PALISADES MILLENNIAL STARTS HER OWN BUSINESS
Savannah Smith, a Palisades native, has launched Seven Bakers Lane, a home grown operation specializing in baked creations as beautiful as they are delicious. Contact her at sevenbakerslane@gmail.com for made to order cakes, pies, pastries and cookies - at least until the end of this summer when she plans to move to Brooklyn and eventually open a storefront.

SKIP VEZZETTI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK STATE HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENTS' ASSOCIATION
On January 29, 2018, the New York State County Highway Superintendents’ Association (NYSCHSA) elected Charles H. "Skip" Vezzetti President of NYSCHSA. A native of Rockland County, Vezzetti is the current Superintendent of Highways for Rockland County. He has previously served as Commissioner of Public Works and Superintendent of Highways for the Town of Orangetown. He is the second person from Palisades to have served as Superintendent of Highways for Orangetown and the first person from the Town of Orangetown to serve as County Highway Superintendent.

PALIS-AGERS
The Palis-Agers will meet on May 19 at 1:30 pm in the Community Room of the Palisades Presbyterian Church to share coffee, cookies and conversation. The meeting is open to anyone 70 years of age or older. Please call Alice Gerard at 845-359-4338 if you have any questions or suggestions about meeting topics.

A NOTE FROM BOB JOHNSON
I was very pleased to run across your wonderful website. I was brought up on Horne Tooke Road from 1957 (I was 12 when my parents moved) until 1969 when I graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University after getting a design degree from the Art Center School in Los Angeles. I then married a teacher from the Rose Haven School for Girls and moved away. I had a paper route on the Rockleigh side, worked at the Rockleigh Esso all through high school, and cleaned pools (DeFlorez, Knowlton, Wallace,) was good friends with Polly Cameron, etc., etc. I miss Palisades, but alas, I am retired in central Tennessee. I can be reached at 931-252-2448 or by email at robertj291@gmail.com

LOREN PLOTKIN JOINS THE HISTORICAL AREAS BOARD OF REVIEW
Palisades resident Loren Plotkin joins HABR for a four year term ending in 2022. He replaces Wayne Garrison (thank you Wayne for your many years of service), and joins fellow Palisades residents Larry Bucciarelli and William Walther on this important seven-person board that reviews all construction requiring a building permit in the Historic Area, and/or any exterior changes to buildings constructed prior to 1918.

GRETA NETTLETON WINS LARC BOOK AWARD
*The Quack’s Daughter* garners Palisades author Greta Nettleton the 2017 Book of the Year Award from the Library Association of Rockland County. The ceremony will be on Friday, June 15 at the New City Library. If you are a Rockland resident and have published a book in the last three years, LARC will accept submissions for the next Book of the Year Award from June 15 to August 17. Congratulations Greta!

PALISADES CEMETERY UPDATE
Our historic cemetery is a beautiful place in the spring, and I hope that you will stop by to see it if you have never been there. We are happy to report that a generous gift will allow us to begin to repair and re-erect some of the damaged older stones. Please call Alice Gerard at 845- 359-4338 if you are interested in buying a grave. She will show you what is available and answer any questions you have. Each grave costs $2000 and will hold three cremation burials or two regular burials.