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January 23, 2026
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Bill supporters say they want to increase public safety. Critics say the bill targets low-income e-bike users. (Photo by Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)
Community Voices

Gov. Phil Murphy signs e-bike bill criticized by bike advocates

January 19, 2026 Pascack Press

BY SOPHIE NIETO-MUNOZ | JANUARY 19, 2026 2:12 PM New Jersey will have some of the strictest regulations on electric bikes in the nation under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Monday. […]

Scholarship recipients Hannah Cohen (Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest), left, and Tia Gadson (Teaneck High School) were among the 2025 awardees recognized by the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation. Courtesy photos/Luhrs & Associates.
Demarest

Demarest, Teaneck students lead NNJ Community Foundation awards list

January 19, 2026 Northern Valley Press

HACKENSACK — The Northern New Jersey Community Foundation (NNJCF) announced Jan. 13 that it awarded scholarships in 2025 to graduates of Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest and Teaneck […]

TENAFLY - winter scene at station, 1920s
Back in Time

Before the suburbs: Tenafly’s railroad moment

January 12, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

TENAFLY—It’s a 1930s winter in this scene that looks at the Tenafly railroad station. Just look at those old cars! Today the Tenafly station stands as a historical gem in […]

Cantor Nitza Shamah on roots, music, and curiosity
Community Voices

Cantor Nitza Shamah on roots, music, and curiosity

January 12, 2026 Hillary Viders

NORTHERN VALLEY—Cantor Nitza Shamah has served Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly since receiving her cantorial ordination from Hebrew Union College’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music in 1991. […]

Directed by Tenafly’s Dottie Fischer, “Seascape” mixes comedy, drama and absurdity as retired couple Nancy (Leslie Darcy of Oakland) and Charlie (Owen Sheridan of Leonia) meet human-sized lizards Sarah (Katie Maul of Fair Lawn) and Leslie (Ian Murphy of Dumont) emerging from the sea. Richard Frant cast photo.
Hillsdale

A ‘Seascape’ for January: BCP stages Albee’s Pulitzer winner Jan. 10–18; benefits Hillsdale’s Joan’s Joy

January 10, 2026 Pascack Press

ORADELL—Escape the cold and head to the sunny sand as Bergen County Players (BCP) raises the curtain on Seascape, which earned playwright Edward Albee his second Pulitzer Prize, in 1975. […]

Affordable housing
Montvale

In Trenton, Ghassali warns on housing

January 8, 2026 John Snyder

MONTVALE—Mayor Michael Ghassali said he and Councilmen Doug Arendacs and Dieter Koelling traveled to Trenton on Wednesday, Jan. 7, and testified in federal court in support of a request to […]

The Campbell wampum mill—by then already a relic—on Jan. 1, 1901, 125 years ago this week. The mill, now long gone, was on the Pascack Brook near the bottom of Wampum Road.
Back in Time

Winter at the old wampum mill

December 27, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—When the old Campbell wampum mill was photographed 125 years ago, on Jan. 1, 1901, it was already a relic of days gone by in the Pascack Valley. The […]

Community Voices

Last 2025 Revolutionary War Roundtable set for Wednesday, Dec. 10

December 9, 2025 Pascack Press

HACKENSACK — The Bergen250 initiative continues its fall series of Revolutionary War Roundtable presentations with a lecture on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. Historian Robb Haberman will present “Surviving […]

Zinke's exterior
Back in Time

Norwood corner went from stagecoach stop to ‘Shore Dinners’

December 4, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

“There are two good places to eat—home and here.” That was the motto of Zinke’s Restaurant on Tappan Road in Norwood. Benjamin and Anna Zinke purchased the old Colonial home […]

Intashan Chowdhury
Community Voices

Intashan Chowdhury on helping government innovate

December 4, 2025 Hillary Viders

NORTHERN VALLEY—At 22, Intashan Chowdhury, MPA, became the youngest municipal administrator in New Jersey — and the first Bengali-American to hold the role in the United States. Now business administrator […]

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