As we welcome the New Year, I offer my take on municipal topics sure to keep you reading the Pascack Press in 2025.
Be sure to watch for our imminent coverage of annual township and borough reorganization meetings, where many professionals and volunteers are tapped for public service. And at the Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce’s annual breakfast with the mayors later this month, attendees will hear hot-button reports from local leaders.
This year, our eight Pascack Valley towns will continue to confront tough fiscal choices and quality-of-life issues that could alter the character of the region. From affordable housing obligations and flood mitigation to rising property taxes and increasing school and municipal budgets, officials on town councils and school boards — some are veterans, and some are new to the dais — will be working hard.
And those local mayors, in Emerson, Hillsdale, Montvale, Park Ridge, River Vale, the Township of Washington, Westwood, and Woodcliff Lake, plus Old Tappan and Oradell, comprise the Pascack Valley Mayors Association, which will be rotating its leadership.
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