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March 20, 2026
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News about Westwood, N.J.

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Alpine

Millions in road, safety funds headed to Pascack and Northern valleys under FY26 municipal aid

November 30, 2025 Staff

TRENTON—Gov. Phil Murphy has announced $150 million in Fiscal Year 2026 Municipal Aid grants, with 537 municipalities statewide receiving funding for road, bridge, safety, and quality-of-life improvements. Every municipality that […]

More than 300 turkeys were collected at the 33rd Annual Helping Hand Food Pantry Turkey Drive, thanks in part to student volunteers who helped unload and sort donations on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. John Snyder photo.
Emerson

Community generosity packs out Helping Hand Food Pantry at 33rd Annual Turkey Drive

November 24, 2025 John Snyder

HILLSDALE —Among a season of cheery and vital food drives in the Pascack Valley, the 33rd Annual Helping Hand Turkey Drive, held Saturday, Nov. 22 at Hillsdale United Methodist Church, was […]

Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill, who won the 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial race and has since resigned her congressional seat, has announced her transition team. That team includes Adam Gordon, executive director of the Fair Share Housing Center, who will help guide housing policy. Sherrill photo: NJ Monitor, via Creative Commons. Gordon inset via fairsharehousing.org.
Emerson

Fair Share Housing’s Adam Gordon named to Sherrill-Caldwell transition team

November 21, 2025 John Snyder

TRENTON—Fair Share Housing Center Executive Director Adam Gordon, long a prominent figure in New Jersey’s affordable housing battles, has been appointed to Gov.-Elect Mikie Sherrill’s transition team. The move places one of the […]

Westwood's Gale Herzing is a quarterfinalist in national "Fab Over 40" completion. Courtesy photos.
Pascack Press

Herzing advances to quarterfinals in national ‘Fab Over 40’ competition

November 21, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — Westwood resident Gale Herzing has advanced to the quarterfinals of the nationwide 2025 Fab Over 40 competition — a campaign that celebrates strength, resilience, and reinvention for women over 40 while raising […]

Westwood firefighter Bill Quinn Jr. returns his late mother, Mary’s, copy of a suspense classic to Washington Township Public Library staffer Susan Seligman, precisely 20 years past due, after finding it in his late father, Bill’s, effects. He’d have returned it sooner but he got caught up in the story. John Snyder photos.
Pascack Press

Library’s most overdue book returns, with stories

November 21, 2025 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—The premise, for suspense lovers, is impossible to put down. From the publisher: “Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at […]

Westwood resident Gale Herzing is a quarterfinalist in the 2025 Fab Over 40 competition, a nationwide fundraiser supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Courtesy photo.
Community Voices

Westwood’s Gale Herzing finds strength, confidence — and national recognition — in ‘Fab Over 40’ competition

November 17, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — For resident Gale Herzing, making the Top Five in the nationwide 2025 Fab Over 40 competition is less about titles and rankings and more about the message behind it: confidence, resilience, wellness, […]

From left: Chamber Vice President Anthony Rizzo, Technology Director Ralph Crespo, Citizens of the Year Peter Wells and Jennifer Keilly Errity, Treasurer Ken Baron, and President Tony Pallogudis at Seasons on Oct. 21. GPVCOC photo.
Community Voices

Errity, Wells inspire as Chamber Citizens of the Year

November 16, 2025 Pascack Press

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Nearly 200 community members, business leaders, and officials gathered Oct. 21 at Seasons Catering as the Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 51st Annual Citizens of […]

Wind-Advisory
Emerson

Wind advisory in effect through early Monday; gusts up to 50 mph expected

November 16, 2025 John Snyder

PASCACK VALLEY— Residents across the valley and much of northeast New Jersey are being urged to secure outdoor items and prepare for possible scattered power outages as a Wind Advisory remains in effect […]

These Westwood residents got more excitement than they bargained for when their carriage was accosted by highwaymen this week back in 1895: Charles C. Clark, Effie Clark, Francis Vela, and Mary Louise Vela.
Back in Time

130 years ago this week: Highwaymen in a buggy

November 16, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—This week we go back 130 years for a story about a group of Westwood couples who went out for a night of fun and found unwanted excitement at the […]

The US Navy F/A-18 E and F Super Hornet maritime strike attack aircraft was manufactured by Boeing and flew for the first time on Nov. 29, 1995. airforce-technology.com
Emerson

F-18 jets to overfly Pascack Valley Sunday for MetLife Stadium thrill

November 16, 2025 Pascack Press

Residents across the Pascack Valley may hear or see military jets overhead this Sunday and Monday as two F-18 fighter jets operate out of Teterboro Airport for a scheduled flyover […]

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