By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Danny Cordeiro makes no bones about what he is. “I’m a soccer player,” said the North Arlington High School junior. “I’ve always loved soccer since I was little.” But lately, Cordeiro is proving that he is more than just a soccer player. He is showing off his talents [...]
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Real Estate Review: C21 Semiao agents named Five Star Professionals
May 29th, 2013 
admin Five Star Professional recently named Lyndhurst agents Teresa DaSilva Choinski and Gina Ghione as winners of the 2013 Five Star Real Estate Agent award. Choinski and Ghione appeared in a special section in the March issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine. Five Star Professional partnered with New Jersey magazine to find real estate agents [...]
Obituaries
May 29th, 2013 admin Steven Riley Steven Richard Riley, 59, of Lorton, Va., passed away peacefully on May 6 at home after a long illness. A celebration of his life will be held in both Virginia and New Jersey in June. Born in Newark, Steve grew up in Kearny, and graduated from Queen of Peace High School, where he [...]
Paroled killer in drug bust
May 22nd, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A 68-year-old North Arlington man, busted by Kearny police for alleged drug distribution, has turned out to be a convicted murderer who was paroled 17 months ago from a New York State prison, police reported. The suspect, identified as Kenneth Grochulski, was convicted in Manhattan in 1977 [...]
Hunt is on for serial bandits
May 22nd, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – In early February, two bandits held up a Kearny delicatessen at gunpoint, tied up the clerk and two customers with zip ties, and escaped with approximately $5,000 in cash. Within days of that heist, KPD investigating officers Sgt. Charles Smith and Det. Ray Lopes, noting similarities in [...]
Feeling about aid isn’t mutual for Kearny
May 22nd, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Frustrated by what it perceives as Harrison’s failure to improve its first-response capability to fires there, the Town of Kearny is sounding an alarm of its own. Last Tuesday night, May 14, Kearny’s governing body voted to cut back its mutual aid response to Harrison by sending only [...]
Giangeruso team wins by 3-1 margin
May 22nd, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – A slate headed by sitting Mayor Robert Giangeruso made a clean sweep in capturing all five seats in the May 14 nonpartisan Lyndhurst Township Commission election. The victorious commissioners, all of whom ran on the slogan, “Lyndhurst 1st 2013,” are: incumbents Giangeruso, a retired deputy police chief, [...]
One more year in Harrison for Lady Liberty
May 22nd, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – Lady Liberty Academy Charter School of Newark, which has rented space in the former Holy Cross parish school in Harrison the last two school years, is re-upping for a third year at the same location. The school was left without a home in summer 2011 after it [...]
Lyndhurst woman indicted in 2M bank fraud
May 22nd, 2013 admin A Lyndhurst woman was indicted last week for her alleged role in what U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman described as “a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme.” Under the indictment handed up May 15 by a federal grand jury sitting in Newark, Klary (a/k/a/ “Patty”) Arcentales, 44, was charged with four counts of bank fraud and [...]
Thoughts & Views: Still seeking answers, 4 decades later
May 22nd, 2013 admin It sounds like something from a “CSI” episode, but it’s not fiction. And though the story has no (apparent) link to the area The Observer covers, you never know. Over the course of 40+ years, people can move aound a lot. Old memories can resurface. Maybe someone knows something; something they didn’t even realize was [...]
