Irene Almeida Irene Almeida (nee Moraes) died on April 15in St. Barnabas Hospital. She was 81. Born in Newark, she lived in Kearny before moving to North Arlington 15 years ago. Arrangements were by the Armitage and Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove Dr., Kearny. A funeral Mass was held at St. Stephen’s Church, Kearny, followed [...]
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Fraud charges are family affair
April 17th, 2013 
admin LYNDHURST — A Lyndhurst businessman and family members have been criminally charged in an alleged scheme to defraud homeowners. In a statement released April 8, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced the arrest of Adan R. Cueva, 31, along with his brother Angel C. Cueva-Castro, 26, and his father, Adan L. Cueva, 57, all of [...]
Can you spell ‘busted’?
April 17th, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – If you had occasion to drive or walk along Elm St. between Midland and Oakwood Aves. recently, you had to have noticed the illiterately obscene graffiti defacing multiple homes. Siding, retaining walls, garage doors, etc., on both sides of the block had been spray-painted with meaningless scrawls [...]
Fire death ruled accidental
April 17th, 2013 admin HARRISON – The death of an elderly woman at a Harrison fire scene last Monday, April 8, has been characterized by fire and law enforcement officials as a tragic accident. That was the conclusion reached by investigators from the state Division of Fire Safety, in consultation with the Harrison fire official and the Hudson County [...]
EPA working on mudflat plan
April 17th, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – By month’s end, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expects to complete a design plan for purging a 5-acre section of toxin-laden tidal mudflats alongside Riverside County Park in Lyndhurst, said Ray Basso, director of the Lower Passaic River Cleanup Project. That would be the first phase [...]
Recalling local hero & national tragedy
April 17th, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent NUTLEY– On the morning of April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher (SSN 593), one of the U.S. Navy’s then relatively new fleet of nuclearpowered submarines, was conducting deep-diving trials 220 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. On the surface, the ship USS Skylark maintained radio communications with the [...]
Crumbling factory too close for comfort
April 17th, 2013 admin By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A distraught First Ward resident appealed to the Kearny governing body last Tuesday night for help. Joaquim Ponte said he lives at the lower end of Johnston Ave., with only a narrow alleyway separating his neat two-story home from the rotting former William Pries Iron Works building at [...]
A mile of meadows goes up in flames
April 17th, 2013 admin By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY — A stubborn brush fire, fanned by strong winds, destroyed a large swath of the Kearny meadows last week and felled two firefighters, who required treatment for heat exhaustion. The Kearny Fire Department was assisted by units from four other companies and by the Kearny Police Department in [...]
Thoughts & Views: A story at any cost? No thanks
April 17th, 2013 admin There is one aspect to a job in journalism that I have never quite understood, and with which I have never been comfortable. I’m talking about the ghoulish pursuit of a) crime victims, b) accident victims, c) the families of crime victims or accident victims, and the worst d) the families of murder victims — [...]
Correction!
April 17th, 2013 admin Last week’s story about neighbors up in arms about a development proposal that would replace a vacant Belgrove Drive dental office with a two-family home incorrectly reported that the dentist who occupied that office had passed away. Dr. Charles Bridges is alive. We regret the error.
