In the News:

• South Orangetown School Budget Vote and School Board Election
• Palisades Resident Honored
• Last Lamont Lecture
• Dorothy Turns 90
• Tragic Loss for Postmistress
• Goodbye to the Palisades Driving Range!
• We Will Have a Memorial Day!

Church news and list of events.

Library news: summer programs for children, new books and DVDs, museum passes, and digitized resources.

In the wake of recent hearings relating to proposed luxury real-estate development on the site of what was, for many years, the 9W Driving Range, many local residents have expressed concerns about the effectiveness, responsiveness, and integrity of the Historic Areas Board of Review process. Notwithstanding the clear language of the law - which gives both the HABR and ACABOR authority over the size and scale of new construction within the Historic District - as well as strong representations with broad-based community support made by Historic District residents to the HABR and ACABOR, in this as in other cases which have come before these boards, they have declined to respond meaningfully to community views or to exercise their full legal mandate in regard to new construction in the Historic District.

This spring, you’ll probably have to move quickly to get in your last swings at the 9W Golf Range. Approval for the residential subdivision on the 18.5 acre site is rapidly nearing completion, according to Debbie Arbolino at the Orangetown Building Department. “This one has gone pretty fast—they are pretty professional and right on top of things,” she added.

New books and DVDs, upcoming library programs and events.

Church announcements, events, special services, workshops.