Are the Borgs still proud?

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It's hard to imagine how the Borg family still could be proud of The Record of Woodland Park. The former Hackensack daily has moved out of Bergen County and largely abandoned readers who could once count on it for news of their towns.

Does Malcolm A. Borg, Stephen A. Borg and Jennifer A. Borg even read the paper? They seem to have been working at cross-purposes in the last few years.

The spoiled siblings -- he's the publisher and she's vice president and general counsel -- engineered the abandonment of Hackensack, slowly moving production of their two daily papers and then a downsized staff out of the city. The elder Borg, chairman of North Jersey Media Group, has insisted in keeping his office in the old headquarters building and seems determined to be carried out of 150 River St. feet first.

Today's front page carries only two stories -- neither of which seems worthy of Page 1 play. The DNA identification of a Cresskill woman missing 10 years leads the paper, but the story doesn't explain why it appears more than six weeks after the I.D. The rest of the page is devoted to purchase of two steel shipping containers -- just two -- for use as housing in Haiti.

Local is filled with court, crime and fire news -- what passes for local news these days -- and a story on two northern Bergen towns concerned about trains blocking emergency vehicles, as if they are the only communities with that problem.

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You won't find any Hackensack (map) or Teaneck news, but Englewood reporter Giovanna Fabiano reports new Mayor Frank Huttle will form a task force to ask residents about programs they want. This in a wealthy community with separate elementary and middle schools for whites and for blacks and Hispanics, and no community center, unlike Fort Lee, which built a beautiful one several years ago.

This is Fabiano's second story about Englewood in two days. Wow. That's covering your town.