The December Council Work Session will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4. On the agenda is the hire of a Police Officer through the Intergovernmental Transfer Program and the Appointment of Borough Clerk.

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Bergenfield's annual Holiday Party and Tree Lighting will take place on Saturday, December 1, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Cooper's Pond. The event is sponsored by TD Bank in conjunction the Bergenfield DPW Employees Association, Bergenfield Recreation Committee.

The annual Veterans Day Service will be held this Sunday, November 11th at 11:00 am in front of Bergenfield Borough Hall. All veterans groups and residents are invited to attend. Please come out to honor all of those men and women who have served their country.

PSE&G has completed the majority of power restoration to throughout the Borough. They are now starting to focus on small pockets of power outages and individual locations.

Residents who have not yet had their power restored should contact PSE&G @ 1 800 436-7734 to make sure that PSE&G still has their location listed as NOT HAVING POWER.

Residents who still do not have power should also e-mail the Borough Administrator at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that he can also forward your outage information to PSE&G.

Grace Period for 4th Quarter Property Taxes has been extended to November 20, 2012 because of the extensive power outages, downed trees, road closures and other disruptions for the citizens of Bergenfield.

Public Tax Sale for Delinquencies will be held on December 18, 2012.

The Ethics Board hearing scheduled for Thursday, November 8, 2012 is cancelled and will be rescheduled.

In preparation for the anticipated Nor’easter storm expected to enter this area on Wednesday evening Nov 7th, the Borough and the Board of Education are once again opening a warming station at Roy W. Brown Middle School on S. Washington Ave. The warming station will open from 5 pm Wednesday evening to 6 am Thursday morning. Residents without power can go to the Middle School to warm up and to charge their various electronic devices. This is not intended as shelter.

For residents who need overnight accommodations due to a lack of power/heat, a shelter has been established at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute in Mahwah. Those who need to make use of this shelter facility are encouraged to take their own transportation to that location as the Borough has an extremely limited amount of fuel.  For those who cannot utilize their own transportation to get to the shelter facility, please call the Police department as soon as possible and we will attempt to arrange transportation for you.