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October 12, 2026
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News about Westwood, N.J.

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 […]

Westwood Avenue in downtown Westwood will be closed between Broadway and Kinderkamack Road on Aug. 17 for milling and repaving work.
Pascack Press

Westwood Avenue to close Aug. 17 for paving work

August 10, 2026 Pascack Press

WESTWOOD, N.J.—Westwood Avenue will be closed to all vehicle traffic between Broadway and Kinderkamack Road on Monday, Aug. 17, from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. for milling and repaving work […]

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 […]

Coach Jimmy Wagner - Mikey Koz photo
In My Experience

In My Experience: Jimmy Wagner on ‘What boxing taught me about uncertainty’

August 6, 2026 Pascack Press

By COACH JIMMY WAGNERSPECIAL TO PASCACK PRESS TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON, N.J.—As a young man, I was described as mentally wayward, nervous, scared and traumatized. What I eventually learned was that […]

Westwood Troop 350 Eagle Scout Nicholas Doell cuts the ribbon officially opening the borough’s pilot compost program, the culmination of nearly a year and a half of planning and construction. From left are Claudia Gonzales-Doell, Council President Lauren Letizia, Dominick Paniscotti, Nicholas Hawrylczak, William Harrahy, Doell, Mayor Raymond Arroyo, Councilwoman Erin Collins, Councilwoman Beth Dell, and Keith Doell. Joann Paniscotti photo.
Pascack Press

Scout opens door to borough compost program

August 4, 2026 John Snyder

WESTWOOD, N.J.—What began as an Eagle Scout project has become a new community sustainability initiative in the borough. Nicholas “Nico” Doell officially opened the borough’s pilot compost program with a […]

Westwood historian Helen Whalen
Back in Time

Westwood historian Helen Whalen honored posthumously as Hometown Hero

July 31, 2026 John Snyder

HACKENSACK—Among nearly two dozen recipients honored at Friday’s Fifth District Hometown Heroes ceremony at HACPAC, the Hackensack Performing Arts Center, was the late Helen Whalen, a longtime volunteer with the […]

The Counterfeiters
Pascack Press

Rain postpones Westwood summer concert — The Counterfeiters move to Aug. 4

July 27, 2026 Staff

Westwood’s Summer Concert Series is getting another weather-related delay. The Recreation Department announced that Tuesday night’s scheduled performance by The Counterfeiters has been postponed until Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 8 p.m. at Veterans Memorial […]

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