Category Archives: General

  Orientation This Coming Saturday, May 18 If your child is ready to matriculate to middle school, the award-winning Paul Revere Middle School will host “Ready, Set, Revere” this Saturday, May 18. Parents and incoming students will get a jump...

Adds an Event for Parents This Sunday The 47th Annual Optimist/YMCA Track Meet is now open for registration. This year there is a twist: Everyone is running because there is a 50- and 100-meter dash for moms and dads –...

Install Advertising Banners on Swarthmore Uber banners were attached to the street light poles along Swarthmore Avenue in Palisades Village in March. Now they are coming down. A May 13 email from Street Services Assistant Director Megan Hackney said, “We...

Madame Pamita Reads the Tarot Cards If you take a 10-year-old child to a Salem, Massachusetts souvenir shop and tell them they can select one item, they might choose jewelry, a book or even a stuffed animal. Not Pamela Moore,...

Kids Can Play on the Lawn during Happy Hour Palisadian Marissa Hermer, co-owner of The Draycott at Palisades Village, has introduced a child-friendly time at the restaurant on Tuesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Adults can enjoy a happy-hour drink...

Expanded to Include Fiske and Albright This week, preferential parking signs went up on several blocks of Fiske Street and part of Albright (between Fiske and Embury). This is the second group of streets around Caruso’s Palisades Village to enact...

Small Claims Court and His Former Employer Say you have employed the same cleaning lady for the past four years. One week, you tell her you forgot to go to the bank, but you’ll pay her next time. She’ll probably...

To Address Historical Society Monday Night Donna Rifkind will discuss her upcoming book, “The Sun and Her Stars: Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood,” at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 13, at the Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyn Rd. Admission...

Exhibit Featuring Photographer Brathwaite By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling The News Contributor It’s a curious hyphenate, African-American, as black Americans’ African antecedents (slaves) were purposely stripped of their “African” heritage, and the equality promised to all Americans for many still remains...

What Does the Five-Leaf Clover Mean? Fiske Street residents Arnold and Sigrid Hofer alerted Circling the News that Arnold, who regularly finds four-leaf clovers in their backyard, had found a five-leaf one the end of April. Arnold, a retired tool...