Back in Time
BACK IN TIME: The Tenafly Theater
TENAFLY, N.J.—These days people are going to Tenafly’s movie theater to see “Avengers: Endgame,” but this week back in 1923 local residents packed the house to see a silent […]
Month: May 2019
Back in Time
LEARN ABOUT THEIR LEGACY: Women Pilots of World War II
During World War II, more than 1,000 women volunteers completed the W.A.S.P. military pilot training program. They endured terrible Texas weather, snakes, spiders and scorpions, as well as the hostility […]
Englewood
Activists To Rally at ‘March For Our Lungs’
Local activists will rally May 18 at the so-called “March for our Lungs,” opposing a plan to build the North Bergen Liberty Generating facility, nicknamed the Meadowlands Power Plant. The […]
Englewood
Englewood City Manager Replaced; New Search Begins
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—A former borough administrator of nearby Tenafly officially takes over as Englewood’s interim city manager May 13 and former manager Ed Hynes—suspended April 16 unanimously by City Council—remains suspended […]
Englewood
ROTARY DEFINES GIVING: Project Shares Knowledge with Students
ENGLEWOOD, N.J.—The Rotary Club of Englewood believes that dictionaries are an invaluable learning tool for children. As such, Rotary has been implementing its annual Dictionary Program, in which all third-graders […]
Park Ridge
DIGGING FOR HISTORY: Wampum at Park Ridge Site?
PARK RIDGE, N.J.—A team of archaeologists is set to dig in a public park here as early as May 20 in hopes of finding fragments of shells used centuries ago […]
Hillsdale
With Book and Award, Hillsdale’s Rosemarie D’Alessandro Grows Child Safety Movement
HILLSDALE, N.J.—It’s been a busy time for Rosemarie D’Alessandro, founder of the Joan Angela D’Alessandro Memorial Foundation, and that’s the way she likes it. She says it means more people […]
Northern Valley Press
Measles Outbreak Worries Area Health Officials
NORTHERN VALLEY AREA, N.J.—While two cases of visitors to Bergen County infected with measles—one in Englewood a year ago and one in Hillsdale in February—did not cause any additional cases […]
Closter
Mayors Will Meet on CSX Concerns, Rail Crossings
HARRINGTON PARK, N.J.—A meeting of mayors and public officials from five Northern Valley towns and several additional municipalities crossed by CSX railroad lines occurs Wednesday, May 22, at 10 a.m. […]
Alpine
‘Jersey Gals’ Seek Support Ahead of Senior Games
NORTHERN VALLEY AREA, N.J.—A local women’s 55-plus softball team, Jersey Gals, qualified in the New Jersey Senior Olympics to represent New Jersey in the National Senior Games, being held in […]