As the fall begins, we resume work and school refreshed from a beautiful summer. The Palisades Presbyterian Church returns to our regular schedule.

Weekly service and gatherings schedule:

Sundays: 10:00 AM Worship and Sunday School

Tuesdays: 10:00 AM Tai Chi

Wednesdays: 12:15 PM Bible Study, AA Meetings: 7:30 PM, Womens AA Meeting: 9:00

Thursdays: 10:00-12:00 AM Play Group, 8:00 PM Choir Rehearsal

Fridays: 10:00 AM Chair Tai

Children’s Shakespeare Theater

The Rogue Players present Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

November 9, 10, 16 & 17 at 8:00 pm

November 11 at 4:00 pm at the Palisades Presbyterian Church

Why see it at Lincoln Center when you can see it with us for a mere $10?! It’s a tale of love and betrayal; of duty and war and intrigue—stolen children, a princess in disguise, an evil stepmother; a ridiculous villain who gets his head chopped off and all in the fantastical setting of Middle Earth! After all, why wear togas when hobbit feet are so much more fun?

It Needs Some Music: Composing for Stage and Screen

Sunday, October 7: Composer David Shire, an Oscar and Grammy winner and multiple Tony and Emmy nominee, talks about and performs some of his music for stage musicals and the movies, assisted by Broadway and off-Broadway singer/actress Lynne Wintersteller.

In August, the Palisades Free Library’s “Sunday Symposia: A Community Cultural Series” was selected as the winner of the 2007 Member Library Adult Program of the Year Award from RCLS, the Ramapo Catskill Library System*. The award will be presented at the System’s Annual Meeting, Friday, October 5, at the West Point Club. The Library’s Board of Trustees President, Mary Ellen Ledwith, will make a brief presentation describing the program and provide a display highlighting the program for over 100 attendees who are library directors and trustees.

It is back to school time and children all over Palisades will be boarding buses headed for school. Children do not wait at the corner for the school bus in our neighborhood. The reason? The corner of Muroney and Route 340 is just too dangerous. Cars on their way to the Volvo facility or Takasago or other companies in the Rockleigh Industrial Park roar past. They speed by our little corner year round often at forty miles an hour. Add to the mix trucks and vans pulling trailers full of landscaping gear and you have a dangerous combination. It is just not safe for children to wait so close to this road and the younger ones can never wait there without supervision. So parents and children wait about twenty feet down from Muroney.

Owner of Dapper Dog, Gerry Tartaglione
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I first heard of Dapper Dog, a pet supply and professional grooming shop in Nyack, shortly after the Katrina disaster when I read that it was bringing in a number of homeless pets rescued after the storm. I encountered the name again recently and learned about Gerry Tartaglione, the feisty, passionate woman who owns the shop, when I saw a notice in our library about a cat that needed a home.

Broderick G. Morales, age 19, lives in Palisades with his mother, father and sister. In 2005, Morales was in a serious car accident and suffered a severe brain injury. As part of his recovery, he is painting. A selection of his paintings are hanging at Galleria Melodia, 530A Piermont Ave., Piermont, a new art space owned by the Morales family in Piermont. It has been open since Memorial Day, and his latest work is being shown starting this week. The gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For information, call 845-825-4786.

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Spring Clean-up and Mini-Earth Day
Saturday, May 19, 2007
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM at the Palisades Community Center

All families are invited to come and help clean our Community Center as well as our Palisades neighborhood. Fun activities for the kids will include, planting bulbs, setting up spring garden, arts and crafts from recycled materials and more. Adult help is needed in cleaning up bocce ball court, raking, fixing driveway, cleaning inside of Center as well as picking-up garbage up and down Oak Tree Road. (Students who need community service hours may attend.)

For information, contact Michele Balm at miepbalm@aol.com or Carol Baxter at carolbax@optonline.net

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Memorial Day Pancake Breakfast
Monday May 28th 8:00 -10:30 AM. An event always anticipated by local residents, start the holiday with a hearty breakfast of juice, sausage and pancakes. In the Parish house, Adults: $5.00 and Children under 10: $3.00

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19 Closter Road, Palisades, NY 10964
Phone: 845-359-0136, Fax: 845-359-6124
pal@rcls.org, www.rcls.org/pal
Closed May 28th, July 4th.
Closed Sundays from June 17th through September 2nd

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s first ship was the R/V Vema, acquired in 1952. She was succeeded by the Robert D. Conrad, the Eltanin, and the Maurice Ewing. But today’s requirements for a seismic research vessel are greater than ever before. Several years ago the search began for a new vessel that could meet the new demands. Western Legend, a commercial seismic exploration vessel owned by Western Geco, Inc., turned out to be the ideal candidate.

Thane and Sheila Asch, who recently returned after spending several months in Florida, will soon move to Hickory Hill Two in Tappan.

The 19th birthday of Skip and Linda Vezzetti's dog Boomer, a miniature poodle, was celebrated on March 10. Guest included Betty Bacheldor, the Knudson family, and the Garrison family. Sadly, Boomer died on March 22.

Stone plaque from the Palisades School
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The South Orangetown Central School District is looking for ways to offset the cost of upcoming critical facilities improvements to the schools. Last year, the district’s Finance Council suggested learning what our four “excess” properties are worth looking towards the possible sale of one or more of these properties. On March 21, at the SOCSD Board of Education meeting, the crowd in the packed TZHS cafeteria listened to the long-awaited appraisals of the four properties and the preliminary 2007-08 budget presentation.

In Search of Extraordinary Palisadians

Fundraising Event Planned for Fall, 2007

The Yoga Experience

These days, yoga studios are as ubiquitous as wheat grass on juice bar shelves.

Yesterday, March 21, the Board of Education publicly presented formal appraisals for the proposed sale of four school properties owned by the South Orangetown district.

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plants 2 and 3, like other nuclear generating plants in the United States, were originally licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 40 years.

Since 1936, the red brick Palisades School has quietly held a solid position in the center of our Palisades hamlet. It wasn’t until a recent rumor that it was to be sold that we learned just how shaky is the ground it sits upon.

We celebrate our 30th anniversary with this March issue – quite an accomplishment for an all-volunteer publication.

There are a number of active issues in Palisades that are of community concern.