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.

On Wednesday, September 27, members and friends of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory broke ground on a new geochemistry research building. The Observatory's existing geochemistry building dates from the early 1950's and can no longer support the kinds of leading-edge research needed to answer the most pressing questions about Earth and its climate.

The Children’s Enrichment Center (CEC), a non-profit cooperative preschool, has been a wonderful addition to the Palisades community for the past six years. Now, according to director Joanne Volpe, the CEC has been asked to vacate the building at the end of June, as the local school district may soon sell the entire 8.3 acre property on which it sits. If the property is not sold by that time, the district is planning to rent the entire building to the Fred S. Keller School, which, according to its Facility Manager Christopher D. Manikas, is very pressed for space and wishes to occupy the entire building.

Currently, the South Orangetown school district is in the process of getting four parcels of their land appraised to see what our district’s assets are worth and what the costs are to maintain them. In late November, concerned residents were told that any decision to sell the Palisades school, or any other school property, was “a long way off”. They were told that nothing would be decided before the appraisals were completed and that the district would hold public discussions before any decisions about a sale were made.

The 9W Golf Range property has changed hands for the second time since being sold by the Kopac family to MWD Star Group LLC last year. Star sold to an intermediary company who then resold the tract to Lennar Inc., the nation’s third largest developer. Starting this past summer, Lennar carried out improvements (road, drainage, berms etc.) according to a plan prepared by the Star Group and signed off by the Orangetown planning board a year ago.

One-On-One Learning was founded almost ten years ago in February 1997 by Sister Cecilia LaPietra O.P. of the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill. Sister Cecilia was part of an education committee at the convent. They noticed the growing community of Hispanic laborers in the hamlet and decided to use their educational skills to help solve the language difficulties prevalent among their new neighbors.