PASCACK VALLEY—This week 130 years ago, the Pascack Valley saw the formation of its third borough. But unlike the two preceding it—Westwood and Park Ridge—hardly anyone knows the name Eastwood. […]
PASCACK VALLEY—This week we go back to a past Memorial Day, when the people of Westwood gathered, just as we will on Monday, May 27 in solemn remembrance of those […]
PASCACK VALLEY—It is confidently predicted this county will be the home of approximately one million people. That’s what Mr. Walter Phillip Shatts, field secretary of the Regional Plan Association of […]
PARK RIDGE—Last week we discussed the phenomenon of Borough Fever, which saw the Township of Washington break apart into the Pascack Valley’s eight municipalities between 1894 and 1906. Westwood had […]
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Township once was a hotspot of flower growing. As the weather warms and our attention returns to gardening, here is the story of two long-gone local industries: Beuerlein’s […]
PASCACK VALLEY—We go back 120 years, to the night of April 26, 1894. Burglars were busy in the Pascack Valley. While the local citizens slept, thieves made their way up […]
WESTWOOD—Refrigerators are among those things we don’t think much about until the power goes out. We have all put our lightning reflexes to the test during an outage, opening and […]
HILLSDALE—“Two 300-gallon stills, hundreds of barrels and bottles, and all the paraphernalia necessary to conduct a huge distillery, were uncovered last Friday in a raid on the former Overbrook Country […]
TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Off the beaten path from the Pascack Valley railroad line, the Township of Washington had stayed rural well into the 20th century. In the 1920s, the population was […]
PASCACK VALLEY—In the featured photograph, taken in the early 1900s, two early automobiles kick up dust in a race on Broadway in Park Ridge. The drivers are heading in the […]
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