🌱 Remember when Valley Cottage lit up Rockefeller Center in 1983?

Good day Valley Cottage! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• Remember when Valley Cottage lit up Rockefeller Center in 1983?

Also on today's calendar: Holidays on the Farm: The 49th Annual Holiday Exhibition and 6 more events.

📸 Have a great pic of holiday decorations from around Valley Cottage? Post it to Valley Cottage photos of the day! ☃️ 🟢-🟠-🟣-🔴-🟡-🔵 ☃️

Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Times of clouds and sunshine, with a high of 31 and low of 24 degrees.
• Wednesday: Rather cloudy and not as cold, temps: high: 44, low: 31.
• Thursday: Turning cloudy, with a high of 46 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Every Rockefeller Center Christmas tree since the 1930s, and where it came from (businessinsider.com subscription) — Valley Cottage gets a proud shout-out here as the 1983 home of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 75‑foot Norway spruce that lit up Midtown Manhattan. The piece walks through nearly a century of trees and their hometowns, highlighting how communities across New York and beyond have contributed to this iconic holiday tradition.
   

📸 Around Valley Cottage

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Valley Cottage

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 17

• Holidays on the Farm: The 49th Annual Holiday Exhibition
  Historical Society of Rockland County, 20 Zukor Rd, New City
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Tuesday December 16

• Fall J-Hoops Adult Basketball League
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  8:30 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Hanukkah Celebration
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  1:00 pm

Thursday December 18

• Book: Songs of Summer with Author Jane Rosen
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  1:00 pm
• Fall J-Hoops Adult Basketball League
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  8:30 pm

Sunday December 21

• Fall Mini All Sorts of Sports
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  9:00 am

Monday December 22

• Vacation Days at the J: Outer-Space Day
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  8:45 am
• Open Playtime
  Valley Cottage Library , 110 NY-303 , Valley Cottage
  10:00 am
• Masters of American Music: Patsy Cline 
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Special Board of Education Election
  South Orangetown Central School District , 160 Van Wyck Road , Blauvelt
  7:00 am
• RCS: Lift Your Life: Lesson 2: Reframing Rage
  Chabad of Briarcliff-Ossining , 15 Campwoods Road , Ossining
  10:30 am
• Tap Dance: Omar Edwards
  The Arts Council of Rockland , 9 N Main St , Spring Valley
  6:00 pm
• Fall J-Hoops Adult Basketball League
  JCC of Rockland , 450 West Nyack Road , West Nyack
  8:30 pm

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to the local businesses for making Valley Cottage PatchAM possible:

• Creative Arts Workshop - Nyack — (845) 535-9966
  CAW offers year round art-based youth services

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• It’s days like today that make me grateful I left my tall grasses, flowers and leaves in place for the winter for our Animal neighbors.
  They provide shelter, food, and incubators for birds, fireflies, turkeys and more…the difference between life and death. (Nextdoor Valley Cottage Village)

• AptarGroup posted a job opening for Molding Process Technician in Congers. Apply here.
• SAS Retail Services posted a job opening for Traveling Store Merchandiser in West Nyack. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Valley Cottage here.

🗞 Nearby News

New City

• Tappan Zee's Lani Bao leads 2025 Rockland girls swimming all-stars (lohud.com)
• Neighbors File Lawsuit Against Village of New Hempstead To Stop Redevelopment of New York Country Club's Golf Course (rcbizjournal.com)
• Latest Update: Storm's Biggest Snow Totals Reported In These North NJ Spots (dailyvoice.com)

Nanuet

• Edgecombe Furniture, Stacy Garcia Design Studio launch furniture line (homenewsnow.com)
• Vote for lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week, presented by White Plains Hospital (lohud.com)

Tarrytown

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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