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August 20, 2026

Allison “Allie” Polyniak advances the ball for Pascack Valley during her senior season. Polyniak was named to the United Soccer Coaches 2025–26 High School Scholar All-America Team. Courtesy photo.

PV’s Polyniak earns national scholar-athlete honor

August 10, 2026 Staff

HILLSDALE, N.J. — Pascack Valley High School graduate Allison “Allie” Polyniak has been named to the United Soccer Coaches 2025–26 High School Scholar All-America Team, recognizing her achievements in the […]

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 […]

Youth volunteers with Solis and Luna Arts recently brought a therapeutic music program to North Cliff Elementary School, sharing performances designed to use music as a way to connect, inspire, and bring comfort. Courtesy photo.

Back where it began: Young musicians return to North Cliff school to share the joy of music

August 3, 2026 Staff

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS—The young musicians from Solis and Luna Arts did not have to travel far to find an audience that mattered. They simply returned to where many of their own […]

Community mourns Aidan Beahm, 29; services set for July 29–30

July 26, 2026 Pascack Press

WESTWOOD, N.J. — Aidan James Beahm, a Westwood resident and Pascack Valley High School graduate remembered for his humor, intelligence and kindness, died unexpectedly July 21. He was 29. According […]

Christine Pollinger, assistant principal of Pascack Hills High School since 2019, will become the school’s next principal on Aug. 1. Her appointment was approved by the Pascack Valley Regional High School District Board of Education on July 15. Pollinger brings nearly 30 years of experience in education, with expertise in neuroeducation, school climate and instructional innovation. Courtesy photo.

Christine Pollinger new principal at Hills

July 26, 2026 Pascack Press

MONTVALE, N.J.—Superintendent of Schools Dirk Phillips tells Pascack Press he’s pleased to announce Christine Pollinger, assistant principal of Pascack Hills High School, as the next principal of Pascack Hills High […]

Current and former Hillsdale Board of Education trustees and district administrators gather beside a signed steel beam marking a construction milestone in the renovation of George G. White Middle School on Friday, July 24. From left are School Business Administrator Sacha Pouliot; former trustees Nicole Klas and Shane Svorec; trustee Sal Sileo; board Vice President Justin Saxon; board President Kevin Donatello; trustees Kathleen Puerta and Michael Kenduck; former trustees Kathleen O’Flynn and Leta Gordon; Superintendent Robert Lombardy; and Principal Jaclyn Derwin. John Snyder photo.

Building for the next 100 years: George G. White project marks milestone with ceremonial beam signing

July 24, 2026 John Snyder

HILLSDALE, N.J. — Their names will soon disappear inside the walls and roofline of George G. White Middle School — but they could remain there for the next century. Current […]

BUILDING FROM SCRATCH: Woodcliff Lake resident Ted Evans will lead Caldwell University’s new women’s flag football program into its inaugural season in spring 2027. Evans founded the Paramus High School flag football team in 2023 and guided it to two Super Football Conference playoff appearances.

WCL’s Evans is Caldwell University head flag football coach

July 13, 2026 Pascack Press

CALDWELL, N.J. — Ted Evans, a longtime educator and coach at Paramus High School, has been named head coach of Caldwell University’s women’s flag football program, Assistant Vice President and […]

“We are your ‘parents’ of the building” — On the ground with district custodians, who could lose jobs in budget squeeze

July 10, 2026 Pascack Press

BY MAYA ZISLINSPECIAL TO PASCACK PRESS MONTVALE, N.J.—As costs continue to rise at school districts across New Jersey, the Pascack Valley Regional High School District is weighing whether outsourcing custodial […]

Asbestos remediation at George G. White Middle School is “conditionally complete,” Superintendent Rob Lombardy told residents May 2, though additional areas may still require attention as demolition continues inside the century-old building. Michael Olohan photo.

Remediation tops $216K on school overhaul

June 27, 2026 Michael Olohan

HILLSDALE, N.J.—School trustees approved two new charges June 22 for environmental testing and asbestos abatement at George White Middle School, adding about $2,000 and bringing total extra environmental cleanup and […]

Top to bottom and left to right: Grace Noonan, Sagred Piatt, Edward Hatten, Henry Wilke, Margaret Marshall, Myrtle Engle, Edmund Brennan, Ronald Busse and Edward Emerick; in the bottom row, Anna Bellefori, John Marshall, Jack Eldridge, Robert Bates, Edward Birdsall, Peter Belnay, James Davis, Marcel Bonhote, Samuel Peskanowitz, and Albert Collina. Pascack Historical Society’s John C. Storms Museum

Meet Montvale’s Teens of the (Nineteen) Twenties

June 21, 2026 Kristin Beuscher

MONTVALE, N.J.—Bobbed hair, knickers, and knee socks were the height of middle-school fashion when Montvale’s seventh and eighth grades posed for this photograph outside the borough’s grammar school in the […]

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