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Pirates baseball: No place like road

The Palisades Pirates (5-7) are over halfway through their season … and on their way to a quirky record. No sport has a greater home field advantage than baseball. Yet the Pirates are better than …

In an unusual move at this time of year, the Palisades School Board has sent the district budget proposal for the coming school year back to its fiscal oversight committee.

The Palisades Community Foundation (PCF) invites you to a free concert on The Knecht Bridge from 3:30 to 5 p.m April 20.The Palisades High School Band will perform “The Red Covered Bridge’” by …

March has been quite the month for Savannah Witt. The Palisades High School junior made history earlier this month when she became the first PIAA girls state champion in the 118-pound weight class, …

Freshmen softball pitchers don’t just enter the ring and throw a perfect game in their first varsity start. They need at least five outings. It took Palisades’ Karlye Teman five whole starts before …

Palisades junior Savannah Witt won the 118-pound title at the inaugural PIAA girls wrestling championships, held last week at the Giant Center in Hershey. Fellow Pirate Bryce Snyder joined Witt on the …

Palisades School District officials applied for — and received — special recognition from the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. To a burst of civic pride at their February school board …

Social studies teachers from the Palisades School District got to check out the weight of a Revolution-era cannonball and examine a Colonial stoveback during a tour of the Durham Grist Mill this month.

The national education organization best known for its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Advanced Placement (AP) programs and testing has given the Palisades School District special recognition for encouraging young women to study computer science.

No surprise parties when America turns 250

When a bunch of politicians descended on Durham-Nockamixon Elementary School this month, they delivered an important heads-up to the students: the nation’s 250th birthday is coming in just two years. That would be the semiquincentennial celebration in July 2026. It’s history in the making.

It hasn’t been the season the Palisades boys basketball team had hoped for. Following the departure of first-year head coach Bob Musantry, who resigned after the team’s 2-15 start and the recent …

Karlee Krchnavi knows some things about how to win, and how to win at Palisades. Krchnavi is the Pirates’ all-time leading scorer and rebounder. She was a three-year starter at Division I …

With two members of last year’s Palisades School Board not seeking re-election, and two more resigning last spring before their terms were up, the Palisades School District seated four new members …

Palisades closes book on season

The 2023 Palisades boys soccer season did not go the way Trevor Johnson thought it would. But the senior captain was pleasantly surprised. “Honesty, at the beginning of the year, I projected we’d …

Palisades closes book on season

The 2023 Palisades boys soccer season did not go the way Trevor Johnson thought it would.But the senior captain was pleasantly surprised.“Honesty, at the beginning of the year, I projected we’d …

A day at the polls in the more rural Upper Bucks communities is often a bit of a gabfest for voters who don’t see each other as often as those in more heavily populated areas. They often stand …

Saul Ramos and Karen Beerer for Palisades School Board

It is an extremely rare instance in today’s politicized and polarized world when people from the opposing political parties can come together, put aside their philosophical differences and unite …

At the Oct. 18 Palisades School Board meeting, residents and board members expressed outrage at the distribution of a political flyer supporting Kathleen Gentner.

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