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🌱 Patch AM: How Westwood seniors can sign up for new free fitness classes
And check out Nyack Famous Street Fair, Sun. Oct. 11, Over 300 Exhibitors, Downtown, Nyack, NY on the Westwood Patch calendar

Greetings Westwood! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How Westwood seniors can sign up for new free fitness classes
Also on today's calendar: Nyack Famous Street Fair, Sun. Oct. 11, Over 300 Exhibitors, Downtown, Nyack, NY and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Sunday: Tropical Rainstorm Isaias, with a high of 62 and low of 55 degrees.
- Monday: A couple of morning showers, temps: high: 73, low: 56.
- Tuesday: A passing afternoon shower, with a high of 73 and low of 61 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Recreation adds fitness classes for adults 55 and older (thepressgroup.net) — Westwood residents 55 and older can now join two new Forever Young fitness options, including a free men's strength, balance and mobility class at the Westwood Community Center. A low‑impact water aerobics series is also available nearby in Township of Washington, with a small fee for nonresidents. Registration is required in person on weekdays at the community center.
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Westwood
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★ Featured events ★
- Nyack Famous Street Fair, Sun. Oct. 11, Over 300 Exhibitors, Downtown, Nyack, NY →
Nyack
10:00 am - Parlance Chamber Concerts Presents the Viano String Quartet →
West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 S Monroe St, Ridgewood
4:00 pm - Ridgewood Actors and Playwright Bring Timely New Play, From America, With Love, to Off-Off Broadway →
28th Street Theatre,
5:00 pm - Columbus Day Free SAT Event →
Sylvan Learning of Park Ridge,
10:00 am - Free Reading & Math Assessments →
Sylvan Park Ridge, 184 Kinderkamack Rd, Park Ridge
2:00 pm - Overtures - Cold Chocolate →
Rockland Conservatory of Music, 45 S Main St, Pearl River
7:00 pm - JTCC Hackensack Culinary Medicine Kitchen →
John Theurer Cancer Center Culinary Medicine Kitchen 92 2nd St, Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601,
1:00 pm - Exit Strategies for Business Owners →
il Tulipano, 1131 Pompton Ave, Cedar Grove
6:00 pm
Sunday October 11
Monday October 12
Friday October 16
Saturday October 17
Wednesday October 21
Wednesday November 4
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Other local events
- Columbus Day - Borough Offices Closed →
Westwood, NJ Calendar Westwood, NJ 07675
8:30 am - Shade Tree Advisory Committee Meeting →
Borough Hall, 101 Washington Avenue, Westwood
7:00 pm - ND On the Road - Notre Dame Program (NVOT Auditorium)
Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, 140 Central Ave, Westwood
7:00 pm - Fall Art + Makers Market →
877 Prospect St, Glen Rock
11:00 am
Monday October 12
Tuesday October 13
Sunday October 18
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🗞 Nearby News
Hillsdale
- Popular grocery chain to close 2 New Jersey stores, affecting more than 100 workers (newsbreak.com)
Oradell
- NJ Transit Bus Crashes Into Englewood Home Before Dawn, Injuring Driver and Damaging a Newly Landscaped Yard, Driveway Vehicles and Part of the House (centralrecorder.com)
- New Jersey High School Football: Paramus Catholic upends No. 2 Bergen Catholic (on3.com)
- A Yard of Many Moods (healthandlifemags.com)
Paramus
- District 15Fifteen, Vermella Paramus add new retail tenants (njbiz.com)
- Former REI and Red Robin Site in Paramus to Become 426 Apartments (jerseydigs.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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