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November 19, 2025
HomeAuthorsMichael Olohan

Articles by Michael Olohan

River Vale Township hired Settembrino Architects to design the New Public Safety Complex. Then firm says online, "The surrounding site caters to several neighborhoods on both Rivervale Road and Prospect Avenue, Settembrino Architects has approached the Public Safety Complex to have a more residential feel to fit within the neighborhood’s context."
Pascack Press

$170K for new cameras, door security at safety complex

March 1, 2025 Michael Olohan

RIVER VALE—Township Council on Feb. 24 approved a $170,000 security system to protect and monitor police department operations inside and outside the new public safety complex Administrator Gennaro Rotella told […]

Daniel O’Brien, ex-chief of the Emerson Volunteer Fire Department and current member of the Westwood Volunteer Fire Department, spearheaded the transfer of a pumper truck to Centerville, Tenn., which lost apparatus in Hurricane Helene.
Emerson

Emerson follows hero’s lead, aids a stricken Tenn. town

March 1, 2025 Michael Olohan

BY MICHAEL OLOHAN AND JOHN SNYDEROF PASCACK PRESS EMERSON—With guidance from Daniel O’Brien, a recent Fifth District Hometown Hero, the Borough Council has approved the sale of a nearly 30-year-old […]

The Woodcliff Lake Borough Council on June 17, 2024 unanimously approved a more than $2.7 million construction contract to build a passive park on the former Galaxy Gardens site at the corner of Woodcliff Avenue and Werimus Road. Officials say “a good portion” of park construction, said soon underway at press time, will be reimbursed. WCL rendering.
Pascack Press

Latest delay adds to anticipation on park opening

March 1, 2025 Michael Olohan

WOODCLIFF LAKE—After seven years of waiting and due to 2025’s wintry weather in January and February, the grand opening of the borough’s newest park is delayed again. This winter’s sub-freezing […]

Rendering of the Family Promise of Bergen County’s Emerson center, proposed at  436 Old Hook Road.
Pascack Press

Family Promise weighs options after site denial

March 1, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON, N.J.—Family Promise of Bergen County has time to appeal the Borough of Emerson’s decision to reject its proposal to open The Family Promise Center, which aimed to provide temporary […]

Affordable housing
Emerson

Legislative pressure, downward, on obligations

February 22, 2025 Michael Olohan

TRENTON—A new state Senate bill could significantly reduce the number of affordable housing units towns are required to build, setting off a fresh debate over housing obligations in New Jersey. […]

Township of Washington
Pascack Press

Under a tent no more: Council OKs $3M bond on DPW

February 22, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Nearly four years after the township’s DPW facility, at the municipal center complex, was demolished due to soil contamination, the Township Council has approved a $3 million bond […]

Evidently smaller build render as posted by Borough of Hillsdale
Hillsdale

‘Ideal use’ vs. parish pain

February 22, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—The Borough Council on Feb. 11 approved a four-story self-storage facility in the Patterson Street Redevelopment Zone over vocal opposition from parishioners of St. John the Baptist Church, who raised […]

hillsdaleamb.org
Hillsdale

Hybrid EMT response improves

February 22, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—The chief of Hillsdale’s Volunteer Ambulance Service, which includes a paid weekday EMT staff from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. said that the service answered more than 500 calls for […]

Hillsdale Police Department
Hillsdale

Police chief’s disciplinary hearing set for March 13, 14; public may observe

February 22, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—Local officials tell Pascack Press that a disciplinary hearing for Police Chief Sean Smith has been scheduled for March 13 and 14 at Borough Hall. The proceedings—held before retired Superior […]

New Hillsdale Public Schools trustee Kathleen Puerta joins, from left to right, Michael Kenduck, Salvatore Sileo, Justin Saxon, and Kevin Donatello in looking over George White school overhaul plans on Feb. 10. Photo: Mike Olohan.
Hillsdale

Puerta picked to fill Jennings’ seat; term thru Dec. 31

February 16, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—The Hillsdale Board of Education in a unanimous vote on Feb. 10 tapped Kathleen Puerta to fill the unexpired term of former council veep Christina Jennings, whose term expires on […]

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