NORTHERN VALLEY AREA—Two years after suspending operations amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Pascack Press’s sister newspapers, Northern Valley Press and Northern Valley Press South, have returned to service.
Family owned and based in Westwood, The Press Group is merging its coverage of Closter, Demarest, Harrington Park, Haworth, Northvale, Norwood, Old Tappan, and Rockleigh — its north paper since 2008 — with that of Alpine, Cresskill, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, and Tenafly, its south backyard since Northern Valley Press roars back to life 2010, as one newspaper, Northern Valley Press.
The paper last ran March 16, 2020, with front-page pieces on a play at NV-Demarest; “Townhomes approved in lawsuit settlement” (also dateline Demarest); and, in a grim roundup we also covered in Pascack Press, “Emergency sees events cancelled, travel restricted.”
Now, a 40-page April 4 Northern Valley Press rolled off the press alongside our print run this weekend with a cover story on the seventh-graders of Northvale Public School getting their hands in the soil on March 16 at Closter Farm & Livestock Co. The kids volunteered to help get the farm ready for spring, leveraging what they’ve been learning in class about sustainability. (They also wrote about it for the paper.)
Also at the farm at the time: the team at Peppercorn Events in River Vale, there to learn more about where the food they prepare and serve comes from. We’ll feature that experience in our pages next week.
For more information, including cheerful hellos from advertising and editorial, call (201) 358-9500 or write northernvalleypress@thepressgroup.net. For Pascack Press, (201) 664-2105 or pascackpress@thepressgroup.net.