News about Park Ridge, N.J.
Back in Time
The party’s at St. Mary’s
PARK RIDGE—The first week of August 1903, Park Ridge was the place to be in the Pascack Valley. Folks from all over flocked to the little town, then home to […]
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Mayor lauds law permitting water-filtration units on conservation lands
PARK RIDGE—Mayor Keith Misciagna is especially grateful for a new law, effective immediately, that will enable the borough to construct water filtration systems on municipal properties where construction was not […]
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Tri-Boro towns rally for more ambulance volunteers
PASCACK PRESS—A Woodcliff Lake councilman said that a consultant’s report on the Tri-Boro Volunteer Ambulance Corps — which serves Woodcliff Lake, Park Ridge and Montvale — made clear that the […]
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Valley got its tennis on in the 1930s
PARK RIDGE—Just look at those cars! This 1930s photograph shows the tennis courts that once stood where the Park Ridge firehouse does now, behind borough hall, on Park Avenue. These […]
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There’s no ferreting out the cause of rat romp
PARK RIDGE—An exterminator has eradicated a couple dozen rats from a two- block area around some North Avenue and Ridge Avenue homes and put an end to an “isolated” infestation […]
Community Voices
Opinion: Drones, stream stabilization, and the need for action
Special to Pascack PressBy Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo The NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has recently revealed new flood elevation maps that expand the flood areas, currently established by […]
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‘Stunned’ — Rats on their way out, mayor promises
PARK RIDGE—With brown rats apparently taking over parts of her Ridge Avenue neighborhood, one resident appealed to the Borough Council on June 27 for help to rid the area of […]
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Borough seeks $12M aid on Mill Pond dredge
PARK RIDGE—Borough officials have requested both federal and state funding — up to $12 million — to help subsidize the escalating cost of dredging historic Mill Pond, home to the […]
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Hillsdale kids of 1935 onward, upward
HILLSDALE—Hillsdale’s eighth-grade graduating class numbered 28 when this commencement photo was snapped in June 1935. The kids attended what was then called the Hillsdale Public School. Located at Hillsdale and […]
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Voices rise over surplus as council OK’s $24 annual bump
PARK RIDGE—The Borough Council approved a nearly zero increase municipal budget in early May by using more than $330,000 of municipal budget surplus funds to pay for most of the […]