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December 12, 2025
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Memorial Park field work ongoing; borough promoting local business

December 9, 2025 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE—Borough Administrator Michael Ghassali says the DPW’s advance work to clear and prepare the fields at Memorial Park for upgrades tied to the $5.8 million field construction project likely saved […]

Affordable housing illustration.
Hillsdale

Hillsdale backs Community Development projects; opposes affordable-housing zoning bill

December 9, 2025 John Snyder

The Hillsdale Borough Council moved quickly through its Dec. 2 agenda, unanimously approving a slate of resolutions that included returning unused escrow funds, confirming support for Community Development Block Grant […]

Teamwork! ShopRite fundraising coordinator Jack Callaghan, Jeff Roem and Maura Roem of St. Andrew’s, store manager Sasha Vidakovic, and store assistant manager Brian Longfield. Courtesy photo.
Community Voices

ShopRite customers step up, dig deep, for food drive

December 4, 2025 Staff

PASCACK VALLEY—Thanks to the generosity of local shoppers, more than $800 worth of holiday meal items were donated to the St. Andrew’s Church Food Pantry in Westwood just in time […]

The magnificent Riley estate, Brookside Pines, stood across from the church site and hosted lawn parties that raised money for the building fund. In 1955, the parish built a school behind the Victorian house. After serving as a preschool and convent, the home was demolished, in 2002.
Back in Time

Klansmen couldn’t stop Hillsdale’s Catholics from building their church

December 4, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

HILLSDALE—Amid frightening pushback from the Ku Klux Klan, Catholic residents of Hillsdale stood their ground in support of building a church in their town. Through their dedication, St. John the […]

Rosemarie D'Alessandro and her sons, John and Michael, have been working tirelessly to advance the cause of child safety. Courtesy photo.
Community Voices

Justice for Victims Law marks 25 years; inspired by Joan D’Alessandro case

December 3, 2025 John Snyder

HILLSDALE — A landmark New Jersey law championed by Hillsdale resident and victims’ rights advocate Rosemarie D’Alessandro quietly marked its 25th anniversary on Nov. 17, underscoring a legacy of legal […]

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Hillsdale

Court: Dec. 8 hearing likely to decide 20-year lease for DePiero farm property

December 2, 2025 Michael Olohan

MONTVALE—A Superior Court hearing on Dec. 8 before Judge Gregg Padovano will likely determine whether D’Agostino Landscaping of West Nyack was properly awarded a 20-year lease for the former 8.4-acre […]

NJ State House
Alpine

Millions in road, safety funds headed to Pascack and Northern valleys under FY26 municipal aid

November 30, 2025 Staff

TRENTON—Gov. Phil Murphy has announced $150 million in Fiscal Year 2026 Municipal Aid grants, with 537 municipalities statewide receiving funding for road, bridge, safety, and quality-of-life improvements. Every municipality that […]

More than 300 turkeys were collected at the 33rd Annual Helping Hand Food Pantry Turkey Drive, thanks in part to student volunteers who helped unload and sort donations on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. John Snyder photo.
Emerson

Community generosity packs out Helping Hand Food Pantry at 33rd Annual Turkey Drive

November 24, 2025 John Snyder

HILLSDALE —Among a season of cheery and vital food drives in the Pascack Valley, the 33rd Annual Helping Hand Turkey Drive, held Saturday, Nov. 22 at Hillsdale United Methodist Church, was […]

Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill, who won the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial race and has since resigned her congressional seat, has announced her transition team. That team includes Adam Gordon, executive director of the Fair Share Housing Center, who will help guide housing policy. Sherrill photo: NJ Monitor, via Creative Commons. Gordon inset via fairsharehousing.org.
Emerson

Fair Share Housing’s Adam Gordon named to Sherrill-Caldwell transition team

November 21, 2025 John Snyder

TRENTON—Fair Share Housing Center Executive Director Adam Gordon, long a prominent figure in New Jersey’s affordable housing battles, has been appointed to Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill’s transition team. The move places one of the […]

Hillsdale

Post 162 invites letters to deployed troops

November 21, 2025 Pascack Press

HILLSDALE/WOODCLIFF LAKE/OLD TAPPAN—American Legion General Leonard E. Wood Post 162 is calling on residents to help ensure that soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast Guard members serving overseas know their […]

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