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Carefree frolics at a summertime favorite
HILLSDALE—This week we go back to the 1960s with vintage snapshots of Stonybrook Swim Club in Hillsdale. Back then, it was a private swim club complete with cabanas and a […]
Articles by Kristin Beuscher
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A serene scene on Westwood Avenue
WESTWOOD—Ah, summer in Westwood. Looking at the image above, one can almost hear the birds chirping, the rustling of leaves in the trees, the friendly ding, ding! of the cyclist […]
Park Ridge
Council OK’s $3.8M water filtration bond intro; hearing Aug. 13
PARK RIDGE—The Borough Council on July 9 approved the introduction of a $3.8 million bond ordinance to fund a water treatment system to remove so-called forever chemicals from one of […]
Pascack Press
School calendar change, A/C upgrades, questions on demographics, new sidewalk, more in WWRSD BOE session
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Westwood Regional Schools superintendent Jill Mortimer reached out to families on July 17 with an update from the July 11 school board meeting. She touched on the school […]
Park Ridge
‘Mothers of Invention’ at Pascack Historical Society museum July 28
PARK RIDGE—Join the Pascack Historical Society on Sunday, July 28, at 2 p.m. for an enlightening presentation by Carol Simon Levin, a professional storyteller and independent historian renowned for bringing […]
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What used to stand there: The Metz-Archibald House
RIVER VALE—Just west of Four Corners downtown, on the north side of Westwood Avenue, there’s a strip mall that most locals have visited. A Walgreens anchors a series of storefronts: […]
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Eighty years ago, the women behind the scenes
MONTVALE—It was the summer of 1944 when the Ladies Auxiliary of the Montvale Fire Department posed for this photo in the municipal park at Kinderkamack Road and Grand Avenue. The […]
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‘Fourth of July in the old days’’
PARK RIDGE—The Pascack Historical Society’s member publication, “Relics,” has been published continuously since 1955. The early editions are a treasure trove of memories offered by writers who had spent their […]
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Rocky road in Township of Washington
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Before the 1930s, road maps of the Township of Washington looked a lot different. The vast majority of today’s side streets did not yet exist; instead, they were […]
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‘And long may it wave!’
PARK RIDGE—It was in the decade after the U.S. Civil War that the ladies of Park Ridge came together and held something like an old-fashioned sewing bee, except this was […]