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October 14, 2025
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Emerson BOE race 2025
Emerson

Contested Emerson school board race spotlights parents’ role, fiscal priorities

October 13, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—Three candidates, including incumbent Amy Mara, are seeking two open seats on the Emerson Board of Education in the Nov. 4 election. Challengers Emily M. Fernandez-Justo and Shannon Lucas round out the field. Trustee Keith Smith is […]

Emerson Council candidates 2025
Emerson

Voters to decide direction of Emerson’s progress Nov. 4

October 12, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—Two Republican incumbents and two Democratic challengers are vying for two open Borough Council seats in Emerson on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4. Six of eight Pascack Valley towns feature […]

Emerson Police
Emerson

Season of scams, scuffles, and sobriety stops

October 12, 2025 Staff

EMERSON—From Facebook Marketplace fraud to a midnight DWI at the municipal complex, Emerson police have kept busy this summer. Officers handled cases involving fake insurance cards, roadside deceptions, fights in […]

Affordable housing illustration.
Emerson

Ghassali vows appeal as judge boots suits

October 11, 2025 Staff

TRENTON—A Superior Court judge has rejected a challenge from a group of 36 New Jersey municipalities led by Montvale that sought to block the state’s sweeping new affordable-housing law, which […]

Lead trainer Wes Wagner of the Bergen County Board of Elections (center) and Chairman of the Bergen County Board of Elections Richard L. Miller on Sept. 30 orient dozens of Westwood Regional High School students to facilitating the general election, which is Tuesday, Nov. 4. The work is nonpartisan and vital. John Snyder photo.
Emerson

Poll workers in training: Record number of teens step up to run the vote; county partners in civics program

October 3, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—More Pascack Valley-area high school students than ever will be working as poll workers on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Bergen County, said the Board of Elections […]

Township Clerk Sue Witkowski talks with Bergen County elections officials Debra Francica and Wes Wagner following their Sept. 24 presentation to residents on the upcoming Nov. 4 General Election, which includes the statewide race for governor. Mike Olohan photo.
Emerson

Voting starts in Pascack Valley; forum packed

September 28, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Voting in New Jersey’s Nov. 4 General Election is underway in Pascack Valley. Mail-in ballots have gone out — and are already coming back — while in-person early […]

O'Neil Ellis–Borough Hall composite
Emerson

Cheering new councilman O’Neil Ellis, borough booster

September 28, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—The Borough Council voted Sept. 16 to appoint Republican O’Neil A. Ellis to fill the unexpired term of former Councilwoman Jill McGuire, who resigned in August. The term runs through […]

Participants at the League of Women Voters of Bergen County’s Constitution Day program in Westwood, Sept. 17, 2025. The event drew a full house for a panel discussion on the state of American democracy. John Snyder photo.
Community Voices

League forum marks Constitution Day with urgent call to defend democracy

September 18, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — Billed as a Constitution Day celebration, the League of Women Voters of Northern Valley’s Sept. 17 forum in Westwood quickly became a pointed call to defend democracy. League president […]

Community Voices

Officials consider next steps on deer management

September 17, 2025 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—Local mayors and other public officials turned their attention to a topic close to home: the Pascack Valley’s growing white-tailed deer population — and what to do about it. […]

Affordable housing illustration.
Emerson

Borough cheers ruling on offsite housing

September 13, 2025 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—A state appellate court has handed Emerson a decisive win in its fight with downtown redeveloper Emerson Redevelopers Urban Renewal (ERUR), rejecting an effort to force the borough to rezone […]

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