Columnist Kristin Beuscher looks back in time at the bygone days of the Pascack Valley and Northern Valley’s people and places.
WESTWOOD, N.J.—Years before cars, trucks, and SUVs had joggers fearing for their lives on our suburban streets, bicycles were the scourge of pedestrians in the Pascack Valley. After Westwood broke […]
ENGLEWOOD, N.j.—In the event of a personal injury, the players had all the bases covered. This week back in 1911, Northern Valley doctors took on the area’s lawyers in a […]
ALPINE, N.J.—The historic Kearney House in the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey hosts a number of events each year when visitors can experience what life may have been like […]
HAWORTH, N.J.—Whether or not we know it, we’re all living by Robert’s Rules. The most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in America, “Robert’s Rules of Order” is a guide […]
CLOSTER, N.J.—This week we take a look back at the Closter School—later Village Middle School—which will soon get a new life as affordable housing. The Closter Public School at Durie […]
BY STEVE KELMANCORRESPONDENT CRESSKILL, N.J.—The second floor of the historic Tallman House in Cresskill will become home to a new museum, with a public open house set to take place […]
EMERSON, N.J.—We go back 125 years for a strange tale out of Etna—an earlier name for Emerson—that appeared in newspapers all over the country. Little rural Etna had fewer than […]
An Old Tappan husband and wife were seriously injured—but recovered—after their automobile was struck by a train at the Blanche Avenue crossing in Norwood on Sept. 27, 1929. Authorities regarded […]
Can you imagine Englewood ever looking like this? This photo goes back to 1880 and looks down Palisade Avenue, eastward across the railroad tracks. Back then, decades before cars would […]
TENAFLY, N.J.—We go back 80 years to the football season of 1939 for this photo of the Tenafly Tigers, snapped on the steps of their high school. Tenafly’s striped uniforms […]
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