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September 30, 2025
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Year: 2025

"Park Ridge PD welcomes new leadership and celebrates milestones: Chief Joseph Rampolla was sworn in Tuesday, marking the start of his tenure. Thomas Arcaro Jr. also joined the force and begins academy training next week. Officer Carlos Alicea graduated from the Bergen County Police Academy, earning the Third Place Top Gun Award for marksmanship. Via PRPD on Facebook.
Park Ridge

Schepisi, Auth lend voices to swearing-in of Cozzi, Fenwick; Rampolla at helm at police department

January 19, 2025 Michael Olohan

PARK RIDGE—A new police chief, new police officer, two returning councilmen, and a slew of promotions and appointments in the fire department, along with dozens of mayoral appointments to boards […]

Westwood’s celebrated Kissing Tree” at Veterans Park, an enormous European Copper Beech that snagged Champion & Heritage Tree status from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Photos via Richard Frant, FrantVisuals.
Pascack Press

Storied ‘Kissing Tree’ recognized; Zambrano honored

January 19, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—There flourishes a tree in Veterans Park that has seen more kisses than your average mistletoe, and it just notched a major accolade. Known affectionately as “The Kissing Tree,” this […]

WVAC Volunteer of the Year Nicole Heid is recognized at the corp’s annual installation dinner Jan. 13.One of many happy scenes Jan. 13, when the WVAC feted its roster of selfless volunteers at its annual installation dinner, at Biago’s Ristorante in Paramus. Photo via Facebook.
Pascack Press

WVAC goes strong, saves lives, stands tall for 2024

January 19, 2025 Pascack Press

WESTWOOD—The Westwood Volunteer Ambulance Corps (WVAC) has released its 2024 Annual Report, highlighting its volunteer-based emergency medical services and underscoring the importance of recruiting new members to sustain its vital […]

Rendering of the overhauled George G. White Middle School, via Hillsdale Public Schools website.
Hillsdale

District shares next steps on overhauling George White school

January 19, 2025 Staff

HILLSDALE—The Hillsdale Board of Education shared significant updates on the progress of the George G. White Middle School renovation project in a Jan. 14 letter to district families, highlighting achievements […]

Hillsdale Environmental Commission
Hillsdale

Volunteers rise to the occasion with Styrofoam drive

January 19, 2025 Staff

HILLSDALE—The white stuff accumulated in rising drifts on Saturday, Jan. 11. Snow? No, Styrofoam.  In a scant two hours that day, more than 80 cars showed up downtown to deliver […]

Jimmy Carter, via National Park Service
Park Ridge

Honoring Carter; a borough looks to the future

January 19, 2025 Pascack Press

PARK RIDGE—Mayor Keith Misciagna began the new year with heartfelt reflections on recent milestones and losses within the community and beyond. The mayor paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, […]

Hillsdale Police Department
Hillsdale

Eyes on a disciplinary hearing for HPD chief Smith 

January 17, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—A disciplinary hearing will likely be held soon for police chief Sean Smith, following council’s unanimous hiring, Jan. 14, of a retired Superior Court judge to serve as the hearing […]

Returning Democratic councilwoman Jennifer Margolis, and first-time Republican councilman Christopher Bonanno, Woodcliff Lake, January 2025.
Pascack Press

Margolis returns, Bonanno joins; Rendo talks land use

January 17, 2025 Michael Olohan

WOODCLIFF LAKE—One Democratic incumbent and a Republican newcomer were sworn in on Jan. 6 to new three-year terms on the Borough Council during the reorganization meeting before approximately three dozen […]

The raiding party with barrels seized at the V.M. road house on Old Hook Road on Jan. 17, 1925. Approximately 400 gallons of liquor were poured out on Center Avenue. Left to right: P.O. Butterfield, Marshal Allison, Police Commissioner Wyks, P.O. Bartz, Special Officer Frontera, Judge Ruckner, and Mayor Brickell. The building in the background is the Westwood Firehouse that stood on Center near Jefferson Avenue, about where the modern firehouse stands.
Back in Time

Bootlegger’s roost in a Westwood henhouse

January 17, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—A century ago, a drunken brawl in downtown Westwood led officials to an illicit distillery disguised beneath a chicken coop. We go back to the days of Prohibition for this […]

Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert T. Lougy.
Alpine

Towns take a second swing at halting state’s affordables law

January 16, 2025 Michael Olohan

MONTVALE—A second effort to halt the state’s new affordable housing law will be decided in Mercer County Superior Court on Jan. 23, after the 27 towns challenging it have found […]

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