Hillsdale
Rockers put the ‘win’ in whirlwind
IT’S A PASCACK VALLEY success story we can all cheer. The Rockers dance team certainly have a lot to celebrate as they delivered a stunning season-ending competition on Feb. 4. […]
Articles by John Snyder
Community Voices
Robot climbs, shoots, scores! Meet Pi-oneers Team 1676’s mighty ‘Velocitraptor’
MONTVALE—Saying, “We killed at the competition,” Team 1676 Pascack Pi-oneers coach Lisa Ruggieri delivered great news from the inaugural event of the competition season at Mt. Olive High School March […]
Community Voices
Reading springs to life at Character Con
MONTVALE—Memorial Elementary School second-grade reading teacher Ariane Giannone was sure the project would resonate with the grade’s approximately 100 students and their families. Not to say there weren’t butterflies. “It […]
Community Voices
The safe place Aidan built: Wellness Center at St. Joe’s opens in blessing
MONTVALE—Aidan Huvane, Eagle Scout candidate with Troop 109 in Hillsdale, thanks all who gave their winning best toward his Eagle Scout project: establishing a wellness center at his high school, […]
Pascack Press
Twists, turns, and township: Independents have edge, seek 10% budget cuts
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—A new, Independent Township of Washington Council majority appears to hold the cards on the dais, leaving the two Republican members crying foul. At the town’s annual reorganization […]
Pascack Press
Westwood Avenue blocked for sewer line work
WESTWOOD—Westwood Avenue near Center Avenue was closed in both directions the morning of Monday, Jan. 8 to accommodate what a police spokesperson said was emergency sewer line work for an […]
Community Voices
Love for Fieldstone’s Mrs. DeGraw
MONTVALE—Superintendent of Schools Darren A. Petersen reports that beloved Fieldstone Middle School secretary Helen DeGraw is set to retire on Dec. 31 “after an extraordinary 50 years of dedicated service […]
Park Ridge
Cheers to PRPD rookie Julia Manning
PARK RIDGE—Her career move was inevitable and wonderful. Naturally, residents and others, when the Park Ridge Police Department invited congratulations for its newest officer—also its first female officer, and a […]
Community Voices
Ruth Maceluch, who blazed a trail, gets her own day
EMERSON—Happy birthday and congratulations to Ruth Maceluch, who turned 102 on Nov. 29 and who, on Dec. 5, was recognized with a day in her honor. Mayor Danielle DiPaola posted […]
Pascack Press
John Calamari signs as chief of police, effective Jan. 1, 2024
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Police Captain John Calamari, sworn in to his current role Jan. 20, 2020, has been tapped to advance to chief, replacing fellow WTPD veteran Richard Skinner, who is […]