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May 11, 2025
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Coronavirus

The Coronavirus Worldwide Pandemic, or the spread of the COVID-19 virus, has made its way to New Jersey in March 2020. With exponential spread of the virus expected, the whole of society has been asked to take precautions to slow the spread, including social distancing, limiting large gatherings, washing hands and staying home if you are sick. This page features information curated and reported by Pascack Press and Northern Valley Press journalists. For Centers for Disease Control updates, go to: cdc.gov/coronavirus. For New Jersey info, go to: nj.gov/health.

Pascack Press

Moderna vaccine booster offered April 6 in Waldwick

April 1, 2022 Michael Olohan

PASCACK VALLEY AREA—Booster doses of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine will be available Wed., April 6 at the Waldwick Health Clinic for individuals with immune deficiencies and adults 50-plus who have received […]

Hillsdale

Divided school board retains employee vaccination policy

March 12, 2022 Michael Olohan

MONTVALE—A split Pascack Valley Regional Board of Education failed to pass an updated school employee vaccination policy at the Feb. 28 meeting, a move that leaves the original policy in […]

Pascack Press

Trustee apologizes over ‘misunderstanding’ on Brown v. Board

March 11, 2022 Michael Olohan

WESTWOOD REGIONAL DISTRICT—A trustee’s remarks at a late January school board meeting — tying then-district policy on unvaccinated students to the 1954 court decision that ruled segregation of Black students in […]

Pascack Press

Masks soon ‘a personal choice’ in school

February 11, 2022 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Westwood Regional School District Superintendent Jill Mortimer wrote families in Washington Township and Westwood on Feb. 7 to note that, in light of Gov. Murphy’s announcement the same […]

Schools

WWRSD dropping quarantine/Test to Stay for unvaxxed/asymptomatic on Feb. 14

February 11, 2022 John Snyder

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Given the downward local trend of the pandemic, Westwood Regional School District superintendent Jill Mortimer says she’ll no longer require unvaccinated, asymptomatic students/staff to quarantine or Test to […]

Pascack Press

Test to Stay at WWRSD: New rules could keep more kids in class

February 4, 2022 Michael Olohan

TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON—Days after Westwood regional K-12 trustees offered contrasting views on the district’s quarantine protocols for the unvaccinated and un-boosted, newly appointed superintendent of schools Dr. Jill Mortimer wrote […]

Emerson

Covid booster, third dose at Dec. 13 clinic

December 12, 2021 Michael Olohan

EMERSON—A Covid-19 vaccine clinic for booster doses and third doses of the Moderna vaccine will be held Monday, Dec. 13 from noon to 2 p.m. at Emerson Senior Center, 20 […]

Pascack Press

Vaccine champion Arroyo aims to inspire amid Covid recovery

November 9, 2021 John Snyder

WESTWOOD—Mayor Ray Arroyo, one of the valley’s most visible and engaged champions of vaccines in the fight against Covid-19, is fielding messages of love and support after he recently tested […]

Hillsdale

Student trips abroad uncertain; BOE delays vote

October 15, 2021 Michael Olohan

MONTVALE—Under pressure from parents and an Italian teacher at Pascack Valley High School, Pascack Valley Regional High School District school trustees decided Oct. 11 to table a resolution that would […]

Pascack Press

District backs state in policy requiring vax for employees

October 1, 2021 Michael Olohan

Correction: Due to a reporting error we gave an inaccurate account of the vote. Looking back at the meeting video, we revised this web story on Oct. 4. We apologize […]

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