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December 21, 2025
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Month: December 2025

Montvale

Town hall on affordable housing settlement postponed; proposed e-bike ordinance taking shape

December 21, 2025 Michael Olohan

MONTVALE — A community town hall meeting planned for Monday, Dec. 22, on Montvale’s mediated Fourth Round affordable housing settlement has been postponed “as we do not yet have any […]

Westwood's Rich Poggi and his first novel.
Community Voices

The long game: Rich Poggi on writing, grief, and golf

December 21, 2025 John Snyder

Westwood author Rich Poggi didn’t set out to become a novelist.  Fairways and Greens, his debut work of fiction, began years ago as a screenplay he once hoped to pitch […]

Park Ridge

$3.45M EPA grant aids more water-well cleanup work

December 21, 2025 Michael Olohan

PARK RIDGE—The Borough Council on Dec. 9 unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing $4,025,000 in bond funding for water treatment systems at municipal wells 16 and 19, part of an effort […]

Hillsdale’s police force in 1928: James Holland, Charles Bulach, Chief Lawrence Foley, William Bulach, and Henry Koelsch. The starting salary for a Hillsdale police officer was $1,650, while the chief made $2,000 a year.
Back in Time

A century ago, a police booth was a Christmas gift to Hillsdale

December 21, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

Hillsdale’s iconic police booth — the first police headquarters in the borough — was a Christmas gift from the Board of Trade, an organization of local businessmen, in 1925. A […]

U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer with the Fifth District’s latest “Hometown Heroes” honorees at the district’s Hometown Heroes Ceremony, held Monday, Dec. 15 at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee — among them Westwood student leader Jordan Schwartz, Woodcliff Lake resident Jennifer Errity, and Montvale honorees Valerie Kimel and Chief Geoffrey Gibbons. Via Haradan Bottomley of Joshh Gottheimer’s office.
Emerson

Look to Our Helpers: Pascack Valley well represented in latest Fifth District Hometown Heroes awards

December 21, 2025 John Snyder

FORT LEE—U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer honored 20 Fifth District residents as Hometown Heroes during a ceremony held Monday, Dec. 15, at the Barrymore Film Center, recognizing “life-saving first responders, veterans, […]

Pascack Press

Police: Keys left inside; vehicle stolen between 5 and 5:30 a.m. on Fern Street

December 19, 2025 Pascack Press

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON — The police were called to a Fern Street home on the east side of town early this morning after a report of a stolen vehicle. Police […]

In which Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo grieves the evident impending loss of the borough’s storied “Kissing Tree,” the second-tallest copper beech in Bergen County. This proud beauty was recently recognized as an important Heritage Tree, and could be older than the United States. Richard Frant tree photo; Arroyo photo: John Snyder/file
Pascack Press

Kissing Tree, possibly older than U.S., faces terminal fungus; borough weighs safety, prepares to grieve

December 18, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — A copper beech that may have taken root before the nation itself was born — our storied “Kissing Tree” in Veterans Park, where young love has flowered for generations and residents recently […]

Hillsdale

PVRHSD board extends Interim Superintendent Dirk Phillips for another year

December 16, 2025 John Snyder

MONTVALE—The Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education has decided to retain Interim Superintendent Dirk Phillips for an additional year, citing continuity, leadership performance, and fiscal considerations. In […]

In which Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo grieves the evident impending loss of the borough’s storied “Kissing Tree,” the second-tallest copper beech in Bergen County. This proud beauty was recently recognized as an important Heritage Tree, and could be older than the United States. Richard Frant tree photo; Arroyo photo: John Snyder/file
Pascack Press

Cameras for Brookside, a downtown zoning tweak, and a 9-1-1 services deal headline Tuesday’s agenda

December 16, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—The mayor and council meet Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Municipal Complex, 101 Washington Ave., with a 7:30 p.m. closed session and an 8 p.m. public session, per the posted agenda. From our reading of […]

In which Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo grieves the evident impending loss of the borough’s storied “Kissing Tree,” the second-tallest copper beech in Bergen County. This proud beauty was recently recognized as an important Heritage Tree, and could be older than the United States. Richard Frant tree photo; Arroyo photo: John Snyder/file
Community Voices

‘Funeral for a Friend: The Kissing Tree’s Final Kiss’

December 13, 2025 Ray Arroyo

WESTWOOD—When I attended college in the mid-1970s, Environmental Studies 101 was known as a “gut” course — soft on science and an easy “A.” It was condescendingly called “Trees Are […]

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