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December 12, 2025
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News about Park Ridge, N.J.

Affordable housing illustration.
Montvale

‘Targeted’ Montvale, Park Ridge seek settlements with Fair Share, developers

December 2, 2025 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—With a Dec. 31 deadline looming to resolve challenges from the Fair Share Housing Center — and, in Montvale’s case, several intervening developers — both Montvale and Park Ridge […]

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 […]

Park Ridge officials are amused and mortified in equal measure as their mayor, Donald F. Gelnaw, sports a Glen Rock football sweatshirt at the Dec. 10, 1980 meeting of the governing body. A good sport, Gelnaw was fulfilling the terms of a wager with that borough’s mayor after the state championship tipped Glen Rock’s way, 22-21. Photo: Thomas Moorhead
Back in Time

Two mayors, one wager, and an embarrassing sweatshirt

November 30, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

PARK RIDGE—In this week’s featured photograph, Mayor Donald F. Gelnaw, right, having lost a bet, is forced to wear a Glen Rock High School Panthers sweatshirt at a borough council […]

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 […]

Back in Time

The story of ‘Turkey John’ Blauvelt

November 21, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

As Park Ridge prepares for Thanksgiving, it seems fitting to revisit the life of a man whose nickname still echoes faintly through local history: “Turkey John”  Blauvelt, more properly John […]

Front to back, left to right: Mason Cantamessa, Santino Torres, Leo Waters, Nicholas Powers, Samay Shah, Connor Sharkey, Luke Quiñones, Parker Kent, Tyler Crisafulli, Ronan Eck, David Betancourt Jr., Alexander Mercado; assistant coaches Nishant Shah, Sean Sharkey and Patrick Powers; head coach Greg Waters; and Josh Quiñones and Howie Kent. Sarah Eck photo.
Park Ridge

9U Owls are NEBAS champs again

November 21, 2025 Pascack Press

The Park Ridge Owls 9U boys capped their fall season in dramatic fashion on Saturday, capturing their second NEBAS championship of the year with a gritty, pressure-filled win over Northern […]

From left: Chamber Vice President Anthony Rizzo, Technology Director Ralph Crespo, Citizens of the Year Peter Wells and Jennifer Keilly Errity, Treasurer Ken Baron, and President Tony Pallogudis at Seasons on Oct. 21. GPVCOC photo.
Community Voices

Errity, Wells inspire as Chamber Citizens of the Year

November 16, 2025 Pascack Press

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Nearly 200 community members, business leaders, and officials gathered Oct. 21 at Seasons Catering as the Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 51st Annual Citizens of […]

Wind-Advisory
Emerson

Wind advisory in effect through early Monday; gusts up to 50 mph expected

November 16, 2025 John Snyder

PASCACK VALLEY— Residents across the valley and much of northeast New Jersey are being urged to secure outdoor items and prepare for possible scattered power outages as a Wind Advisory remains in effect […]

Terre Roche of The Roches sits ‘In Conversation’ with PKRG-TV’s Lori Fredrics. Photo credit PKRG-TV.
Community Voices

Hometown harmony: Terre Roche 

November 16, 2025 John Snyder

PARK RIDGE—PKRG-TV is shining a light on a remarkable chapter of local , valley, and national music history with its new special, In Conversation with Terre Roche. The program profiles […]

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