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Catch that holiday spirit at Westwood Community Center

December 18, 2021 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—The holiday spirit has taken over the Westwood Community Center as residents came together to participate in art, crafting, food pantry donations and the reprisal of the Recreation Department’s Holiday […]

Do district teachers, parents want armed guards?

December 18, 2021 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Preliminary and unofficial results from a Westwood Regional School District survey on hiring special law enforcement officers — known as SLEOs — for each of six district schools […]

Home for the Holidays ’21: Westwood brings the valley back to town

December 13, 2021 Staff

BY MICHAEL FITZSIMMONSFOR PASCACK PRESS WESTWOOD—Westwood’s Home for the Holidays celebration made a triumphant return Saturday, Dec. 4 — a spectacular and mild evening with a huge turnout. More than 30 […]

Volunteers power Parkside Church’s hot meal program

December 4, 2021 Staff

WESTWOOD—Saying that it is estimated that 1 in every 10 residents of Bergen County are food insecure, Parkside Community Church elder and food pantry coordinator Lisa Bontemps told Pascack Press […]

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BOE drops prohibition on dual service

November 27, 2021 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—The Westwood Regional Board of Education voted, 5-4, to allow its members to also serve as officers in volunteer parent organizations — such as PTOs, PSOs, clubs, Little […]

Judge: Recount in Westwood Council race on Nov. 30

November 25, 2021 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—State Superior Court Judge Estela M. De La Cruz has ordered a recount of the borough’s Nov. 2 municipal election, finding cause and no objections in a petition filed by […]

Back in Time: Farmers flock to Westwood at Thanksgiving

November 20, 2021 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—This week we go back a century to a much different Pascack Valley — one in which a good portion of the land was still occupied by farms and the […]

Student injured; police probe threat at Westwood HS

November 18, 2021 John Snyder

WWRSD—Police are investigating an alleged threat made against Westwood Regional High School, and the school community is reacting after a student was injured in a campus altercation. That’s according to […]

District offers parents opt-out on some health education

November 18, 2021 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Nearly a dozen parents had made inquiries or opted children out of some health lessons as of Nov. 16, after the Westwood Regional School District wrote K-5 parents and […]

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More housing, more classrooms: District, up against developments, mulls school bond in 2022

November 12, 2021 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Additional classrooms might be needed at schools in the Westwood Regional School District, which serves Westwood and the Township of Washington, as trustees look at new development rising […]