Schools Archives — Page 16 of 61 — Pascack Press & Northern Valley Press

June 17, 2025

A new high school in Westwood

September 30, 2023 Kristin Beuscher

PASCACK VALLEY—They came from as far as Peetzburg. No, that isn’t a misspelling of Pennsylvania’s Steel City. Peetzburg, 110 years ago, referred to what is now a section of New […]

Changing the game for good: Valley’s Livvy Dunne owns her way forward

September 30, 2023 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY—Twenty-year-old Pascack Valley native Olivia Dunne, a former USA National team member and a standout Tiger gymnast at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, graces the October 2023 “Sports […]

Suggestions on safety at Washington school pick-ups, drop-offs

September 24, 2023 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Some half-dozen residents provided suggestions to township officials Sept. 18 to help improve safety and ease traffic congestion during drop off and pick up times at Washington Elementary […]

New principal, old principles

September 24, 2023 Staff

HILLSDALE—St. John’s Academy is off and running in a new school year, welcoming students new and returning. Summer is always a reminder of how thankful parents are for the amazing […]

New elevator proposed for firehouse, polling place

September 22, 2023 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—Borough officials said they hoped to obtain no less than $199,000 from an unused pool of Community Development Block Grant funds to allow them to install an elevator at the […]

Teachers’ union calls on Pontillo to return Garcia to BOE Negotiations Committee

September 21, 2023 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—Chris Pinto, president of the Westwood Education Association, has written an open letter to the Westwood Regional School District community, received here Sept. 14, “to publicly express our disappointment with […]

Westwood’s Lincoln School Days

September 8, 2023 Kristin Beuscher

WESTWOOD—The pupils in this early 20th century photograph are posing on the front steps of Westwood’s Lincoln School. All of the borough’s children through grade eight attended classes here starting […]

Referendum seeks $230K for school security boost

September 8, 2023 Michael Olohan

RIVER VALE—Voters will head to the polls Nov. 7 to determine whether the school board should appropriate $230,000 and hire three Class III officers, and an alternate officer, to provide […]

Hanging out at Tenafly’s first public school

September 3, 2023 Kristin Beuscher

TENAFLY—Can you imagine a scene like this taking place today? Kids are all over Tenafly’s first public school—and no safety nets in sight!—in this photograph taken around 1890. In keeping […]

Back to school in Hillsdale, 1933

September 2, 2023 Kristin Beuscher

HILLSDALE—Hopefully by now you have finished all your back-to-school shopping—but did you remember the argyle socks? We wonder how many of these children got new clothes before school started in […]

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