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October 9, 2025
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Lead trainer Wes Wagner of the Bergen County Board of Elections (center) and Chairman of the Bergen County Board of Elections Richard L. Miller on Sept. 30 orient dozens of Westwood Regional High School students to facilitating the general election, which is Tuesday, Nov. 4. The work is nonpartisan and vital. John Snyder photo.
Emerson

Poll workers in training: Record number of teens step up to run the vote; county partners in civics program

October 3, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—More Pascack Valley-area high school students than ever will be working as poll workers on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Bergen County, said the Board of Elections […]

Township Clerk Sue Witkowski talks with Bergen County elections officials Debra Francica and Wes Wagner following their Sept. 24 presentation to residents on the upcoming Nov. 4 General Election, which includes the statewide race for governor. Mike Olohan photo.
Emerson

Voting starts in Pascack Valley; forum packed

September 28, 2025 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Voting in New Jersey’s Nov. 4 General Election is underway in Pascack Valley. Mail-in ballots have gone out — and are already coming back — while in-person early […]

Ian Weinstein, 17, of Hillsdale, brings his love of the game to Everyone Wins Baseball, a new program opening the field to all. Courtesy photo.
Hillsdale

Pastime at the right time: With ‘Everyone Wins Baseball,’ PVHS senior opens the field to those with special needs

September 27, 2025 John Snyder

HILLSDALE—Bottom of the first, sun on the grass, a kid digs in. Crack of the bat — a clean shot over the shortstop’s head. He’s hustling down the line, arms […]

Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce
Community Voices

Chamber cheering its 2025 Citizens of the Year

September 21, 2025 Staff

PASCACK VALLEY—The Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce has announced its 2025 Citizens of the Year, carrying forward a half-century tradition of honoring individuals whose service and leadership strengthen the […]

Affordable housing illustration.
Pascack Press

Council OKs redevelop look at 240, 258, 264 Broadway

September 20, 2025 Michael Olohan

WOODCLIFF LAKE—The Borough Council voted unanimously Sept. 15 to approve investigations into whether 240 Broadway, 258 Broadway and 264 Broadway qualify as “areas in need of redevelopment” after receiving a […]

Participants at the League of Women Voters of Bergen County’s Constitution Day program in Westwood, Sept. 17, 2025. The event drew a full house for a panel discussion on the state of American democracy. John Snyder photo.
Community Voices

League forum marks Constitution Day with urgent call to defend democracy

September 18, 2025 John Snyder

WESTWOOD — Billed as a Constitution Day celebration, the League of Women Voters of Northern Valley’s Sept. 17 forum in Westwood quickly became a pointed call to defend democracy. League president […]

Community Voices

Officials consider next steps on deer management

September 17, 2025 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—Local mayors and other public officials turned their attention to a topic close to home: the Pascack Valley’s growing white-tailed deer population — and what to do about it. […]

Emerson

Towns awarded nearly $900K in open space funds

September 7, 2025 Michael Olohan

HACKENSACK—All eight Pascack Valley towns and six of 13 Northern Valley towns will share nearly $2 million in Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund 2025 allocations, according to a public notice […]

The Woodcliff schoolhouse opened 130 years ago this week, on Sept. 9, 1895. The borough had broken off from Washington Township just a year earlier. Designed by an architect who also became the first mayor, the building was constructed with stones gathered from the surrounding fields of the farming community. Pictured here are teachers and several students on the front steps, circa 1905.
Back in Time

Woodcliff schoolhouse, hewn from local stone, still serves

September 7, 2025 Kristin Beuscher

WOODCLIFF LAKE—On Woodcliff Avenue surrounded by a modern middle school campus, Woodcliff Lake’s little stone schoolhouse offers a lesson in longevity. It’s the oldest continually operating school building in Bergen […]

Community Voices

Pascack Valley towns join forces to mark America’s 250th anniversary

September 5, 2025 John Snyder

PARK RIDGE—Three Pascack Valley boroughs are joining forces to help mark the nation’s 250th anniversary — the nation’s semiquincentennial — planning a year-long slate of events that will tie local […]

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