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September 30, 2025
HomeAuthorsKristin Beuscher

Articles by Kristin Beuscher

Front to back, left to right: Jordan Pieszchata, Liv Carpenter, Emilia Rettew, Alexa Ganz (exec), Jacqueline Sohl, Cali Dembowski, Izzy Witkowski, Dana Miller, Alexandra Siller, Ethan Platt, Eric Welter, Jesse Merker, Brian Slasinski, Parker Bellaff, Brianna Deutsch, Isabella Manessis (president), Margo Perlman (exec), Ethan Rettew, Patrick Sullivan, Nick Desantis-Amin, Ryan Austein, Sean Roberts, Kyle Diaz, Gabe Guzman, Ciara Leen, Alison Garcia, Ella Gokhale, Kristina Wegner, Charlotte Moy (exec), Jeslyn Abraham (exec), Avery Mendez, Ava Manessis, Christina Ely, Alex Gaskin, Kate Barrett, Anna DeBlock, Daniella Petrillo, and Maya Newell. Michela Piccoline photo.
Hillsdale

Toys swept full circle

January 11, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

HILLSDALE—This holiday season, the Pascack Valley High School (PVHS) Environmental Club gave used toys a vital new purpose through its annual partnership with Second Chance Toys, a nonprofit organization dedicated […]

Ice house
Back in Time

Cool! Ice houses and ice harvesting in the Pascack Valley

January 2, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY—This is excerpted from an article that originally appeared in the Pascack Historical Society’s quarterly publication, Relics. Before the days of refrigeration, quite a bit of planning and hard […]

Ida and Jacob Steinman, Westwood’s first Jewish residents.
Back in Time

The Steinmans: Pioneers of faith and community

December 30, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—The first Jewish family to settle in Westwood was the Steinmans, who arrived in the borough at the turn of the 20th century. Jacob (Ephraim Yaacov) Steinman and his wife, […]

Hillsdale traffic mishap amid holiday shopping, south on Broadway from the area of Park Street, early 1960s…
Back in Time

Hazards of the holiday rush: 1963

December 8, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY—The holiday rush is on—drive safely, folks! These photographs snapped in downtown Hillsdale show a three-car fender-bender from an early 1960s Christmas season. In our featured image, the photographer […]

Westwood Avenue meets Broadway in this Westwood snap from December 1938. Tenants have come and gone but the building housing them remains essentially unchanged—storefront alterations notwithstanding.
Back in Time

December Dawns Downtown, 1938

November 29, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—More than eight decades after our featured photo was snapped in downtown Westwood, this section has hardly changed at all. Showing the point where Westwood Avenue meets Broadway, this view […]

Dominick Brescia of Emerson in his U.S. Army uniform. He served 1918–1919, during World War I. When Brescia later grew this substantial squash, in 1964, the Westwood News sent a photographer to memorialize the achievement.
Back in Time

Raises hefty harvest in Emerson

November 14, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

EMERSON—In our featured photo, dated to autumn, 1964, Dominick Brescia measures the enormous squash he grew in his garden in Emerson. This amazing specimen, which he grew from seeds sent […]

Park Ridge's post office on Hawthorne Avenue in the early 1900s.
Back in Time

Burglars blow the safe, make off with $2 in pennies. (Try getting back to sleep after that)

November 7, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—This week we go back 120 years to the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 13, 1904. The streets were dark, and the people of Park Ridge were asleep in their […]

.The old schoolhouse after a fire in November 1908.
Back in Time

A second life for the schoolhouse under the cliffs

November 5, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS—In October’s edition of Northern Valley Press, readers of this column learned about the Undercliff School, a little schoolhouse constructed on the Palisades in the 19th century for the […]

The perils of political prognostication. Spectators on Westwood Avenue in 1929 help give former Mayor Harry Goodwin, wheeling reporter Don Dutcher, a dose of good-natured comeuppance.
Back in Time

A Wacky Wager in Westwood

November 3, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—When former Mayor Harry Goodwin came up on the wrong side of an election wager in 1929, he had to give his friend a ride down Westwood Avenue in a […]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Emerson

Pascack Voices: Angelina Capalbo on resilience, community, and advocacy

November 1, 2024 Kristin Beuscher

Editor’s note: Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an international health campaign held every October,  promotes screening and prevention of the disease, which affects 2.3 million women worldwide. Wrapped in pink, the […]

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