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 26 ISSUE 16
Happy 100th
JULY 4, 2022
UP FOR THE CHALLENGE Sisters raising funds for annual cancer bike-a-thon
HILLSDALE
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PROPERTIES EYED FOR BOROUGH REHAB List will go to Planning Board; a goal is to be ready when economy rebounds
BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF PASCACK PRESS
Woodcliff Lake resident Shirley Mariaschin is a centenarian! SEE PAGE 24
HILLSDALE
TWO DPW WORKERS HAILED AS LIFESAVERS DeGroat, Cooke earn a boroughʼs thanks in swiftwater rescue of man, 42
BY MICHAEL OLOHAN OF PASCACK PRESS
Two public works employees were recognized for “courageous and lifesaving actions” that both took to help pull a Hazelwood Avenue man to safety in late May after he entered Pascack Brookʼs swift currents and was swept downstream under the Patterson Street bridge. At the June 14 Borough Council meeting, DPW employ-
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Kelly McCullough, Karen McCullough Dell’Aglio, and Kathy McCullough-Widmer are raising funds in the community to let them participate in their 18th Pan-Mass Challenge vs. cancer. BY JOHN SNYDER OF PASCACK PRESS
even for a moment, Park Ridge triplets Kelly McCullough, Karen McCullough DellʼAglio, and Kathy McCullough-Widmer will be riding their bikes 83 miles in the next Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-aOT LETTING UP
5COURTESY PHOTO FROM A PREVIOUS PMC RIDE
thon that raises money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Aug. 6. Every rider-raised dollar goes to Dana-Farber. This will be the 18th year that the sisters will be pedaling with 6,800 riders in the PMC. They have participated in this ride in memory of their mother,
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Approximately 70 properties near and around the boroughʼs downtown will be reviewed and evaluated to find out if they meet any of the stateʼs statutory criteria as properties in need of rehabilitation. Thatʼs per a $12,700 conRELATED tract with DMR Architects that • Planners Borough Counquestion cil approved, council on 5-0, on June 14. redevelop plan H ow eve r, amendments the borough — Page 3 administrator told officials at a • Closed session July 6 mid-June meetover redeveling that the oper’s 250 properties — luxe apartidentified by lot ment plan and block num— Page 6 ber only — constitute an “initial list of properties” that can be added to or deleted from and that a final list will be based on the rehabilitation studyʼs findings. Borough administrator David
See PROPERTIES on page 284
MONTVALE WINS!
B ck in time...
Congratulations to the Montvale 3rd/4th-grade softball team, winner of the 2022 Park Ridge Pee Wee Softball Tournament.
100 years ago area residents gathered for a Fourth of July parade in downtown Westwood. The bandstand wasn’t finished yet but that didn’t stop organizers, from three towns.
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