Palisades News

On the Fourth of July in years past, as the sky over the East River exploded in a spectacular display of shapes and colors, viewers along the New Jersey waterfront had to settle for glimpses of fireworks between or over the tops of Manhattan's skyscrapers.

Here's a recap of the June 16 Town Board meeting. Supervisor Alex Gromack and Town Board members Shirley Lasker, George Hoehmann, John Maloney and Frank Borelli were present.

ORANGEBURG - Daniel Lynn is not your typical valedictorian. The Columbia University-bound student was one of around 250 who graduated from Tappan Zee High School yesterday evening, and he confessed he might not have been the most well-behaved student in his class.

I don't like horror movies much. If I watch one, it has to be over-the-top fiction, with characters way different than myself and in a far-away place, or I don't sleep so well.

A visit to The Outside In Piermont gets started, fittingly, while you're still outside.

Peter Kearney's mother has a saying: "God fits the back for the burden." Kearney, a 45-year-old New York City fire captain and Orangeburg resident, has often reflected on those words during the past few years.

Scientists have peered back in time with a new analytical technique to see atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide more than 2 million years into the past.

Rain-slicked roads were keeping the early morning trip to work slow on several of the Lower Hudson Valley's major commuting routes at 8:45 a.m. today, police said.

Columbia Univ.'s Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building achieves harmony with its dramatic surroundings while giving its researchers both form and function.

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NJ Transit and the Port Authority started construction today of what is being billed at the biggest transit project in the country - the $8.7 billion rail tunnel and station that will double commuter train access to Manhattan.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Village tax roll and warrant for the 2009/10 fiscal year have been delivered to the Village Clerk-Treasurer for the collection of taxes levied on such roll.

Where does North Korea's nuclear program go from here? That's a key technical question in the wake of Pyongyang's underground test of a nuclear device on May 25.

Proliferation experts will want to determine, in particular: the nature of that nuclear device, whether it went off as expected, and whether the North Koreans now intend to produce more fissile material for a potential weapons stockpile.

"There's a tremendous amount we do not know about North Korea," said Richard Bush III, a former US National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, at a Brookings Institution seminar on the nuclear crisis May 27.

Pillars of smoke rose over four locations in Rockland yesterday to symbolize the meaning of Memorial Day.

His public schedule listed no official events, so President Barack Obama had plenty of time to devote to being a weekend dad and spouse.

This undated handout photo released by the Korean Central News Agency on January 5, 2009 shows a missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea.

The nuclear explosion set off by North Korea this week is bad news for would-be nuclear nations.

Many local libraries offer adult programs that feature notable community members.

The historic Village of Irvington, named for Americaa TMs great literary figure Washington Irving, will mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudsona TMs discovery voyage on River Day, June 6, 2009, in our waterfront Scenic Hudson Park between 2 and 5 pm.

Columbia University's new Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York recently earned three separate design awards: R&D Magazine's 2009 Lab of the Year, a 2009 Sustainable Design Award from EPA and the Boston Society of Architects, and an Excellence in Architecture in a New Building from AIA ...