Palisades News

Nineteenth-century Christmas decorations, kitchen implements, and clothes and jewelry were on display at a holiday open house hosted by the Orangetown Historical Museum and Archives on Sunday.

The seismic record at Palisades, NY, 34 km north of the World Trade Center. [Source: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory] According to a seismographical study conducted by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, five distinct shocks occur at the World Trade Center site.

On Dec. 12-13, the Rockland County Music Teacher's Guild held a music marathon at the Palisades Center to benefit United Hospice of Rockland's music therapy program.

A series of three accidents on two of Rockland's busiest roads made travel around the county difficult Wednesday night, said Orangetown police.

As if waiting to finish your Christmas shopping wasn't already stressful enough, the storm that kept people home over the weekend has added to the frenzy as shoppers rush to check off their lists before Santa comes to town.

Holiday shopping is fun, but holiday crowds? Not so much. That's why when we venture into the madness, we do so with escapes in mind.

As the season's first major snowstorm begins to head out of the region, residents from across the Lower Hudson Valley began digging out as highway crews worked through the night to make roadways passable.

At least they had the day to get ready for the snow. Unlike New Jersey, where snow stymied shopping, or Washington D.C., where the storm forced President Barack Obama to ride a motorcade rather than helicopter from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House , residents of the Lower Hudson Valley had clear roads into the evening Saturday.

The Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at Columbia Universitya s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, NY, is the recipient of three different awards in 2009.

FISHKILL - Shane 'White Feather' Hobel of Mountain Scout Survival School will present a special program on tracking skills at Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan.

The past four years have featured a regular December feature I call the Christmas Wish List.

PEARL RIVER - A small room called a locker room has only a few lockers. Shower rooms for both men and women haven't been used for years because shower drains are not adequate and not connected to sewer lines.

The new year will see construction begin in Manhattan on the $8.7 billion NJ Transit-Port Authority project to double commuter rail capacity to Midtown.

Police and prosecutors in Rockland County said they busted up a drug-running ring that used many teenagers as dealers for prescription medications stolen from medicine cabinets at home.

Charity begins at home, as the old saying goes, and Rockland County entertainers take that proverb to heart.

What do you do when the director who revived your theater program takes a job elsewhere? If you're students at Peekskill High School, you try your hand at Shakespeare.

A year-long undercover investigation into the sale of prescription drugs to teenagers outside a local elementary school and in the mall has resulted in the arrest of 23 people, authorities announced this morning.

Authorities are searching the area near the Palisades Mall for a man wanted for questioning in connection with the death of a popular Rockland County gym teacher, PIX News has learned.

ORANGETOWN - In an early touch of winter, a brisk west wind swirled orange and yellow leaves around the front lawn of Palisades Community Center.

Re the series of Tappan Zee Bridge/Interstate 287 Project open houses in Westchester and Rockland counties last week: The only thing missing from these traveling Tappan Zee mega-bridge road shows is a carnival barker standing outside.