Thank You to Our Community!
Thank you to all who have become members of the PCC, have given financial donations and attended our events this year. Since volunteers operate all PCC activities, 100% of donations and membership dollars go directly to the up keep and restoration of this historic building. Thank you!

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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

On every continent and in every ocean, Lamont researchers are studying climate, geology, natural hazards, ecology and more. This year, expeditions are taking these curious explorers to the far reaches of the earth. They will be traveling to India, Myanmar, Bhutan, Antarctic, Alaska, Chile, Patagonia, Sicily, Comora Islands off southeast Africa, North Sumatra, China and more. The following are a number of Lamont projects closer to home.

LYNN R. SYKES HONORED BY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Palisades resident Lynn R. Sykes, professor emeritus at Lamont-Doherty, will receive an honorary degree from Columbia University at Commencement ceremonies on May 16. Honorary degrees are bestowed on several individuals each year who exemplify the ideals of the University through their significant scholarly, artistic or societal achievements or contributions. This is the highest honor that the University can bestow.

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PALISADES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
117 Washington Spring Road, PO Box 687
Palisades, New York 10964
Phone: 845-359-3147
Email: ppc10964@gmail.com
Website: www.palpresny.org
Worship Hours: 10:00 am every Sunday

Genealogical research can help you learn about your recent ancestors, but what about the deeper past? Models vary, but you probably had over 1,000 ancestors living contemporaneously just 300 years ago in 1700. DNA tests can provide great big-picture insights about one’s ancestry going back thousands of years into human history.

Smart phones, smart thermostats, smart door locks - it seems that anything today can start with the word smart if it performs its function remotely. This prefix certainly applies to the new “smart meters” O&R has begun installing in our area. These smart electric and gas meters give the the utility company the ability to switch off the power to our homes remotely and instantly. They are also able to provide the utility company with almost real time access to our power usage. This has caused concern about who has access to this data. For example, knowing the power consumption in your home can easily give someone access to information about whether you are home or not. Also, a controversial episode happened this past fall when victims of hurricane Harvey had their power cut off before the arrival of the hurricane in a pre-emptive move by the grid operator, causing anger and frustration with customers trying to evacuate.

I’m sure at one time or another you may have strolled or biked along the scenic, wooded path in Tallman Mountain State Park, but did you know that that path is part of a 358-mile long hiking trail known as the Long Path? Conceived in 1931 by Vincent J. Schaefer, the idea for the Long Path was to create an unmarked route connecting scenic and historic points of interest stretching from northern Manhattan to the Adirondacks. The opening stanza of Walt Whitman’s iconic poem “Song of the Open Road” inspired the path’s name.

PALISADES COMMUNITY CENTER
675 Oak Tree Road Palisades, NY

PALISADES WINTER FARMERS' MARKET
Saturdays 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Not every community can say they have their very own Farmers’ Market. For the 10th year, we bring the farms, directly to you! In addition, we offer a variety of artisanal specialty items, bakery and Balthazar Breads.
IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN YET, STOP BY!!!!
Market ends March 31

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.