Pascack Press 1.1.24

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Emerson • Hillsdale • Montvale • Park Ridge • River Vale • Township of Washington • Westwood • Woodcliff Lake

PA S C AC K VA L L E Y ’ S H O M E TO W N N E W S PA P E R

VOLUME 27 ISSUE 42

Going places

JANUARY 1, 2024

HEADS UP ON A LIVELY 2024

Mike Olohan calls out leading town stories

PARK RIDGE

‘RIDES & ROADS’ AT DEAN MANSION JAN. 21

Automotive-minded gallery show and raffle benefits Tri-Boro pantry BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF PASCACK PRESS

Hillsdale’s Hurst, junior world champ in the 1500-meter freestyle. signs to swim for UT–Austin. PAGE 15

PARK RIDGE

COUNCIL LOCKS DOWN N. FIFTH STREET LAND FOR OPEN SPACE

$950,000 bond ordinance on 3.15 acres; move was decades in the making

BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF PASCACK PRESS

A long-sought tract of land on North Fifth Street has finally been acquired by the borough to be preserved as open space. After nearly two decades of on-again, off-again development plans and possible use as a multifamily affordable housing site, the Borough Council unanimously

See COUNCIL on page 244

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Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo and members of the governing body react as the fire department lowers the ball at Veterans Memorial Park, welcoming 2023 Celebrate Westwood-style. Photo Richard Frant/FrantVisuals. S WE WELCOME 2024 in

the Pascack Valley, our communities continue to deal with contentious and often costly issues, and even for regular Pascack Press readers, a few may come as a surprise. My continuing thanks to editor John Snyder for pruning my prose, and Kristin Beuscher, a former Press editor and our contributing columnist of “Back In Time,” and for all the readers who take the time to read our weekly newspaper, whether in

Reporter’s Notebook

By Michael Olohan

print or online, and weigh in with letters to the editor. 5PETER OLOHAN PHOTO

RELATED: Annual reorganization meeting schedules for our towns and boroughs. Get involved! PAGE 7 Without your readership—and letters and emails—we could not be the community newspaper we strive so hard to be. Most topics I discuss below have been reported on in articles over this past year, and can be found on our website— thepressgroup.net—or by doing

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A gallery show and raffle featuring photographs of collectible automobiles and the roads they travel is set for Sunday, Jan. 21 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the William H. Dean Mansion. Rides and Roads features a raffle to help benefit the Tri-Boro Food Pantry and an exhibit of photographs from resident Burton Hall. Hall tells Pascack Press some 30 photographs of classic cars and scenic byways will be included in the exhibit. He said raffle tickets will be sold and winners will get to choose from his photographs of vintage autos. The event will feature a fiveperson panel discussion on the history and culture of automobiles in American society. Attendees are asked for a donation to the food pantry: • Robert Austin, past Volvo director of marketing and advertising; director of Rolls-Royce Club of America, SCCA racer. • Fred Hammond, Porsche

See RIDES on page 64

NEWEST EMT

B ck in time...

The River Vale Volunteer Ambulance Corps welcomes its newest crew member, Brienna Krebs. PAGE 19

Intrepid newspaper publisher and Pascack Historical Society founder John C. Storms pens the following New Year’s essay in 1950, apt today as then. PAGE 4


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