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January 11, 2026
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Month: December 2025

Backed by seasonally attired Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo and land use liaison Lauren Letizia, fifth-graders from Berkeley and Brookside Elementary schools stood out at the Dec. 16 meeting of the governing body. They are Lainey Joy, Seraphina, Isabella, Victoria, Hayden, Siena, Toby, and Rebecca. John Snyder photo.
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Calling For Bike Racks: Westwood fifth-grade scouts go for Bronze Award on strength of civic proposal

December 25, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—Eight Westwood fifth graders came to Borough Hall on Dec. 16 with a simple, civic-minded request: more bike racks downtown, in the Central Business District The girls—Lainey Joy, Seraphina, Isabella, […]

An NJ TRANSIT Pascack Valley Line train at Montvale Station. (File photo)
Montvale

Train strikes car near Montvale Station; no injuries reported

December 23, 2025 Pascack Press

MONTVALE — NJ Transit reported delays during the Tuesday evening rush after a Pascack Valley Line train struck a car downtown, the agency said. At about 2:44 p.m., Pascack Valley Line […]

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 […]

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