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August 29, 2026
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Hillsdale school board to consider superintendent contract extension, George White gym reopening

August 24, 2026 Staff

HILLSDALE, N.J.—The Hillsdale Board of Education is expected to consider a new five-year employment agreement with Superintendent Robert V. Lombardy Jr. when it meets Monday, Aug. 24. Under the resolution, […]

Raising funds for the Dennis Burke Foundation on Aug. 6. Christine Green photos.
Hillsdale

Kids stir lemonade stand into ALS fundraiser

August 24, 2026 Pascack Press

WESTWOOD, N.J.—An enterprising group of Westwood children spent a summer afternoon turning a neighborhood lemonade and snack stand into a fundraiser for families affected by ALS. ALS, or amyotrophic lateral […]

How the Hillsdale railroad station would have looked at the time of the 1876 workers’ strike, although this photograph likely dates to the 1880s. This week, 150 years ago, railroad workers went on strike after months of not receiving their pay. They pulled the trains into the Hillsdale station and then disabled them, halting travel on the Pascack Valley line for five days. Colorized.
Back in Time

Stiffed on wages, railroad men stopped the trains

August 24, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY AREA, N.J.—By August 1876, the railroad workers on the Pascack Valley line were fed up. For months, they had gone without pay. Now it was time to send […]

Flooding on Broadway on the Westwood side of the Hillsdale line, May 2022.
Emerson

On floods, ‘the need is clear and now’

August 24, 2026 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY AREA, N.J.—Hillsdale Mayor Michael Sheinfield told residents Aug. 11 that a proposed $8.9 million flood mitigation and brook improvement project — aimed at reducing flooding and improving water […]

Sports equipment
Community Voices

Engineer says field reno ‘close to end’

August 15, 2026 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE, N.J.—Slightly more than $6 million in renovations at Memorial Field are nearing completion, with multi-use artificial turf likely to be installed during the week of Aug. 17, the borough […]

Mayor Michael Sheinfield stands outside the new Hillsdale Community Center at 137 Patterson St. in a four-minute video tour highlighting the recently opened public space and its amenities.
Hillsdale

Piermont PILOT revenue adds $735K to coffers: Eyes on 2027 audit, affordables mix

August 15, 2026 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE, N.J.—The borough administrator told the council Aug. 11 to expect $735,000 in revenue this year from a payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement with The Piermont, a new […]

The Pascack Valley votes!
Community Voices

Regional, local BOE seats in two PV towns contested Nov. 3

August 13, 2026 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—While most upcoming Pascack Valley school board elections are uncontested, seats representing Hillsdale on the Pascack Valley regional high school board and on Park Ridge’s local Board of Education […]

Allison “Allie” Polyniak advances the ball for Pascack Valley during her senior season. Polyniak was named to the United Soccer Coaches 2025–26 High School Scholar All-America Team. Courtesy photo.
Hillsdale

PV’s Polyniak earns national scholar-athlete honor

August 10, 2026 Staff

HILLSDALE, N.J. — Pascack Valley High School graduate Allison “Allie” Polyniak has been named to the United Soccer Coaches 2025–26 High School Scholar All-America Team, recognizing her achievements in the […]

John “Cal” Calvin Gardenier operated his livery stable in Hillsdale from the 1880s through the 1910s. Well placed to serve those coming and going at the Hillsdale station, it stood on Park Avenue near the railroad tracks, now the location of the Bank of America. The building was lost in a fire in 1930. Colorized.
Back in Time

Horses for Hire in Old Hillsdale

August 10, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

In 1909, the Bergen County Standard described Calvin Gardenier’s livery stable as “one of the largest and most successful business enterprises in Hillsdale.” In 2026, the majority of people have […]

Sean Dargan, left, a financial planner affiliated with Northwestern Mutual in Paramus, listens as Steven Hopper, president of Park Ridge-based Pratt Plumbing Heating & Air Inc., holds up company literature during the Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce’s August meeting at the Westwood Public Library. Hopper noted that Pratt will mark its 100th anniversary in 2027. John Snyder photo.
Community Voices

Pascack Valley chamber gets down to business with AI

August 7, 2026 John Snyder

WESTWOOD, N.J.—A dentist preparing to open his first Montvale practice sat alongside bankers, financial planners, nonprofit leaders, technology specialists, a plumber approaching his company’s 100th anniversary, a lawyer, a real […]

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