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January 22, 2026
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News about Park Ridge, N.J.

David Neuman, 75, of Monsey, Park Ridge, N.J. Police Department.
Park Ridge

Monsey man charged with criminal sexual contact after incident at spa

January 20, 2026 Pascack Press

PARK RIDGE—The Police Department said a 75-year-old Monsey, N.Y., man was arrested Sunday, Jan. 18, after he allegedly made inappropriate sexual contact with a worker at a spa on Kinderkamack […]

Hillsdale’s Episcopal Church, Hillsdale Avenue and Trinity Place, at the turn of the 20th century. In January 1896, it was broken into and vandalized.
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A burglary spree at Pascack, 130 years ago this week

January 16, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY—“The inhabitants of Park Ridge and Woodcliff are becoming alarmed at the numerous burglaries that have been perpetuated in the two villages within the last two weeks,” the New […]

Affordable Housing Park Ridge
Park Ridge

Pact on affordables advances; zoning ordinances eyed

January 16, 2026 Michael Olohan

PARK RIDGE—Local officials say the borough is moving ahead with plans to comply with a Fourth Round mediated affordable housing settlement and meet its state-mandated deadlines for compliance by a […]

Park Ridge, N.J. Mayor Keith Misciagna and 2026 Council President John Cozzi. Courtesy photos.
Park Ridge

Council focuses on a winning 2026; Cozzi at helm

January 15, 2026 Michael Olohan

PARK RIDGE—Bruce Goldsmith and Gregory Hoffman were sworn for new three-year terms before a packed council chambers at town hall at the Jan. 6 annual Borough Council reorganization meeting. Legislative […]

You might soon be able to visit perhaps the oldest home still standing in town, at 12 Pascack Road. The borough hopes to purchase the property shortly so that we and future generations can experience what a homestead was like here nearly 300 years ago.
Park Ridge

Park Ridge wins $232K county open space grant tied to Wortendyke House preservation; sine die, reorg meetings Jan. 6

January 3, 2026 John Snyder

PARK RIDGE — The borough has received a $232,000 grant through the Bergen County Open Space, Recreation, Floodplain Protection, Farmland & Historic Preservation Trust Fund to support the acquisition and preservation of the Frederick Wortendyke Jr. […]

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 […]

Pascack Press staff writer Michael Olohan / staff photo
Emerson

Reporter’s Notebook: Hot stories to watch for in 2026

December 27, 2025 Michael Olohan

Welcome to my year-end wrap-up and 2026 preview — a chance to look back at the municipal matters (and occasional madness!) that filled our pages in 2025 and flag the […]

Park Ridge

$3.45M EPA grant aids more water-well cleanup work

December 21, 2025 Michael Olohan

PARK RIDGE—The Borough Council on Dec. 9 unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing $4,025,000 in bond funding for water treatment systems at municipal wells 16 and 19, part of an effort […]

U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer with the Fifth District’s latest “Hometown Heroes” honorees at the district’s Hometown Heroes Ceremony, held Monday, Dec. 15 at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee — among them Westwood student leader Jordan Schwartz, Woodcliff Lake resident Jennifer Errity, and Montvale honorees Valerie Kimel and Chief Geoffrey Gibbons. Via Haradan Bottomley of Joshh Gottheimer’s office.
Emerson

Look to Our Helpers: Pascack Valley well represented in latest Fifth District Hometown Heroes awards

December 21, 2025 John Snyder

FORT LEE—U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer honored 20 Fifth District residents as Hometown Heroes during a ceremony held Monday, Dec. 15, at the Barrymore Film Center, recognizing “life-saving first responders, veterans, […]

Grey’s Furniture Store on Park Avenue as it looked before 1906.
Back in Time

Region’s first  synagogue was founded in Park Ridge

December 13, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

The first Jewish house of worship in the Pascack Valley was founded in 1923, when 10 families purchased a storefront in downtown Park Ridge. Since the late 19th century, the […]

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