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September 30, 2025
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Participants at the League of Women Voters of Bergen County’s Constitution Day program in Westwood, Sept. 17, 2025. The event drew a full house for a panel discussion on the state of American democracy. John Snyder photo.
Community Voices

League forum marks Constitution Day with urgent call to defend democracy

September 18, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — Billed as a Constitution Day celebration, the League of Women Voters of Northern Valley’s Sept. 17 forum in Westwood quickly became a pointed call to defend democracy. League president […]

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Northern Valley Press

Gottheimer adds voice to those condemning burning of Israeli flag outside Tenafly synagogue

September 17, 2025 Northern Valley Press

TENAFLY — U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) on Wednesday denounced the burning of an Israeli flag outside Temple Sinai of Bergen County, calling it “vile, unacceptable, and has no place […]

Community Voices

Officials consider next steps on deer management

September 17, 2025 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—Local mayors and other public officials turned their attention to a topic close to home: the Pascack Valley’s growing white-tailed deer population — and what to do about it. […]

Madison Choo, a junior at Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, will be featured as oboe soloist with the Hanover Wind Symphony at its free autumn concert, Dance On, on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Whippany.
Demarest

Demarest’s Madison Choo to shine as oboe soloist with Hanover Wind Symphony

September 14, 2025 Staff

DEMAREST — Music and movement will take center stage this fall when the Hanover Wind Symphony (HWS) presents its free autumn concert, Dance On, a program built around the rhythms and traditions of […]

Partial view of the long-serving temporary base of operations for the Township of Washington Department of Public Works, 2025. John Snyder photo.
Pascack Press

‘Thank God, we’re finally getting it done’ on DPW HQ

September 13, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—After years of delay, a unanimous Township Council has approved a $4.9 million contract to build a new Department of Public Works facility on the footprint of the […]

Affordable housing illustration.
Emerson

Borough cheers ruling on offsite housing

September 13, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—A state appellate court has handed Emerson a decisive win in its fight with downtown redeveloper Emerson Redevelopers Urban Renewal (ERUR), rejecting an effort to force the borough to rezone […]

Affordable housing
Hillsdale

Montvale, Park Ridge at risk of losing immunity from ‘builder’s remedy’ lawsuits

September 13, 2025 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) is challenging the Fourth Round affordable-housing plans filed by Montvale and Park Ridge, accusing both towns of using “procedural games and bad-faith arguments” to […]

Look for the rooster on top of the tower. As though anybody could miss it! This was the view outside Ye Old Octagon House on West Grand Avenue in Montvale in the late 1930s. At the time, it was a fried chicken restaurant.
Pascack Press

A 75¢ chicken dinner in Montvale

September 13, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

Montvale’s iconic Octagon House, on West Grand Avenue, is a stately relic of a bygone age in the borough. Three mayors have called this wonderful eight-sided structure, built in the […]

Members of American Legion Post 153 raise the American flag as Boy Scouts salute during Park Ridge’s Sept. 11 Memorial Service at Veterans’ Park. John Snyder/Pascack Press
Park Ridge

Photos: Candlelight and remembrance in Park Ridge, 24 years after 9/11

September 12, 2025 John Snyder

PARK RIDGE — The borough gathered at Veterans’ Park on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 11, for a candlelight ceremony of remembrance led by American Legion Post 153, marking the 24th […]

Rep. Josh Gottheimer meets scouts from BSA Troop 80 in Park Ridge in 2021 as the borough marked 20 years since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which claimed seven residents along with thousands of others. File photo
Community Voices

Gottheimer selected as co-chair of bipartisan review of 9/11 Commission report

September 11, 2025 Pascack Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, in remembrance of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Elise Stefanik (NY-21)were appointed to be the co-chairs of the bipartisan […]

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