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August 30, 2026
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Members of American Legion Post 153 raise the American flag as Boy Scouts salute during Park Ridge’s Sept. 11 Memorial Service at Veterans’ Park, Sept. 12, 2025. John Snyder/Pascack Press
Emerson

25 Years: Pascack Valley towns announce 9/11 remembrance ceremonies

August 30, 2026 Juliana Demarest

PASCACK VALLEY AREA, N.J.—Our communities are announcing ceremonies to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives. […]

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Westwood Cares seeks donations as emergency assistance funds run low

August 28, 2026 Pascack Press

WESTWOOD, N.J. — Westwood Cares is appealing to the community for donations as its funds for helping local residents facing financial emergencies run critically low. The nonprofit assists Westwood residents […]

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 […]

Michael Gray, Steve Guttenberg, and Christie Brinkley in Westwood. Courtesy photo.
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Borough stars with Guttenberg, Brinkley, family in ‘American Summer’

August 24, 2026 Michael Olohan

WESTWOOD, N.J.—A film that explores a life-changing summer for one youngster growing up in small-town America is the focus of a new movie by a borough native, featuring scenes shot […]

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 […]

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES—Members of Township of Washington Cub Scout Pack 228 gather with New Jersey Army National Guard personnel in front of a UH-60 Black Hawk at Memorial Field on Aug. 22. The helicopter landing and public display anchored “Scouts Take to the Skies,” a community event celebrating aviation, service and Scouting. | Photo by John Snyder
Park Ridge

Scouts, families delight as Black Hawk makes big entrance at Memorial Field

August 22, 2026 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—On a gorgeous summer Saturday morning, Memorial Field swarmed with families. Scouts clustered with friends. Parents readied their phones. Veterans, first responders, and community leaders scanned the […]

Featuring a view that looks up Third Avenue from Mill Street in Westwood, this postcard was mailed by a vacationer on Aug. 20, 1910. The sender tells a friend in Paterson, “I am having a very nice time. This is how the whole town looks‚ so clean and all one-family houses.”
Back in Time

A vacationer’s views in Westwood

August 15, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

In those years when warm weather brought scores of summer boarders to our countryside, thousands of scenes from the Pascack Valley appeared on postcards, like this one from Westwood. Views […]

Taste of Westwood returns after seven-year hiatus. The Friends fundraiser will bring restaurants, drinks, music, auctions to library, Park Avenue, on Sept. 27. Richard Frant photo.
Pascack Press

Taste of Westwood set to return Sept. 27

August 13, 2026 John Snyder

WESTWOOD, N.J.—A community favorite that disappeared when the world shut down is coming back — and the response suggests Westwood has been waiting for it. The nonprofit Friends of the […]

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 […]

No phone zone
Pascack Press

Westwood Regional extends bell-to-bell device ban to high school

August 10, 2026 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—Westwood Regional School District students will face a bell-to-bell restriction on personal internet-enabled devices when classes resume Wednesday, Sept. 2, with the district’s existing expectations for younger […]

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