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Bergen County Players presents Last of the Red Hot Lovers, an uproarious comedy by Neil Simon, who won a 1970 Writer's Guild of America award for this, his ninth, of more than 30 classic stage plays.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and if you are still struggling on where to take your sweetheart out to dinner, why not stay local in River Dell this year.

Residents and preservationists lobbied before the Bergen County Historic Preservation Trust Fund advisory committee last week for money to be reallocated to the Hackensack Water Works in Oradell .

Just after the start of the school year, students, faculty and parents atA St. Joseph School of Oradell and New Milford learned they would be honored by the US Department of Education as one of 14 schools in the state to be named aA " National Blue Ribbon Schools ". A few weeks later, the school's PTO A presented Principal Colette Vail a wooden ... (more)

ORADELL - The borough's petition to change the funding formula for the River Dell Regional School District will be heard by the state Office of Administrative Law, the latest step in an ongoing dispute between Oradell and neighboring River Edge.

For all you history buffs, here's an interesting twist that came up last week during a hearing on whether to reallocate historic preservation funds that had been recommended for shoring up the Hackensack Water Works buildings in Oradell.

Across all grades levels in the three elementary schools in River Dell, anywhere from 50 percent to 75 percent of students were found to be advanced proficient in language arts and mathematics on the 2011 NJ ASK tests.A Students from grade three through six took the annual assessments in May of 2011.

Sheryl L. Cappa has been promoted to the position of vice president financial analyst at Peapack-Gladstone Bank.

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WhenA RiverDell Patch A launched in fall of 2011 in River Edge and Oradell, editors and freelancers ventured to local businesses in order to collect information for our directory.

A plan to reallocate $500,000 in historic preservation funds slated for shoring up the 130-year-old Hackensack Water Works plant in Oradell sparked an outcry Monday night from residents who want to see the site preserved.

All with a single three-letter word, the Hackensack Waterworks buildings could officially lose $500,000 in Bergen County Open Space funding to a proposed parking lot in Saddle River.

This weekend was as the Bergen County Players of Oradell take on Daniel Goldfarb's hilarious romantic comedy, "Modern Orthodox" as a young Orthodox houseguest upends the lives of an Upper West Side secular Jewish couple.

Bergen County Players of Oradell is currently presenting MODERN ORTHODOX, Daniel Goldfarb's hilarious romantic comedy about a young Orthodox houseguest who upends the lives of an Upper West Side secular Jewish couple.

While the Regional and Oradell school districts have decided to move their school elections from April to November, officials in River Edge are still undecided about Gov.

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Oradell officials are considering drafting an ordinance that, if approved by the council, would establish a new Historic Commission in the borough.

Despite concerns raised by board members that the floor vote did not allow for an appropriate public notice, the River Dell Regional Board of Education voted Monday by a 5-3 vote toA move the school board election to November and eliminate a public vote on the district budget, provided it stays withinA a state-mandated tax levy increase cap.

For nine years William Escobar and his brother Hugo have owned What's Cooking on Main Street in New Milford.